Inside the room after taking a bath, Elliana bolted the door before she sat on the ground in the middle of the carpet with the ancient book she had hidden in front of her.
She took a deep breath and opened the page that she had read about recently but was too afraid to perform it.
'Do you think I can do it?' Elliana asked Circle, who looked uneasy themselves.
'It's dark,' They warned her.
'Will it ensure that my heart stops feeling things if I practice it?' Elliana asked, and Circe looked at their human counterpart with pity.
'We are not supposed to feel pity. It's not in our system,' Circe said collectively.
Elliana smiled. 'You are allowed to show me some pity when that's exactly what everyone in the universe has been showing me. I heard you shine the brightest in darkness. Let me use the darkness of my existence,'
Elliana closed her eyes.
The spell was written in some different language that she wasn't able to decipher.