CHAPTER 19FEEL YOUR TOUCH
I want to know that when you walk away from me, you're that much more determined to come back. When you cry in my arms, you'll pull in closer toward me. When I feel the touch of your skin... I want you to feel me too because I've been standing beside you... and I've been standing for much too long. I desire to be with you.
In chapter nineteen of Cursed with Power, Celestria comes to realize a shocking new truth that awaits her in Grefin's manor. With reality, she must also come to accept some painful yet memorable past occurrences in her life. At last she may share a bond with someone close to her, but is it already too little too late? Has Celestria wasted too many years obsessing over the power she possesses? What is the point to looking back on old memories when they are long gone?
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Is this me? I thought. As I twirled back and forth with the dress, I felt foolish. Dyanna had always been the beautiful one; even Aunt Ilena had reminded me of that. The men pranced around her and offered her roses, while I walked ten steps behind her without receiving any attention at all. It had been that way ever since she was born, and after a while I had grown accustomed to it. The red hair that fell down my shoulders suddenly looked perfectly maintained. My green eyes, which I had always thought were dull, glistened with the dress.
“Everybody has always told me you can’t see love. When I look in your eyes, they stand corrected. Celestria, why must you have this effect on me?” Adam had once told me.
Backing away from the mirror, I reasoned with myself that I needed to leave. If I did not return to Alaire they would begin to wonder. I had already taken up enough time, but as I continued debating with myself I could not help but to think back to memories.
A great amount of thought and detail was put into the detail and the events that occurred within this chapter. Not only did Celestria face something difficult she felt she needed to be said, but she also had to admit to her readers the truth she hides in side. However, Celestria and the readers both are left with more questions. While a few truths are brought to the suffer, she is far from uncovering everything she desires to know.Despite an awkward situation at the end of the chapter, it is evident to both the reader and the author that there are many more chapters ahead. What lies in the future for Celestria Hale? What of Alaire Sencler? Their futures, like their hands, may or may not be intertwined. Only she can tell you what happens when next you read Cursed with Power.
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CHAPTER 18
What do you think happens? Can Alaire live?
I was unable to post yesterday because obviously it was Christmas, but I thought I'd post today and everyone would be understanding and forgive me.
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
Celestria knows that Alaire's condition is only getting worst, so she begins to think back to a time when she thought her life was ending. When she was so close to death but managed to escape it.
Sometimes you do not realize how much you care about someone until you're standing beside them... watching them take their last breaths. Until you feel a tear leaving your eye and can gasp what you are about to lose.
Welcome to Grefin's manor. Alaire told Celestria this was where she would find his friend, but what he did not mention was who Grefin was and why he was significant to what they hope to accomplish. She knows that the journey into Finton City keeps her from finding out Leal's wellbeing, but with Alaire's life on the line Celestria must set her priorities straight.
And so a strange silence enters the manor. It fills the rooms, leaves Celestria motionless, and lastly brings out the worst of Celestria's fears.
“You need to be wearing this, Alaire. I want Him to watch over you when I cannot.”
Alas I did not get much sleep last night. As you could have figured out from the title of this post, I felt extremely sick and spent most of the sitting up in bed, hoping I would soon feel better.
