Burning Soul

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Knock! The guard knocked on the cell doors waking up Ember and others, “Take this!”

He had a ruddy complexion and a wide mouth in which he had all the discoloured terrible teeth and they look unhealthy.

Saying so he slid in a plate, it was just as awful as the place. It was indescribable, the contents of the plate had long since cooked and now was just there!

A dry slice of bread that was covered in fungus with some good forsaken curry that didn't feel or looked like curry at all.

The bread had become soft and changed its colour. The mould itself had become fluffy. It had produced spores on it, which was typical of green-black colour…… And the curry provided contained a lot of unfresh vegetables which were usually firm and had turned squishy and soft; which was the sign that it was rotten. A foul and unpleasant smell was being emitted from the food and was completely unfit for consumption.

Just looking at it was enough to turn their stomach upright!

“It’s straight-up poison!” Aeneas warned everyone of the content!

“You tasted it?” Nuae asked him with a disgusted look! The smell had already turned his stomach, bitterness filled his mouth

The latter replied with silence!

“Can you please stop it! Get him out of here, he’s not waking!

His beats are slow and he’s breathing heavily! What’s happening?” Ember cried out.

“This bloody cell won’t break open!” Catherine used high magic trying to break open the door but resulted similarly.

The walls of the cell were crumbling, solid and grey in colour, the corners were sharp and straight. Everything inside was hard and cold. It also contained a wooden shelf, dirty blankets and a bucket. The stench is something they hadn't expected but should have; it was excrement, urine, sweat and vomit. The prisoners were all hacking and wheezing most were gaunt.

Someone who designed this jail cell, they sat in a clean office under the glow of the natural sun rays and used their God-given talents to create something so soulless as to constitute additional punishment.

“Luna!

Please!” She was her last hope!

She was barely able to breathe, her heart pounded, her chest tightened with fear, worry snaked through her, fear was hitting her like icy water.

“I can’t do much, but I’ll try to see what can be done!

Though this spell on the walls is nothing I can decipher, I’m sorry about that!” Saying this she jumped on Theo’s chest. As her paw touched his forehead a soft glow appeared on his face and his breaths became more normal.

“Huff!

That sucked too much of Mana! Let him sleep for a while!"

She took a breath of relief, her body now came to attention, she nudged her face slowly with her hands and looked at him tenderly with her deep eyes and stroked her hairs.

Just as she finished her spell, Himari jumped into the room from the Spirit realm.

She was having a slender body and was a dwarf in height. Her hairs were long, thick and dark brownish-white coloured. She had long, thin eyebrows and she had thick eyelashes. The unique factor in her face as she had eyes of a different colour each. The left eye had crimson red colour and the right one had a blue colour. She also had rosy cheeks and thin pink lips. She had worn red coloured double-layered fork with edges having black laces and a bonnet in ribbon-shaped fixed in the middle of her outfit.

“Wh…whaaa?” Looking at her pop out of thin air Ember was startled,

“Shhh!,

I know you are his companion! Let me help you with something in return for soothing his pain!”

She walked to the Plate of food that disgusted her, “Let’s make it edible!”

Saying this she began chanting, “I Thy Advent of My Master, with Thee Authority to Defy the Flow of Time, I hereby Command you!

Counter!”

As she finished her chant, a small circle that hosted many gears and three needles pointing outwards from the centre appeared below the plates in all their cells and emitted a soft glow!

The glow then engulfed the plate and contents within.

After a while, the contents were completely restored to their original state!

Golden bread appeared to have bloomed, its aroma conjuring the warmest of smiles. The bread had held onto the heat of its birth and had a springy softness. The bread had a crunch to the crust that brought a smile on their faces, and the crumb was that wholesome taste of rustic grain.

The curry looked appetising enough, it simmered to have the perfect thickness with just the right amount of richness and fat to make them lip-smackingly good. It contained a deep dark brown tinge which made the appearance of curry more desirable.

“This is….!” Not only Ember but almost everyone had a dumbstruck expression, “I’ll get going! I can’t stay like this long without him being conscious! See y'all” Greeting Ember she jumped back in the Spirit realm.

‘Umm, why does the Master have to be surrounded by so many girls!’ Ember pouted while thinking about her, but she and everyone were thankful for her as she filled their empty stomachs with fresh bread and delicious looking curry!

‘Time magic! What more will fate show us!’ Aeneas had a hint of a smile as he gulped on food.. .