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The fortuneteller looked at her, how long had she heard anyone calling her as the light witch. "Yes. The only last one of this world. Take a seat inside and we can talk."

Seoyeon straightened her back, pulling Jung Hwa's hand closer to wrap it around her neck, "When will Hwa's consciousness come back?"

"Soon," answered the fortuneteller and her eyes narrowed.

"Specifically I mean," Seoyeon asked, trying to be less rude by her words but she can't help to glare at the woman as she had caused Jung Hwa to go through so much pain earlier which she was not going to conveniently forget just because the fortuneteller gave her word to help them.

"You demand a lot of things. If he can take a better rest it will great for his body as well. It seems you don't notice it but he is quite spent."

The fortuneteller turned away immediately, entering and proudly she tipped her chin, gesturing the position where Jung Hwa could lay on. Seoyeon didn't want to strain Jung Hwa either and she entered the house, placing him on the floor.

She saw how Hwa's pale complexion looked a little more out of the color than usual, "What do you mean by spent?"

The fortuneteller heaved a breath, "As anyone could expect from kids, seems like he kept things from you. I looked through his memory earlier and caught some rather in new memory from him and there I saw how he used his vampire ability to flush out the poison that you suffered after a recent fight."

Seoyeon's gaze break from the fortuneteller back to Jung Hwa a little sigh escaped from her lips. While people look at him as a a crazy person, she knew it far better than anyone of how Hwa deeply care about the people around him although he didn't show it on the surface, it was quite clear by his actions that spoke volumes. Such as how he didn't want to tell her he had went to a great deal of pain to heal her without telling it for the fear that she would feel guilty.

Seoyeon took out the handkerchief from her pocket and dabbed it aside to wipe away the sweats that formed on his sculpted forehead. "You are sillier than me and to a fault."

After taking of the coat which she wore and sheltered Jung Hwa from the color with it, Seoyeon came to sit before the fortuneteller, not too far from Jung Hwa as she cannot leave far away from him.

"Do you remember anything about your past? Other than your death," she questioned and the fortuneteller took out some tea. At first she offered to help the woman but she raised her hand and although the fortuneteller appeared to be calm, she had a pride in her that maybe was larger than even Jung Hwa's. Therefore to not incite or ruffle the woman's feather in the wrong direction, Seoyeon chose to sit and not offer any more help.

"Nothing. Though I remember it clearly of how there were people talking beside my ears. They shouted: 'The Queen's hound has appear!' Which I would decipher that hound is referred to Haneul."

A silence passed by Seoyeon. She had only seen perhaps the opening part of the tragedy in Haneul's life. But she knew how evil the Queen was yet why would Haneul agree to kill the light witches? But then she remembered that in that time, witches are very narrowed upon. 

"Then do you know her personally?" Because from the way the fortuneteller speak it appeared as if they knew each other to a certain extent.

The fortuneteller's lips thinned over her harmless question, "I might not remember it but I can fully feel it in me that we once know each other. Before my death, I felt betrayed, sad, and anger. My memories might have vanished, leaving only the last moment before my death but I won't forget the indignation I felt that day. It haunts me up until this day."

Seoyeon then wondered what relationship Haneul shared with the light witch, "Do you maybe remember what was you name in the past?"

The fortuneteller when quiet, her brows drawn as if she was pulling something that had been stored deeply in century, pulling it out was difficult until she finally recalled what seems to be the answer, "No, the state was chaotic at the time I can barely hear things around me and no one called my name but I remember my husband's name."

"What is his name?"

"Han... I remember it being Han Anhye."

Seoyeon's eyes widened. The name tugged a memory in her and she could have sworn to hear the name before. Somewhere.... 

"The hunting game!" Seoyeon whispered-yelled to herself. Now she remembered. It was during the time when Haneul wanted to spent her time with Min Hyuk when her mother had introduced her to the man.

They didn't seem to have a bad relationship and to what Seoyeon remembered, Han Anhye was a human and Haneul who had introduced each other must have been aware of this but she still went for the massacre? 

Why was the largest question to Seoyeon in this moment. 

Seoyeon refused there was no reason for what Hanaeul had done and her guts tell her that the Queen had a hand in this accident.

She then recalled again her very first lucid dream where she saw people in haste searching for a coffin in the forest, they mention the Queen instructed them to find the coffin.

Whose coffin was it?

"I need to make sure of one thing," Seoyeon said, looking at the fortuneteller, "was Haneul the person who killed your husband?" 

"She was and also she killed my child."

Everything was amiss, thought Seoyeon and she heard the fortuneteller speak again, "What do you plan to do now? I know that everyone must be hot on your tail now. My words may sound like a repetitive record which you already understand, but remember that there are people who protect you and you cannot cost the life of people like them. They are precious."

"I am aware," Seoyeon answered resolutely, "I have thought of what to do next. As you said it is my turn to protect them with the power I am blessed with."

"Blessed," the fortuneteller repeated, her lips gape. "Not a curse?"

"I can protect people with my power. It is unfair to call it curse," Seoyeon answer in a matter-of-fact tone. 

It was not an exaggeration that the catalysts was a ticking bomb of curse and being one who had experienced the extent of its curse, the fortuneteller would also call it as a curse and never a blessing. But Seoyeon was different.

Now that the woman noticed, she was not repulsed by her new-founded power even though it was so lethal and brought her too many misfortunes. She wondered if perhaps Seoyeon was the only ever first person to fully embrace her power instead of trying to suppress it.

Was that the reason why Seoyeon could control the catalyst's power? Unlike others, the girl was different.

"What plan do you have in mind?" The fortuneteller questioned. Just maybe, this girl could be the answer to her problem and end the loop of misfortune that chained her to this world.

Seoyeon was not aware of the fortuneteller's thought, "I wish to look back on the lucid dream which I have been dreaming."

"I thought you were going to learn your power and control it under you. Also you told me earlier to 'talk' with Haneul?"

"By seeing the lucid dream, I can achieve all of that. Even though I had only seen a little of Haneul's past, by watching her I can tell I will be able to learn how to use the power. No other vessels were able to control the catalyst's power but Haneul could and maybe there was a reason. Bu looking in the past, I would know the answer."

Seoyeon wondered to what extent would the fortuneteller helped her and how much could she took the privilege of the woman's help. 

She decided to test the water, "Can you help me to draw the lucid dream?"

The fortuneteller tapped her fingers to give crisp knock on the table, "I have tempered with people's memories once but for dream I have never tried it before."

And Seoyeon sighed. Was the only method left for her was to stay idle and wish for the lucid dream to come for her? Last time it took her more than two weeks to have the continuation and now time was expensive to her. She cannot wait for two weeks again, that is considering if the lucid dream would enter her sleep in the same pattern as before which Seoyeon doubted would follow as she wish. 

A tinge of pain came on her forehead then which came from the fortuneteller, "Don't worry, I said I have never tried but I am a light witch, the strongest of all. I can think of a way and try it. Speaking of which, do you know that the dark witches that had been roaming around doesn't actually exist anymore?"

Seoyeon raised both her brows, her head tilting to the side, "What do you mean?"

The fortuneteller had guessed this reaction of hers, sucking breaths to explain, "Someone have been passing false informations. Haneul slaughtered light witches but that wasn't the only colored witches she had killed. She hauled all the dark witches with her to death."

The informations were not adding up, "But they claimed to be the dark witches. If they are not... what are they?" 

"Simply a black witch. They are the lowest type of all colored witch because of their lack of magic. You have fought with them before and try to remember during those fight have they used power like I did?"

Now that Seoyeon tried to recall the fights she went through, though some black witches used magic, it wasn't something as lethal as the fortuneteller used and they always guarded themselves with weapons unlike the fortuneteller who seemed to confidently relay completely on her magic. 

"But why do they claim themselves to be dark witches if they are not? So that they won't be looked down?" If so then how petty of them, thought Seoyeon.

"No, I ca tell that they doesn't seem to know this themselves believing that they were a dark witch. Possibly because someone above them had been the one who give this false assumption and title."

"Someone above them, the mistress," said Seoyeon, "I remember one of the witchess referred to someone who is superior than them and perhaps the person who had been controlling the group as the Mistress.. It must be that person."