Chapter 8: Expressions through words
Arsh jolted up, feeling disoriented. "Am I back?" he asked, his voice trembling.
A small caw came from his side. Marcid looked at him with ancient eyes and said, "Aye, thou art returned."
Arsh blinked, trying to steady his racing heart. "What happened? To you? Why are you talking so weird."
Marcid ruffled his feathers and cawed softly, "Thou art still in the witch’s abode. Yet the illusion hath ended, and the veil doth lift." He could not mention the witch’s nasty literature spell on him as punishment for not taking proper care of Arsh.
He slowly made his way down the stairs, collecting his thoughts and the events that unfolded in his sleep-like state, questions barging in but none getting out, he saw the witch sitting beside a window sill melancholy wrapped her face, as she stared outside the pouring rain.
"Why did you do it?" Arsh asked in a hushed voice not wanting to disrupt the silence.