Past life, A 47

I woke up well before dawn, it had to be this way in order to do my job well.

I took a bucket of cold water, and used it to take a bath, as long as I didn't catch pneumonia, this was the best method to wake me up.

I dressed in 3 layers of clothes, and hurried downstairs.

I take my little face shield, and run to the city gates, on this side of the gates there is still no one waiting, but I knew well that on the other side there should already be a long line of people.

When I arrive in front of the guards, they greet me.

(Guard) Good morning Leonora, early as always.

(Leonora) Good morning sir, is it long before the doors open?

(Guard) No, we are almost ready, we only need the boss's order.

(Leonora) Good, then I'm just in time.

I stand for a few minutes waiting, to kill time the guard checks my permit, and finally I hear movement at the top of the doors, and they finally open.

The guard gives me back my permit and lets me through.

(Guard) By the way, my wife asked me to put aside two of burnt milk and one of fruit, she has to pick them up just before lunch.

(Leonora) Two milk and one fruit, very well, I'll remember.

I cross the gates in silence, although I am the only one who leaves so early, there are already many people who already want to enter, the vast majority are people who live outside the capital, but had the good fortune to get a job inside the same, I know firsthand that the wages to foreign people is laughable compared to the people originally from here, but still, the salary is much higher than you would have in a job outside the walls, that's why people accept this lifestyle.

After I move away from the walls for a while, the picture changes completely, the poverty becomes more evident, really, I belong here more than inside the walls, since having run away from home, I am now just a commoner.

I push those thoughts away from my mind, and hurry to the market, if I want to be able to choose good things, I must be the first.

When I arrive, people were finishing setting up their stalls and arranging their merchandise, so I go from stall to stall choosing the best.

After almost an hour of shopping, my cart is filled with fresh fruit, eggs, a barrel of milk, a wheel of cheese, a leg of ham, and some meat for my lunch today.

I get ready to go back into town, so I get in the line of those entering, before long the captain of the guards calls me, and lets me skip the line.

(Captain) my daughters are going to pass by your post when school is over, please remind them to bring me a cheese and ham.

(Leonora) I always remind them, and whenever they leave they take it with them, but I can't assure their survival after they leave the stand.

(Captain) That pair of brats, let's see what excuse they give me this time, well, it doesn't matter, may you do well in your business.

(Leonora) Thank you very much sir.

When it finally finished dawn, I could return home, it is a little annoying and tiring to do this every day, but it's the best for my wallet.

Inside the walls there are also markets, where the servants of the nobles can go shopping, but the price is many times higher than in the outskirts, that's why I prefer to buy there, but being cheaper, the quality is also worse, that's why I have to get up so early to be the first to choose, the good things from the outskirts market are finished very early, and if I get to have something in bad condition in my business, most likely no one will go back to buy.

I take things upstairs to the second floor where I live, this is a semi-abandoned warehouse where the owners let me stay for a few lilies a month, renting a real house would completely break my budget, and I need a residence within the walls so the trade guild can issue me a permit to sell.

When I finish going upstairs, even though my body asks me to go back to sleep, I have many more things to do, I have to go and pick up my order of napkins, prepare the things to open the store, besides, I have to buy both flour and sugar inside the walls, since they don't sell sugar or wheat flour in the outskirts of the city.

I finish putting things away, and go back downstairs to go to the noble market.

Despite it's name, it's rare to see a nobleman here, usually they only send their servants to do the shopping, and very occasionally you see someone who came out of curiosity.

I enter a large store where I am frequent, and just after entering, an older and quite obese woman greets me.

(Owner) oh, good morning Leonora, what are you going to wear today?

(Leonora) good morning ma'am, the usual, a sack of sugar and a sack of fine flour, please.

(Owner) oh so soon? You seem to be doing quite well, now you buy from us 3 times a month, very good, I'll get it ready right away.

This woman laughs loudly, and taps me on the back, I laugh a little just for commitment, but I really don't like her, when I started the business, she was very contemptuous with me, now that my sales have increased and I have become a frequent customer is why she started to treat me well.

(Owner) Very well, give me a minute.

She turns away, as I know what she is going to do, I cover my ears just before she lets out a mighty scream.

(Owner) Marco!!!! Ezequiel!!! Dario!!! Stop slacking off and bring one of flour and another one of sugar!!!!

Far from slacking off, they were unloading a cart full of sacks, when they heard the powerful shout of their boss, two of them ran to the warehouse to bring my order, this woman just looked at me and smiled.

(Owner) sorry for the delay, but it is very difficult to find good employees these days.

I would rather say that it is more difficult to find bosses who are not trash.

(Leonora) Yeah, never mind.

After placing the sacks in my cart, the woman looked at her employees indignantly.

(Owner) Tell me, you ruffians, how can you expect a lady to carry something so heavy? You, please take the things to her store, and you, go back to what you were doing, to see if you can finish unloading them once and for all.

Needless to say, at first she would scold any of the three of us if we offered to carry my things.

I give my key to Marco, and he does me the favor of taking my cart to my store, while Ezequiel and Dario go back to continue unloading, and this woman takes me by the arm and takes me back.

(Owner) Come here, my dear, we have to finish the payment, and I have an order for you.

I go back to the store, and pay her, while a little girl with glasses counts the money, the owner hands me a bag with coins, and a paper with a list.

(Owner) Here, this is my order, I will send one of the orangutans to go get it.

She takes the paper, and I read it over, seeing the size of the list, anyone would think that she is going to buy for all her employees or maybe for her family, but thanks to Ezequiel, I could confirm that she locks herself in her office, and eats everything by herself, that's why even though I don't like her, she is still one of my best customers.

I say goodbye to the owner, and stop by the paper and printing store for my order of napkins, I pay without any problem, as I leave, I can't help but think about the unequal prices.

Everything I spent today at the outskirts market, I have just recovered with the order I just placed, and I just paid double in napkins alone, and more than twenty times in flour and sugar, I don't need to be a great mathematician or merchant to understand my savings by getting up so early and going to the outskirts market, I have no idea how expensive it would be to buy everything at the noble market.

On the way, I meet Marco, he gives me back my key, I thank him, and tell him that when they come by to pick up their boss's order, I will give them a free pair to eat between all of them.

I go back to my house again, and seeing that I finish earlier than I thought, I take the opportunity to get some sleep.

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(Customer) good, two of cream, one of burnt milk, and one of fruit please.

(Leonora) right away sir.

(Customer) hello again, 3 fruit ones please.

(Leonora) Coming right up.

(Customer) 1 of cheese and ham, be quick, I'm in a hurry.

(Leonora) Right away sir. (How rude)

(Customer) Good morning, I want to ....

I was in my store, and business was at its best, this hour after lunch was by far the most lucrative, but people always gathered and it was difficult for me to attend them, but as sales are so good, I'm already thinking of hiring an employee.

When I finally finish serving everyone, and things calm down, but in the distance I see the captain of the door coming, and his two daughters, that's why I throw some batter back on the griddle, and start preparing their crepes.

When they finally arrive at my station, I hand their crepe to the captain.

(Leonora) A ham and cheese one sir.

(Captain) oh thank you very much, I hope this one doesn't disappear mysteriously, or stolen by dogs.

His two daughters, puffing out their cheeks, and pouting, are also good customers, so I know their names are Rosa and Clavel.

(Rosa) Dad, for the last time, the dog thing was real, I swear that when we were on our way, a wild dog came and with one bite snatched your crepe.

(Captain) Aha, and when I asked for 3, 3 dogs came, didn't they?

(Clavel) no, that time we gave them away to a couple of hungry children we found on the road, you have always told us that we should be charitable with the less fortunate.

At that moment her sister pinches her and whispers.

(Rosa) Shhh, shut up, that's what we were going to say tomorrow.

(Clavel) ah right, that time it wasn't that, on that occasion we were going to say it to you ....

The captain who only continued eating in silence, limited himself to wiping his mouth with the napkin, and signaled me to prepare another one.

(Captain) Do they know that I am listening to them? Or do they think that age has made me deaf?

The two continued to make excuses for their father, and I prepared their crepes while I laughed under my breath.

When the sun was about to set, I was getting ready to lock up, I have to go to bed early to go to the market, the good thing is that I already have flour and sugar for a few days, and that will make things easier for me tomorrow.

While I put the lock on, I stop to think about how well I'm doing in this life, although after 47 attempts it was something logical, I still haven't made it to old age in any of them, but for now at my current 22 years, it's the farthest I've gotten, and modesty aside, the business is going so well, it's likely that I will become rich in the near future, with all that I save with my trips to the market in the suburbs, every day I see my bank account grow more and more.

Who would have thought that crepes would make me rich? The truth is that I would never have believed it, being an Otome game, there are many sweets and cakes that should not exist because of the medieval European theme, but curiously crepes do not exist, and the demand for sweet things is quite high here in the capital, that's why I've been planning this for a couple of lives, and things could not be better, now as long as the protagonist can defeat the final boss of the second game, everything will go smoothly.

When I finished closing, and I was ready to go home, I see an elegant carriage parked near my stall.

That's why I open the carriage as fast as I can, such an expensive carriage can only belong to a high-ranking nobleman, and they don't accept such cheap excuses as, "I just closed."

I light the fire to heat the griddles, and whisk the batter as fast as I can, I have jam left from various fruits, and a little burnt milk, so I pray I don't ask him for something I've run out of.

After a short while, a rather elegant man approaches my stall, by his clothes and by being the one who got off, I deduce that he must be a butler.

As he approaches, he looks at my stall, and makes the same gesture as if he's smelling shit.

(Butler) my lady wants one of those things you sell.

The plates were still cold, and he still hasn't finished with the dough, so I tried to make the most talk to save time.

(Leonora) Which ones, sir? I have sweet and savory crepes.

(Butler) Sweet.

Shit, I was hoping it would take longer to decide.

(Leonora) But what flavor? there is a great variety, I have seasonal fruit marmalade, burnt milk,....

(butler) whatever, but quickly.

(Leonora) But are you sure? Wouldn't you rather go and ask?

(Butler) Just do as I asked, my lady doesn't have much patience.

That man takes out a pocket watch, and looks at it while he looks at me out of the corner of his eye, from where I am I think I hear the sound of the gears, and every second I get more nervous.

I finished with the dough, but the firewood has not finished lighting, so I'm watching the iron and the man in turn, he in turn does the same with me and his watch, it would be a pretty funny scene if my own life was not at risk.

(Butler) How much longer are you going to keep me waiting? I've been here almost 5 minutes.

I don't know how to respond, as much as I tried to explain to him that he literally just reopened just to attend to his mistress, he will just take it as an excuse, so I guess I just have to resign myself.

(Butler) What's wrong? Are you not going to answer, or are you too stupid to attend to my request?

Am I really going to die for making a noble angry? For something so absurd?

(Leonora) Please, just give me a little time, just while you warm up the...

(Butler) What insolence to make me wait!! Don't you even know who I work for?

Honestly, I have no idea, but I'm going to add her to my growing list of people who have murdered me.

The man continued shouting at me, until a woman's voice was heard, which made him stop.

(Woman) What's going on? What's all the fuss about?

An older woman, very old, very, very old, appeared accompanied by a strapping young man on either side.

Her appearance, besides being almost a mummy, resounded money, each of her fingers had expensive rings whose individual value would exceed what I earn in a year, her ostentatious dress was embroidered in golden threads and inlaid with gems, and on her neck, there was a fox fur. That woman was smoking through a long mouthpiece, and after each puff, one of the servants collected her ashes with an ashtray.

(Butler) Lady Margot, my lady, I'm really sorry, it's this dirty country girl who refuses to attend to your request.

That woman looks at me and then sees my stall, I was terrified of what she would say, but when I opened my mouth, what came out of it really surprised me.

(Lady Margot) tell me Ronal, are you stupid?

(Ronal) eh I... Well...

That woman takes a long drag on her cigarette, and spits the smoke in his face.

(Lady Margot) let me answer for you, you are definitely stupid, can't you tell that the girl was already about to close? From your shouting I could bet that you haven't given them a chance to explain.

(Ronal) but I... but you... You ordered me to...

The woman shakes her head visibly disappointed.

(Lady Margot) go back to the mansion, we will talk.

That man looked quite devastated, and he didn't even go back to the carriage, he walked away, I have no idea where he might live, but I doubt it's nearby, honestly, I don't feel a bit sorry for him.

That woman hands her cigarette to one of her assistants, who takes care of putting it out, and with her hands free she comes closer to where I am.

(Lady Margot) I'm sorry for the inconvenience my employee caused you, I wasn't sure about your working hours, but if you're already closed, I'll come back earlier tomorrow.

Moved by her understanding, I decide to attend to her at once.

(Leonora) The truth is that when I saw you arrive, I hurried to reopen, I have everything almost ready to serve you, it's just a matter of getting my stove to turn on.

(Lady Margot) ohh, that's all? then no problem, Tobias, would you be so kind as to help the young lady.

One of the servants comes forward a little, he looks at my firewood that had not yet been lit, he puts his fingers together, and a good flame appears, so it's lit in an instant.

(Leonora) Thank you very much, then what are you going to order?

(Lady Margot) I don't know dear, what do you recommend?

She spends a couple of minutes explaining all the types of crepes, at the end she asks for the burnt milk crepe, this is one of the most popular, since burnt milk does not exist in this world.

I finish her crepe and hand it to her, I give her a little explanation of how to eat them, and she takes a good bite.

(Lady Margot) hmmm, yes, quite good, and the price is very reduced, I can see why my sales are down.

Okay, that last sentence made my hair stand on end.

The woman finishes her crepe, and one of her servants hands her a handkerchief, it's quite curious how this pair reacts instantly to every action of the woman, I would be more aware of them, if it were not for the last thing the lady said.

(Lady Margot) Tell me young lady, do you live far away? It's already getting dark, and it's not good for a lady to walk alone in the city, and even less with the money from the day's sale.

(Leonora) eh, I don't live far away, besides the city is very safe, in all the years I've been here I've never been mugged.

(Lady Margot) maybe, but because of me you will have to leave later than usual, and you never know when some drunk might come to bother you, that's why the least I would like to do is to help you get home.

(Leonora) eh? thank you very much for the gesture, but it's not necessary, besides I still have to close, and I don't want to delay you.

(Lady Margot) Please young lady, I insist.

At her words, the two men that accompanied her come forward, I close my eyes and cover myself with my arms by instinct, at the moment I feel that the men entered my stall, but they pass me by, then when I open my eyes, I see them putting my things away, and cleaning the place.

(Lady Margot) Come with me young lady, let the men work.

With nothing better to do, I decide to go with the flow, in my original life my father used to say, "if he's going to take us, let him take us in a limo" and seeing the elegant carriage the lady was traveling in, I can only think, how wise my father was.

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Despite he told me he would take me home, the carriage goes in a completely opposite direction, well, he never asked me where I lived, so maybe it's a mistake of the coachman?

After an uncomfortable silence in which I couldn't even speak, the carriage finally stops.

(Lady Margot) Come with me dear, let's talk about business.

The woman gets out of the carriage, and the couple of men who accompanied her stared me, making me understand that I must obey her.

Going down, I'm a little surprised where we were, apparently we arrived at "Saint Sofia".

In the game, each capture target had things you could regale them with to increase your affinity, and among them, the Saint Sofia's sweets were the best, it was just a matter of finding out their favorite food.

Even now, I remember that Johan liked lemon pie, Maxwell liked chocolate cake, Hansel liked apple cinnamon pie, and Bruno liked pecan bread.

The woman started walking in the direction of the store, as her assistants were still right behind me, I decided it was best to do as she said.

By that time, the store had already closed, and only the people who did the cleaning were left, and when they saw her pass by, they obediently lowered their heads.

We crossed some doors, well protected, and entered a small cabin, strange as it sounds, this was an elevator, but it worked with magic, and not with pulleys.

For the time, it seems that we reached the bottom of that 5-floor building, when we opened the doors, we arrived at an elegant lobby, the men stayed in the elevator, and were replaced by a woman with glasses.

She is in charge of opening some doors to what should be this woman's office, I believe that if my incredible deductive abilities do not fail me, this woman must be the owner of the "Saint Sofia".

She sits behind a desk, and invites me to sit down.

(Lady Margot) Something to drink dear?

(Leonora) Yes... What does she have that's strong?

The woman laughs and beckons to her assistant.

(Lady Margot) Monica, open a bottle of my finest wine for my guest.

Her assistant nods and goes out for a moment, soon she returns with a bottle and a glass, when she starts to serve me, I signal her to fill the glass.

With the wine in my hands, I drink it all in one gulp, and ask for a refill, for a couple of lifetimes now I have started drinking to calm my nerves, I just hope it doesn't become a bad habit.

After drinking my third glass, the assistant makes a sign to her boss, at the moment she hands her a small mirror and a jar with what I think is honey, the woman opens the jar and takes a generous spoonful that she puts in her mouth, I think the alcohol is affecting me too much, because it seems to me that her face has less wrinkles than usual.

After observing her face in the mirror, the woman puts her hands together and settles back in her seat.

(Lady Margot) Well, you may wonder why I brought you here, right?

With some alcohol in my system, the words come more easily, my father also used to say, that alcohol was the cause, and the solution to all problems, again, I am not able to doubt his infinite wisdom.

(Leonora) Yes, I don't understand why he invited me to his office.

(Lady Margot) you see my dear, I don't usually bring many people here, let alone go for them in person, I only do it when I want to offer a good opportunity, tell me young lady, do you know how to see the opportunities when they knock at your door?

(Leonora) What opportunity are you talking about?

The woman makes a sign, and her assistant leaves some papers in front of me.

(Lady Margot) I want you to work for me, I have been watching your little store for a while, and I am really interested in the things you have created, those crepes, and that burnt milk, they are pretty good inventions, and very easy to reproduce, and even more when you go around spreading your methods to anyone who asked you.

I choked, so I drink another glass of wine, that's true, I myself had no idea how famous the crepes would become, and since I didn't really invent it, I have never hidden the recipe.

(Lady Margot) you see honey, with what we know about your sweets, it would be very easy for me to take you off the market, and then start selling them in my store, but I'm really interested in any new recipe you can come up with.

I want to stress, that you first take me off the "market" and then sell the same as me.

(Lady Margot) So, what do you think, sweetie? I'm telling you, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity, if you turn it down, no one will ever offer you the same as me again.

Yeah, why I'll be dead, I caught the "subtlety" in her words.

I run another glass of wine down my throat, and take the papers, I think reading them is irrelevant, so I simply, stamp my signature on them.

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I wake up in my elegant and comfortable bed, it was already past noon, but I felt like continuing sleeping, so I simply settle in my sheets and go back to sleep, when I wake up again, I felt like having breakfast, or lunch, the truth I don't care, So I ring a bell, and immediately after, my food is served in my bed by an elegant group of servants.

After I finish eating, I ring the campaign again, and my entourage enters to remove my dishes.

A short time later, my assistant, a nice and quite smart girl named Lucy, enters the room.

(Leonora) Lucy, honey what's my agenda for the day?

She takes a notebook from her suit, and reads it to me.

(Lucy) Absolutely nothing, ma'am.

Just the way I like it, doing absolutely nothing.

(Leonora) Good, then you may go, if I need anything, I'll call you.

(Lucy) Very well ma'am, by the way, a letter has arrived from her Excellency Lady Margot, she says she invites you to lunch tomorrow.

(Leonora) oh, very well, send my confirmation, and don't forget to wake me up if I fall asleep, I don't want to leave her standing up.

(Lucy) Very well, then I'll leave.

Lucy leaves the room, and I'm still in my bed, I stretch to get rid of the laziness, and go back to bed.

Hmmm, I think I feel like taking a little nap, already with my head on the pillow, I think about how things have turned out for me.

I'm rich now, or rather, I'm filthy rich, after signing up with Lady Margot, I think back to those years in my original life, when my mother would buy a new recipe book, and make me help her cook, thanks to that, I've gradually been selling recipe after recipe to Lady Margot, and what she pays me for each one is exorbitant, obviously, I'm going to run out of recipes, so lately I'm taking longer and longer to give her a new one, at this rate, I just hope that when I finally run out, I've already made her enough money so she won't mind if I don't give her any more.

Besides, I don't think this woman will live more than a couple of years, I mean, by eye she should be about a thousand, so I don't think she'll live much longer, it's just a matter of my recipes holding up, besides, I've never made her mad, and my relationship with her is really good, when she doesn't threaten you with death, she's a pretty nice person.

The next day, arrived at the Saint Sophia and I use the elevator to the top floor, everyone knows me so I have a free pass, when I get to the foyer of her office, her assistant tells me to wait, she is with a guest now.

A short time later Lady Margot comes out of her office, accompanied by a beautiful silver-haired woman, both were talking like old friends, and for a moment I thought I recognized the other woman, but it escaped my memory.

(Lady Margot) Honey, when will be the day you tell me your beauty secret?

(Woman) oh, how many times do I have to tell you that there is no such secret, it's just a matter of doing a little exercise, and limiting yourself with desserts.

(Lady Margot) oh, you're always so evasive, never mind, sooner or later I'm going to find out.

After a while, both notice my presence, so I lower my head, if you speak so confidently to Lady Margot, this woman must be very important.

(Woman) oh, raise your head dear, you don't have to be so formal with me, Lady Margot has told me a lot about you, it seems that you are the person who continually makes me break my diet.

Upon seeing her closer, I think I know who she is, I am almost sure she is Eris, Johan's mother and Celes' teacher, I hardly recognized her, since until now, I had never met her.

(Leonora) I apologize if I have caused you any trouble ma'am.

The woman laughs a little and extends her hand to me.

(Eris) you can call me Eris honey, I insist that you should not be so formal, if your sweets had not seemed appetizing to me, they would never have made me break my diet, for which I am to blame, and my lack of will.

I shake his hand and return his greeting.

(Leonora) then I'm sorry about your diet, I'm finishing a new recipe, and I'm sure you won't be able to resist.

(Eris) oh really? Then I can't wait, I'll be looking forward to it, and by the way honey, if you ever need my help, my door will always be open.

(Leonora) thank you very much Mrs. Eris, I will take it into account.

(Eris) then I retire, and by the way, lady Margot, what you asked me, I can trust you that it's true.

Eris retired, to tell you the truth, I found her very nice, if I ever have any problem, I will definitely take her word for it.

(Lady Margot) Leonora, come, accompany me.

I follow Lady Margot back to her office, I found it strange that she doesn't offer me something to drink, well, every time I come here I usually empty one of her wine bottles, maybe she gets tired of me doing that.

On the desk, there was only one of her jars with honey, she opens it and takes a spoonful inside.

This doesn't seem unusual to me, she always has a jar of honey nearby, where she takes an occasional spoonful.

After setting the jar aside, she looks at herself in her hand mirror, sighs deeply and looks disappointed.

(Lady Margot) Just as I expected, it no longer has any effect on me.

Okay, this is starting to get weird.

She's silent for a moment, then she drops a bombshell on me.

(Lady Margot) Leonora, I know you are the witch, don't try to deny it.

It's a good thing I'm not drinking anything, I would have spit on her.

(Leonora) It's not true, I...

(Lady Margot) Please child, do you think I'm stupid? I wouldn't tell you if I wasn't completely sure, so don't try to deny it, I'm not in the mood for games.

I just keep quiet, what am I going to do now?

(Lady Margot) I'm going to offer you a chance, the chance of a lifetime you might call it, there's something I want you to read, if you find what I'm looking for, I'll let you go.

Completely terrified I nod my head.

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I wake up with a bucket of cold water, it seems like I overslept again, but my dreams are the only place where I can rest.

The guard throws me breakfast on a plate, a solitary piece of bread, and a jar of honey, as time goes by, my solid food decreases, and the honey in my meals becomes more abundant.

Honey, I begin to hate honey.

The guards drag me into a room, in the room, there is only a chair, a table, and a thick book on it.

I sit down on the chair and start reading the book for maybe the hundredth time.

I have no idea what they want me to look for, and how I'm supposed to look for it, not only because I'm a descendant of the original witch, I'm supposed to be able to read her grimoire.

Be that as it may, I return to my futile task of trying to decipher the witch's grimoire.

In this book, the original witch is supposed to have written her secrets, but I know firsthand that this is not true.

In the game there is a character with another copy of the witch's grimoire, and he tries to use one of her remedies to no avail, this left the fans quite confused, they wondered why he failed, and if the witch's grimoire really exists, why Leonora from the game never tried to get hold of it?

Years later, the writer of the game confirmed that this grimoire was only partially written by Oronela, the original witch.

Supposedly, Oronela did have a grimoire, but it was never found, and the writer never confirmed it's existence, and this grimoire, is just a bad copy made with the memories of people who at some point read the original grimoire, that's why, what is written here, are exaggerations or bad memories of Oronela's knowledge, and only a very small number of things work for real.

And since the grimoire is missing a page, I can assume that this was the only spell that worked.

And here I am, reading a fake grimoire, looking for something I have not been told, just because a woman found one of the nonsense written here to be true.

Time passed, it was time for lunch, now they only brought me the jar of honey, I think that piece of bread was my last solid food.

Days passed, months passed, years passed, honestly, I don't know anymore.

My routine hasn't changed, every day they force me to read the same book, looking for something that doesn't exist, and they only feed me honey, and when I don't want to eat, they force me to do it by force.

Honey, I really hate honey.

My appearance deteriorates every day, I think honey is enough to keep me alive, but currently, I must not weigh more than 30 kilos.

When my legs were no longer able to carry my own weight, they simply began to carry me like a rag doll, and so, continue my routine.

Reading the book over and over again, and just being fed honey.

Honey, I really hate honey.

Every once in a while, Lady Margot would come to ask what I had discovered, I think I finally figured out why she didn't tell me what she was looking for, so I couldn't fool her into thinking I had found it.

If I were to discover something, and it turns out to be the very thing she is looking for, then that is the only way I will know that I am telling her the truth.

That is why she comes to my cell, in the past I laughed a little at her appearance by comparing her to a mummy, but now, I think I am more of a mummy than she is.

(Lady Margot) Have you found anything? My patience is wearing thin.

One of her servants put his ears to my mouth, as I am barely able to speak.

(Servant) He says nothing has come in.

(Lady Margot) What a waste of time.

I whispered again in the servant's ear.

(Servant) He says that the grimoire is missing a page, maybe it contains what ma'am is looking for.

(Lady Margot) Yes, indeed, there's what I was looking for, but as the years go by, the effect is less and less effective, that's why I hoped you would find a more effective method, but you have failed, I gave you a chance, and you failed me.

She looked at me with contempt, and ordered her servants to carry me, on the way, she kept talking to me, and with her words, I think I begin to understand her actions.

(Lady Margot) you know girl, I used to be beautiful, men would lose their minds just looking at me, and would line up in a long line just to be at my feet, but now, looking at me, I have become a decrepit old woman, I hate just looking at myself in the mirror.

We continued down a long hallway, and at the bottom, I could see a pair of doors that I figured were our destination.

(Lady Margot) and when I found the witch's grimoire, I couldn't believe it, what I was looking for for such a low price? I laughed out loud at the thought, but unfortunately, the effect was not as powerful as I expected, at first I thought it was because of the ingredients, so I did experiments.

One of the guards opened the doors, and inside, there was only a solitary stone coffin.

(Lady Margot) beautiful young women, ladies in the prime of life, wizards of great power, even little girls, all worked, it's true, but not as much as I expected, and little by little, I realized that the effect was less and less effective.

Then, the honey she always ate....

(Lady Margot) hmm, I wonder what effect will it have? If use one of the witch's descendants.

The guards remove the lid of the coffin, and I am not surprised to find, that it was full of honey.

(Lady Margot) Goodbye Leonora, it was a pleasure to meet you, you made me earn some money, for which I'll be grateful.

The guards lay me inside the coffin, and closed the lid, before my world falls into darkness and honey, while on the lid I could notice the desperate scratches of all those who came before me.