Chapter 33. Bonding Ritual

Noelle’s POV

Zeus and I are sitting on a rock watching them making big waves together. “How did you start learning magic?” I ask Zeus.

Zeus sits a bit straighter, “Ever since I was a little boy, I have been different. No one wanted to play with me because they thought I was weird. My own parents avoided me as much as they could because they didn’t understand me. My mother said she knew something was wrong with me when I was born, and one eye was brown and the other green. I discovered I could do magic when a storm flooded our village. Every house got soaked except ours because I put protective spells over them that I read in a book. Ever since that day I looked for as much magic information I could find and practiced in solitude. It changed when I was 16 because a group of travelers came to our village. With them, there was a girl with freckles and an upturned nose.”

I look at him, “Faith?”

Zeus smiles, “Yes Faith. She was the first person that didn’t