Chapter 33: Side Story: Neiva

A blizzard. That is what I am. Some people call me the Ice witch. Some people call me a calamity. Back in my glory days I froze an entire kingdom solid, but now I am a husk of my former self. My Queen, Eliah, did give me a gift before she passed though. I was given a blessing of sorts. She said to use it once I was nearing the end of my natural life span. That was 60 years ago. Currently I am an 83 year old frail woman.

I always enjoyed the time I spent with my goddess. The only person who I could look up to was now gone, and soon I will fade into history too. I can feel myself slipping away. I don’t feel pain physically. The only pain I feel is the anguish that my beloved goddess had to die. No one thought it was possible, including myself; nonetheless, her death happened, and that is a fact.

Now like a pathetic nobody I sit here alone in my bed counting down the days until my death. I sit in this shack awaiting my demise just like she told me to do. She said we would be reunited eventually after my passing, but when will that be? “Just why did you have to go?” 

I started to remember all of the time I spent with my goddess, and it filled me with warmth calming my troubled mind. I remember the first time she found me.

I was completely alone with no one to call family, and she pulled me out of my own abyss that I created. She surrounded me with wonderful like minded people. People who I still consider angels. “I wonder where all of them went?” 

When she found me I was a child drowning in my own sorrow due to my own parents abandoning me. She found me in a forest. My own parents threw me away like the trash I was. They called me a monster just like everyone else. They said I was nothing more than a psychopath. They were wrong, and eventually Eliah pulled me away from all of my suffering

She promised me a life full of happiness, and my life was happy until she passed on. I would follow her everywhere, and she didn’t care about the small things like my parents. I was able to experiment on any type of creature I wanted, and she allowed me to freeze an entire kingdom for her when they dared to go against her. 

I just wish I had been there when she went and died. She told me that she would be fine, and she sent me away to this shack. I believed in her like I always have, but she still died; however, she did promise me that even should she perish we will see each other again. “I wonder when that will be?”

I wish I would have gone against her decision to send me away. I wish I would have been with her the moment those fucks took her life. I wish I could have at least said goodbye to my beautiful goddess. 

I can only lament my stupid choices back then, but she promised we would meet again. She has never once broken her promises to me. With those thoughts in mind I made my way over to my runic table inside my cabin. It was glowing a familiar purple color. 

This table was for complex spell formulations. The spell that she had given me as a blessing was too difficult for me to recreate, but finally I got the formulation correct. The final piece was for me to simply put an apple of rejuvenation in the center, or at least that's what she said.

I didn’t know what future would await me once I placed the apple upon the table, but for once since my goddess disappeared I was excited. Finally I would be by her side again!

Swiftly I placed the apple upon the table, and the formation glowed even brighter than before. Then the spell swiftly made its home inside of my body. It brought with it a calming effect, and before I knew it I passed out.

{Remembrance: Even if your mind shall forget, your soul will remember: Ice Witch Neiva.}

I woke up thinking about the gift I received. I was unsure what the gift of remembrance would do, but I knew it could only be a good thing. Everything my goddess did for me ended up being good for me. She used to pat my head when I was a child, and it would always calm me down. Before I knew it I started crying in remembrance of my goddess.

What good is it being an ice witch that can freeze everything? I couldn’t freeze time. I couldn’t go back in time and undo what had already been done, and I couldn’t bring my goddess back from the dead. I wiped the tears out of my eyes and laid back down on my soon to be death bed.

Time ticked by as I awaited my eventual death. I laid there for what was probably days before I felt my consciousness start to slip away from me. Before long my life faded out of existence.

{You have died: Your soul shall remember.}

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