The Devil's Cursed Witch
The tale of a man who brings death and a girl who denies it. ---- On the haunted mountain in the kingdom, they say there lived a witch. She was born a princess. But even before her birth, the priest declared her to be cursed and demanded her death. They poisoned the mother to kill the baby before she gave birth, but the baby was born out of the dead mother—a cursed child. Again and again, they tried to kill the baby but she miraculously survived every single attempt. Giving up, they abandoned her on the haunted mountain to die but she still survived on that barren land— A witch ‘Why won’t she die?’ Years later, the people finally had enough of the witch and decided to burn the mountain. But the Devil arrived to her rescue and took her with him from that burning place, because dying was not her destiny even then. Draven Amaris. The Black Dragon, who ruled over supernatural beings, the Devil who no one wished to cross a path with. He hated humans but this certain human girl would pull him towards her whenever she was in danger. ‘Is she really a human?’ He took the human with him and named this mysteriously tenacious girl “Ember”, a piece of glowing coal in a dying fire. A soul tainted with vengeance and the darkness of hell, would rise from the ashes and fulfil her revenge. ------ This is the second book from the series of The Devils and Witches. 1st book - Witch's daughter and the Devil's son. 3rd book- The Devil's Betrothed. All books are connected to each other but you can read them as stand-alone.
What Are These?
Ember was in a good mood. The breeze was cool and crisp, the sunshine warm, and the lovely scent of the grassland before them made her feel relaxed. Erlos told her that the vast meadows before them marked the boundary between two territories; they had just crossed the land of the witches and were about to enter the Forest of the Elves.
As they neared a river, she recognized this was the same river where Erlos had fished before.
"Erlos?"
"Yes, Miss?"
"If I remember correctly, from this river to Honeyharbor, didn't we take more than two hours? But it's only been roughly an hour since we left? Does this mean we already covered half the distance we need to travel?"
"Miss, it's all thanks to you. You can ride a horse really well now. Because of that, we could cross this distance faster than before," Erlos praised.
She offered him a pleasant smile. "No, it's thanks to you, Erlos. It's because you have taught me well."