The Villainess Won't Die

I FELT MY SOUL GET OUT OF MY BODY and come back. My heartbeat speeded up so bad that I'm sure Val heard it, by how he smirked at me. It's not like I didn't expect Valerian to notice something was strange with me, because he knows me better than anyone, well... he used to know me. But I did not see this coming. How can he ask me a question like that?

After what seemed like an eternity, I finally managed to say something, "Could say that again, please? I think I misunderstood your question, Val."

Nodding, a cat-ish smile appeared on his mouth. "Who are you, exactly, sis?" Oh, Goddess. What am I supposed to say?

I don't think he would believe the truth. But if there's a thing I remember well, is that it's fucking hard to lie to him. Now I'm worried that he might also be feeling the magic inside of me. I hope not.

That's something I wouldn't be able to explain to him, even if I wanted to.

"Who. Are you. Exactly, sis?" Val repeated, playing with the words in his mouth.

So, he's asking me this... But it's a joke, right? Could he just be throwing bait to see if I'll tell him something? I can see him doing this.

Let's be careful. "Well, I'm Natasha Mary-Anne Ludwick Nicholai. Who else? Your eldest sister, Val!" I spoke calmly and he analyzed me carefully.

He doesn't even need to utter a word for me to see how suspicious he is. Yesterday, when we were having breakfast, he stared at me strangely, but I thought it was nothing. Could he be suspicious about me since yesterday?

"Look, Nat," fucking Goddess, he doesn't believe me. "I don't doubt the fact that you are my sister. You may indeed be my sister, but you're not yourself! What I mean is: you're Natasha, but not the one who was here two days ago. Even the sound of your body is different, your frequency is way too different," shit.

Shit.

Shit.

Shit. 

How could I forget? Damn it, Natasha. How could I forget about Val's electrified senses to this extent? It's been such a long time since I last lived with him, like this, that I forgot I'm not the only prodigy of the main branch of the Nicholai House. And I bypassed my memories about how sharp Val actually is.

Having telekinesis and thunder magic, he can do lots of things. And one of the things related to his thunder magic is what he likes to call 'electrified senses'. Val's smell and hearing are powerfully sharp because of it. But not just sharper than mine. No.

He's able to sense the aura of a person, their vibration, and the streams of magic inside them, to ridiculous proportions. Yes, I remembered his smelling and hearing senses being sharper than mine, but not all. I think I was so absorbed in him being here, safe, healthy, and alive again, that I didn't analytically focus on anything else.

Which I should have done. Especially now that I have to be extra careful with everything and everyone, after getting back. I can't afford to overlook things like this. Even with Val, who's my favorite person and who I know would never betray me as Dalilah did.

Besides, being a genius like he is, he can easily set persons apart from their smell or the sound of their astral frequency. The astral frequency is also related to magic. But the most important and powerful factor is that everyone has a unique frequency.

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And by hearing this frequency, Val can tell if someone has good or bad intentions. If they are in a good or bad mood. Or if they are lying or telling the truth. Between other things. That's why it wouldn't work well lying to him. But thankfully, it's not like Alisha's power. That kid traumatized me. I'm embarrassed just to think about what she made me say.

And for Mikla's sake, why haven't I predicted this? I always knew him, what he can do, what he can become. His potential.

Goddess-damn it! I should have thought about the 'Valerian' factor sooner. I know he's with me, that's undoubtedly, but he's too smart and skilled to be fooled by some lies.

But it's not like I would lie to him anyway. He's way too important to me, for me to do that. But I also can't tell him the truth. Not all of it, at least.

So, I can say that I would more likely be masking the truth.

I was careless.

"And," he came closer to me and whispered in my ear. "You smell like magic, Nat."

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Fuck.  Fuck.

Fuck! 

Hearing him confirm that, hits totally different than thinking about the possibility of him knowing about it. What do I do now? What's going on inside his mind?

And to make me go crazy, he kept going. "Not only that, but it's as if there was an enormous ocean of magic inside you, sis. It's way too strong for me not to notice. Besides, yesterday, this smell was present. But not at all like it is now," so he was, indeed, suspicious of me since yesterday.

Does this mean my magic had already been slowly manifesting since the moment I woke up? Damn it. That's what I was saying about me having to be careful with extremely sensitive people, like Val.

Goddess above, I'm lucky that it's him who learned the truth, not anyone else. And this also proves that, as I thought, his thunder magic is more developed than our dad's, because while Val, clearly, realizes what was going on with me, our father doesn't have the slightest idea. Or, he just doesn't care enough to pay attention to it, as Val does.

My little brother, who's the same height as me, sat back on his sit and stared at me as if waiting for my answer. And after staying dumbfounded for a longer time than I intended, I open my mouth again, "First of all, you must believe in me!"