POV Narrator:

Back at Harriet and Freya's residence, where Laura was waking up after the harrowing nightmare she had at the thought that all that trying to get her family back was for naught. Laura finally woke up, and in the afternoon of that same day that she was having a visit from Paul Hanbridge and his son, McLaren eventually woke up, she was having a nightmare that lasted exactly 24 hours, which were full of messages to her. Some were for McLaren to resign herself to never seeing her daughter, others for her not to give up, always alternating between the two sides, after all she lost the big chance, she wouldn't have the great help of an instant cure, having to do everything by herself, but it still wasn't the end of the world for the Irish girl, after all there were books telling about the curse and how to cure it, books that were from the Luna era, which was almost 20 thousand years ago, but they were still plenty of information to find some content related to bringing the cure so that the couple could see each other again, even more so that they could finally get back together if the research is right, but the time it would take was something undetermined, since they were books enough to take more than 100 years reading, because it was a lot, they were much deeper studies of that curse, being told precisely in the Luna era, which had everything, including forbidden and cruel studies taken from books there, some were also made by the witch Luna herself. McLaren soon wakes up and looks around at where she was and is weirded out by not being at home and never having seen that place before, by suddenly waking up lying in bed.

POV Laura:

What a strange place, but I have the impression that I have been here... I hope I'm not waking up from a nightmare again, it's not enough how distressing the last ones were... I just know that seeing the message from Madeleine and Kara telling me not to give up has motivated me, but I'm still a little confused... Why am I awake here? Don't give up on what? Has something happened to me? Ah... Now I remember... Shit... That's what happened before I fell asleep from frustration... I don't know why I fell asleep. So now it makes sense, Harriet and Freya didn't get Lilith's intervention... Damn... And remembering this makes me even worse, just when I thought I was hoping I would see my wife and daughter, I arrive and have to face this one, but it's okay, I understand, they are not to blame, neither is Lilith... I'm just a mortal who was playing the dependent one... I'm the one with the whole pose and reputation of being the witch... Which I hate with all my heart... Because I'm not some immortal goddess immaculate fuck... I'm just Laura McLaren... A mother... a wife... I just want to be able to see my wife and my daughter... No matter how much money I make racing brooms... Fuck the quadruple double crown, none of this pays the price of being next to Bern and Diana, nothing in this world is more important than them, achievements like this are of no importance to me... I kept looking at the surroundings and soon the two witches appeared to me, they came into the room and were very worried, then they sat down beside me on the bed and I was even calmer.

- What's up Laura? You were unconscious for a whole day, we are already up to the 7th, it's been 24 hours of sleep... We were worried about you so we left you here. Really sorry we couldn't - Harriet said with a worried expression.

- We have tried to do all we can, but don't lose hope Laura McLaren, know that with our help and the help of a witch we know... In fact, Luna and Lilith told us that you could go to this witch's hut, where you could seek a cure for the curse of the metal spheres, remember when years ago you went to Loch Ness? Then... That witch will help you with this... The books were transported there... Combine this with her knowledge of half a century and you can make a great partnership trying to find a cure for this curse - said Freya comforting me... Farnese... I remember her... The witch who knows a lot about potions... It will be a good thing, it may take a while, but I will try.

I just smile at them without answering anything, letting them know that I just agreed that I was fine, with that the two get up smiling back, I see them leaving the room, they said they were going to bring some food here, I use this time to get my cell phone that they left on the table next to the bed, with that I check message by message, looking very attentively... Messages from practically everybody... "Where are you Laura? Answer me girl, you were supposed to come home yesterday? At least let me know you are sleeping outside... Sorry, little sister... I'm just worried," Chelsea as always the attentive girl of always... I answer her with all the affection possible "I'm at some witches house here, soon I'll be back home, it's too bad I didn't tell you", besides that I see a lot of Bern "Laura?", "Love?", "Where are you?", "Did something happen?", "Is everything ok?", "I miss you?", "Love?", "Please, if you are still here... And nothing worked out... Don't do this", "I love you", she seemed to be really worried... So I think I will call Bern, to at least know how she is, with that I go to the contact "cute cabbage", I start the call, it didn't take long and soon she answers me.

["Fluffy Cabbage": Love! You finally called me... Tell me, what happened? Sorry to be so direct, I didn't even ask if you were okay... It's lucky that I called while I was in the bathroom... Diana went outside to play with Anna and Carter You have no idea who I saw today, but well... Tell me first about yourself... I've been worried sick].

[Me: Things are not going well at all, love, I have some very bad news... It seems that everything really depends on me... I haven't found a cure for our curse love... We are going to be stuck in this thing for some time yet... Unfortunately the witch Lilith did not want to intercede directly with us, as she is a goddess far above us... A mortal like me doesn't have to be begging for her help and I even understand this, because we have to be independent from her... But that's ok... I will try to find the cure, love, even if it takes many years, even if I don't succeed now, I promise that I will try my best to find the cure for our curse].

["Fluffy Cabbage": Ah love, don't get frustrated like this, don't lose hope... Look, I have every faith that you will make it, we will soon be free of the curse and there is nothing Daryl can do to us, because I will have you by my side again... But anyway, don't get down like that Laura, I noticed it just by the tone of your voice, have faith love, don't give up, I'll be waiting here with Diana].

[Me: so tell me what happened today?]

She starts telling me about the day, she had a visit from that asshole Paul Hanbridge and his son showed up, oh yeah... He is Maria White's son... I haven't seen her since she was pregnant with the boy. She always came to see us... But now she is in Arcturus with Naomi, they are safe at least, but I am happy to hear that Bern spoke well of the boy. It's his father's fault that he is this way and it seems Diana didn't get along with him at first... I wonder how Bern can stand all these years being called crazy? Poor thing... Imagine even more having to say that I am Diana's mother... Nobody would believe that a famous runner is her mother and it would even make her furious... Even more so thinking that I have abandoned her, or she simply would not believe me, and even more so Daryl who would put things into her head... I thought it was cute that she said about telling the story of the fertility stone to the girls... I was all excited, even more so because she was passing on what her grandmother had told her... The fertility stone will never be erased, not even with the lesbian erasure that Bern suffers... She even believed that Bern would have a mother... In place of a father... That Bern... Ahhhhhh... I am loving again how smart this woman is.

["Fluffy Cabbage"; The day would have been wonderful if it wasn't for the boy's father picking him up and telling me to my face that I was crazy... That I had to stay away from him... This man never matures. Paul is a disgusting person].

[Me: Yes, but I'm glad you told the boy a wonderful story. Maybe this will kick-start his influence, so that he might think differently about witches... That's beautiful Bern... You are creating a new future lineage of witches with this, you are guaranteeing even more allies for our side... He may be a child, but one day he will be an adult, showing that you are an amazing witch and that he has admiration for you will only make him feel even better].

["Fluffy Cabbage": exactly that love... I just want us to have someone else on our side... But there is also something bad around this boy... Paul and Daryl are up to something again? They want to make this boy marry our daughter? Still with the excuse that he can save the family financially, but you know that Diana has a savings account set aside just for her when she turns 18... That I am keeping the entire fortune with her in case anything happens to us... That Daryl will never get his hands on the family money... But seriously... I don't want our little girl to be pushed towards someone out of interest, the boy may be a good boy, I wouldn't complain if he took our little girl, but I'm still afraid of that... And I also suspect that Diana is showing that she likes something else].

[Me: What? Now I'm in shock girl... It means that there is a high chance that the daughter is a lesbian just like the mothers... It also means that they are pushing the boy on Diana for their own benefit... What the hell... I swear I have to go back soon... But relax, my love... If our daughter is really as we are imagining, she is very likely to get involved with a girl and this boy... You have already sent that he is Diana's cousin, when he is a cousin they are usually more afraid, I bet he can also see Diana as a friend or sister, but not to the point of falling in love].

["Fluffy Cabbage": If you take into account the history of McLaren, you know that cousin or brother doesn't have much difference hahaha].

[Me: Fuck you Bernadette... There has been no incest in the McLaren family since Scarlet McLaren who was Julia McLaren's daughter with Hope McLaren who was Victoria's daughter... But that was over 200 years ago... Don't even come with that Bernadette... It was not funny... But anyway... Relax girl... Well I have to go now... I will try everything so we can see each other again].

["Fluffy Cabbage": Me too love, I don't want them to suspect my delay in the bathroom... I love you so much Laura McLaren... I am glad you are well... I have been missing you. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Good luck, sweetheart. I believe you will soon make it].

I quickly answer her with an "I love you" and with that I hang up the call, soon the two enter the room, noticing that I had finished talking to Bern... I don't mind them listening, they are immortal witches who have heard everything so they bring all that food to me... I bet it's still leftovers from that divine food, I really hope it is.

- To make up for our promise breaking, we will let you have some more of this divine food, just as we will make it a point to always refer you to Farnese every month at least until you find the cure... We want to make up for the promise breaking... Really? - Said Harriet looking at me all worried as if I had done something horrible, but seriously I'm not angry with them? Not even at Lilith herself ... After all she is right, I'm more angry at myself.

- You don't have to feel guilty... Because no one here is to blame... But I only feel frustrated because I could have dedicated myself to finding the potion on my own and not depended on greater forces to do so... At least I understood what Lilith meant... She doesn't have to be giving privileges to a mere mortal... There are 6 and a half billion people on this planet... She has much more concern than the mortal who wants to see his wife again... If I were a goddess in her position I would also stay neutral... Well... Thank you for everything... You have helped a lot anyway... The books will be of great help and with that Farnese helping me it will only improve even more to speed up the process of finding an antidote - I say smiling and soon start to eat after this beautiful speech, which they had a smile on their face, which is good, I don't want them to feel guilty, so much that I took the hands of the two witches.

- You are without a doubt one of the nicest witches we know, Laura McLaren, you have the best of Madeleine and Kara... If you were in our time you would be one of the nine witches without a doubt... We will make it a point to help you girl... We still have a lot left, since you are the first to know about the future of magic... You are one of the most important pieces of a future era of magic that is to come... - said Harriet getting me all excited... Then I'll finish eating... I was already satisfied with eating all that and I get up from there.

- Well, I'm not going to stand here and cry over spilled milk... I have to get off the bottom and get back on top again... There is only one way out of this bottom and that way is up, crying here and whining will not help me get out of this bottom, I don't have to wait for someone to put a ladder or a rope, after all the blocks are already in place for me to climb... So I'm going to this Farnese... I don't want to lose a second more... Goodbye - I say to them, grabbing my things and leaving, with them waving to me as I jump out the window with the broom.

I speed up with all my motivation, I felt like nothing could bring me down, I will continue my quest to cure my curse and soon I will be in my wife's arms, I speed up the broom with what I could give, I have never felt that adrenaline rush of speeding up before since I was coming here all hopeful, it's like this defeat is something that will magnify me more... I may have lost this battle in joining Bern... My motivation increases in a much bigger way, this is going to be one more challenge, one more battle... It will only prove me as a witch even more deserving of Bernadette Cavendish's great love... the sky getting less and less focus, I was actually noticing that the speed was quite high, 800 kilometers per hour... 850 per hour... I passed a commercial airliner... I have to show my freedom to the extreme... I'm going to fly even faster... So much so that I passed on the side waving to people and the driver, still continuing on the upswing and increasing what that broom could handle... I'm going to get there fast that way.

Minutes later...

I didn't measure my efforts, I really wanted to get as much speed as possible on the broom, I think I got up to 900 per hour this time, I even felt like I was pulling a lot of magic, but soon I land my broom on the outskirts of Loch Ness, in front of the Farnese witch's cottage, I felt her presence and she was just quietly walking around the house, just like Nessie who was underwater, soon I get inside that house and we look at each other... She looks at me and nods her head and I do the same, until I take out my purse and also my coat, hanging it up, and then I go to her.

- Hello Farnese... I guess we will see a lot more of each other, doesn't it matter if I stay here for a few days? The initial plan didn't work out as it turned out... I guess fate brought me here with you, but don't mind my illustrious presence around here, I won't bother you so much... But seriously... I heard that this is where the books about the curse of the metal spheres will come from - I tell her, who just smiles at me and then opens her mouth.

- Oh fine, my house is your house, you don't have to worry about disturbing me with your presence... I already received the telepathic message through Harriet who told me everything... Girl you must have had quite a nightmare, since you were asleep for 24 hours constantly... So yes... I heard all about it, well... So let's go, I also want to see the books that you have around here, let's first read what you have and then we can begin to perform tests and experiments ... After all after a good research we will be able to unite you with your beloved Bernadette - She said smiling at me and then I went with her through the corridors until I reached the floor below.

I hadn't visited that part of the house, when I went down the stairs I was surprised at how much space there was, I even went down and noticed that Nessie passed right beside us and she seemed to have "waved" at me, how cute? Well, I continued my way down those stairs, Farnese uses a fire spell and those lamps light up, but soon she makes them go out again, with that she snaps her fingers and those lamps become lamps, not to mention the ceiling, she just wanted to make fun of my face for thinking that everything here is nothing technological and everything else, I was surprised by this, until I came across a huge shelf and I was all amazed? Wow and how huge it was.

- This is all the books they took from there, really this is a lot, but I think that the two of us together can quickly digest all this, I am sure that in less than a year we can do it... Look, I can read a million words in less than a month at least, it's not that complicated when you have the knack of reading, I'll make some important notes, you can also get used to reading, it will be of great help, so let's do it this way? - She then divides that shelf and one part is for my side and the other for me... Well, I was a little discouraged, especially since they are books... I have read a lot to become a successful runner and now I will have to read it again... It is a little boring, but for Diana and Bernadette I will do it.

- I also think I can read all that in words... I never stopped to count, but I have read many books on aerodynamic principles, racing strategies, mechanics, racing brooms, history, everything else, besides the normal magic books I usually read in the library at home, so I think we can handle it, but let's not read by cutting anything, any part of it can be important for our knowledge - I tell her while looking confidently at that shelf... Soon I floated up on a carpet and went to the book on top of the shelf in the right corner as well as Farnese did the same and with that I got down from there and went to sit at a table.

- Now comes the most boring part, but it is necessary so that we can reach our conclusions, don't forget to make notes of the most important points - She said, dragging a notebook and a fountain pen along with a pot of ink in my direction... Apparently some witches don't abandon traditions for nothing... It would have been much better to use a ball-point pen, but okay.

Right away I opened the first book and got weird... moon symbols everywhere... Ah... Really, it's in Luna language... So that means they are just books from the Luna era... These little things are over 20000 years old. Good to know that Margaret was not totally the inventor of this, but a cuckold of a witch from 20000 years ago... Well come on... I think I still remember some of the Luna writing "The curse of iron balls", "Written by Hai Ho",Hai Ho, what a funny name... Well let's see the synopsis... "Huj Len a young girl from Garknl was starting to study at Uhy academy, just hoping for a normal life, until she met a girl named Jiji who came from the darkness, but had a big problem that was the prejudices suffered in the society even more by Hin Len, who ended up casting a curse on Jiji that prevented her from being near Huj again... Will the two girls ever be able to bond again?" What a poorly written book, it has the spoiler right in the synopsis... I'm sure this is a Lunarian novel, but it must have some mention of this curse and a cure too... Plus it's not that big... It is only 179 pages... I soon open the first page "Written by Hai Ho" "643 After Luna" ah I think it must be after the witch Luna appeared or it was after she left, I don't know, little is known about this era beyond legends and myths... Even I myself didn't think it was real that they really existed... Even more curious is that they are blue haired people just like Farnese... Before I start reading I take a look at her and notice some similarities... Farnese is younger than Harriet and Freya... How can she have similar traits to a Lunarian? They don't even exist today, plus there are other traits in Farnese... Very curious, until she notices that I was watching her and then she gets all silly.

- Hey! Pay attention to the book... Why are you looking at me so curiously? - she asked, since I was really drying my eyes on this woman.

- Oh sorry, I just think you look like the Lunarians in this book... Have you ever wondered where you came from and if you are really someone who came from that era? Because your features don't resemble ours at all... I'm sorry, I don't think I should ask such things - I tell her on impulse, but I was curious.

- Relax girl, if you don't even know, who can say I do... Seriously, I ask myself every day where I came from, because I never knew my parents... I never knew my origin... And the little I remember are flashes of a vision of a woman with my hair and another redhead like you... But they are blurred visions, because I was still very newborn... I really wanted to know who they were... After all, at this point of the game they have been gone for hundreds of years... I wanted to know how I ended up here and have been taken care of by Nessie ever since... My life itself is a mystery... In 582 years I never knew where I came from... But that I will find out one day... I always thought I was possibly a Lunarian descendant too, but you never know... - She said shrugging her shoulders and then went back to reading... I also do the same, after all we had to find out more about this curse, instead of just talking normally.

Hours later...

This book is just a novel... I've read everything and nothing interesting happens here, so it can already be discarded, well a defeat was already, so I'll cross it off the list, I finished this thing kind of fast, well then I'll see another, not that the story is bad too, I found it cute, she tried to find a cure at all costs, by what the book said the protagonist never saw the other again and had a tragic end... Wow, what a rage, this book was not even supposed to have a cute ending, so I put it on a shelf that Farnese wrote as "useless books" and put it there and the blue haired witch soon noticed that I had finished that book.

- What a shame... But who knows, maybe the next one will be useful... Don't give up Laura McLaren soon we can find more written content - She said cheering up and soon closing that book, putting a bookmark, we could see that the book she got is much bigger than mine, the kind that was really huge, well after she closed that book and left the library, I soon went to get another book.

The second book on that huge shelf... Let me see how many there are... Each shelf on my side has 1... 2... 5... 10... 24... And that's 5 shelves... That means there are a total of... 120 books! That's a lot of books... And to think that I will have to read all of it, well, it doesn't hurt to try, after all it's all so that I can see my little girl again, all so that I can be by my Diana and my Bernadette's side again. I grab that thing and sit down at the table, but first I take a look at the cover "The attempted removal of the metal spheres", "Written by Gin Jul" This one looks promising... Yes, now that I can find a cure for both of us... There was nothing in the blurb, just a blank, so I immediately tried to open the book.

"This is an account of an experiment of mine done with the Rejects, after the discovery of the curse of the metal spheres, I decided to perform experiments with different rejects in search of finding a way to perform studies and who knows maybe surgically remove the metal spheres from inside a person, who knows so we can get some result, read at your own risk, it has images of viscera and a lot of blood, things that I needed to portray to show the result of all my examinations, this was my attempt to perform studies on rejects." "Gin Jul 651 After Luna".

Interesting to know... They were written in almost the same era... So that must be the century where the curse of the metal spheres were at their peak... That's good... But what would be the rejects? The Lunarian women were experimenting with rejects, or else with humans... Ahhhh! Now that I noticed... that's right, they called those who didn't live in their society rejects, mainly because the Lunarians were only women from what I read in the other book... But how horrible... Worse than these drawings are detailed, but very disturbing, until Farnese arrives coming down the stairs with a tray with some food, she soon puts it on a table and waves to me... Then I leave the book open on that page and go towards her.

- Let's have a little break to eat, it's always good to train your neurons, eating a little makes you feel more like studying... But tell me more... The book you took apparently had nothing - said Farnese while eating, it was one of those divine hamburgers... A wonderful food, but soon I answer her.

- It was just a silly novel, it had nothing of knowledge, but it did help me to know a little about Lunarian society... They were a racist little shit... Wow... I never thought I would notice this, but they were all supremacists of the blue-haired witch race, the others were treated and seen even in their society as inferior, not to mention who wasn't like that... People who lived down there, where they called darkness. The other humans still lived in the Neolithic era dying of cold and were even called rejects... Wow... But how disgusted I am with this little society that lived in the past - I tell her and she quickly shrugs her shoulders.

- Nothing that I did not know, I have seen more about them in other books, a society composed only of women, witches who fought among themselves, so that the cause of their fall was the power, wanting all the sorcerer stones at once, with this kingdom after kingdom was exploding and falling, until the last one collapsed, nowadays there are no remnants of this era, basically they killed each other - said Farnese leaving me quite surprised, despite everything I found fascinating, at least for study these horrible people are not evil at all, but still do much cruelty.

POV Narrator:

After going through a distressing nightmare, she saw in herself that there was only one way to get out of the bottom of that well, so she will carry out all possible studies to find a cure for the curse of the metal spheres with the help of the immortal witch Farnese, After all, it would only be a matter of time for this cure to be in McLaren's hands, but even so, time was something she cherished a lot, since each day lost was another way to distance herself from her daughter, the more she would be furious with the revelation, the more indignant she would be with Laura's possible abandonment, which was never intentional by McLaren.

Don't give up, lesbian witch...