After Evanora's Ceremony, when everyone got home, Evanora's parents came to see her in her room.
"Eva, are you okay?" Her father asked.
"Yes, of course I am, father!" Evanora said. "I was never happier!"
"When you said your wounds, you seemed to hesitate. " Her mother said. "Why?"
Evanora sighed. She knew that this question would come.
"I felt unready to would like this. What if I am not good enough?"
"Evanora, this is ridiculous. If you haven't faith to yourself, who will have faith to you? Good witches are here to protect the people. You have the chance to be born with magical abilities. Only four witches per century are born. You are one of them and your duty is to protect Oz. The wounds are pronounced to show to the people that you are strong and willing enough to protect them " her father said.
"Yes, I am sorry, father. I disapointed you. "Evanora said.
"Show me that you can be this clever girl who always picked up the admiration of the people. You are not a coward, Evanora. You are a Good Witch. Make us proud."
Evanora bowed her head. She was so ashamed to had disappointing her father. She turned to see how her mother had reacted but she saw her lying on the ground.
"Father, mother fainted!" She said, panicked. "Is she alright?"
"What?! " he exclaimed, trying to keep calm but failing.
He took his wife in his arm.
"Guards! " He shouted.
Some guards and servants rushed to her room.
"Carry her to her room" the advisor ordered.
Two guards took her in their arms and got out of the room. Evanora and her father were looking at them, anxious.
"Is she alright?" Evanora asked again.
"I don't know, Eva. I don't know"
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Glinda rushed to Evanora's bedroom.
"I have a good new for you to make this day even better" she said to her friend, her eyes glowing.
"What is it? " Evanora said, anxious. "Is mother okay?"
"You just had a little sister!"
Evanora felt the ground pitch under her feet.
"W-what?" She mumbled.
A little sister? Glinda was already one in her eyes. No, better than that, a best friend. A person who she could tell everything. She couldn't imagine a little sister entering their lives. What if Glinda preferred her? What if she loses her best friend because of that? And her parents? Who would they choose over her and her sister?
"Eva?" She heard Glinda saying. "Are you alright? Aren't you glad for having a little sister?"
"Of course I am" Evanora heard herself saying. "Don't worry, it's just a headache"
"Forget that now, come on, won't you say 'welcome' to your little sis? "
She took Evanora by the hand and leaded her to her friend mother's room. The advisor's woman was holding in her arms a small something, warpped in a blanket. Her husband was next to her and was looking at his daughter with infinite love.
"Evanora, come say hello to your little sister"
Evanora would rather took the blanket of her mother's hands and throw it out the window, but she obeyed. But what she saw made her melt. In the blanket was a beautiful baby with some brown hair, red lips and so big brown eyes with dense eyelashes. When the baby opened them, and looked at her sister, Evanora wondered how could she never wanting her a few minutes ago.
"She is so beautiful" she almost whispered. "How will we name her?"
"I thought about Theodora" her mother said.
"This is a beautiful name" Evanora and her father agreed.
"I promise to be the best big sister ever. " Evanora said to her new-born sister. And this was so much frankest than the "I swear" she said at her Ceremony.