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Notes: Short mini chapter update as promised. Next chapter will include more pirates. Also: it's cosplay season so please please please bare with me for a few weeks. I'm doing some last minute preparations/cosplays and I'm trying to get out chapters and paint. But on that note: is anyone is going to Anime Matsuri?! :3
As expected, Eren certainly wasn't the first person to be kidnapped by Kitts Verman. In fact, there had been many more before him. But there had been only one other boy.
It had been a wintery day, snow on the ground still when Kitts first laid eyes on the delicate blond. And unable to resist the urge, Kitts snatched the frail thing up.
Little did he know he had mistaken the young blond for a woman.
However, Armin was thrown into the small room (as Eren had been locked in) and kept there for days without food. Or so Kitts believed.
Armin simply pulled a piece of thread from one of the curtains, waved his hand over it and muttered a spell. And in seconds Armin had a bowl of soup, sandwich and a glass of milk in front of him. He kept time with an enchanted pendent: one that would grow dark when it was night and gradually glow orange when morning approached.
He never panicked though he was questioned by Kitts.
And every question came with a firm slap for proper answers.
"I've told you already!" Armin spat, "I can do magic!"
"I don't believe you!"
It was then that Armin formulated his plan. "If I can prove to you I can do magic, you have to let me go. And if not, then I will no longer resist you."
"And what sort of magic will you be performing then?"
"I'm going to spin thread into gold," Armin said. "But in order for me to do that, I need a spinning wheel."
So Kitts went into town, bragging about his new bride being able to spin gold and how his house was filled with golden thread. He presented Armin with a spinning wheel. It was set up and Armin sat down by it. He ran his hands over the spinning wheel and started to pull thread through. At first there was no gold, only more thread. But in seconds, Armin started to pull gold through the wheel.
Kitts was delighted. "You will stay here and spin gold for me forever."
But Armin anticipated the man's response.
"Then you must never touch the spinning wheel," Armin hummed. "Because if you do, you'll live forever and I will be forced to stay here."
And as expected, Kitts grabbed the spinning wheel, pricking his finger on the spindle. A simple sleeping curse fell over him almost instantly. Because as Armin spun the golden thread, he did it in order to place a simple curse over the spinning wheel.
Armin rose, picking up the threads of gold and folding it neatly. He placed it all into a small pouch he had. He knew the sleeping curse was not eternal, like some witches were capable of casting, but it would last at least two weeks.
He picked up the keys Kitts kept on him and opened the door. He locked it as he left because there was no need for Kitts to escape too soon.
Armin then left and continued on his journey to learn more magic.