15 minutes earlier Mikaelsons house
Adrian's pov:
"Elijah, now that Adrian is awake I am going to inform mother of it you keep eye don't take a step out of the house." Finn told commandingly as a elder brother and left.
I heard this all obviously and asked Elijah curiously "Where did aunt went after treating me?"
Obviously he didn't know only told that after feeding him some potion she stormed out must have gone to look for Ayana I presume.
I am curious what would they do 'hiss! My head hurts thinking about it.'
Just minutes after Finn left Esther returned home from Ayana's house with Finn.
She looked around seemingly to see if Mikael is back.
She came to my side put her hand on my forehead Esther stood nearby, arms crossed, her expression unreadable.
"How are you feeling, child?" Esther's voice was calm and motherly if I hadn't known her self from the show I would have been lead to believe she was teressa or something.
"Better," Adrian replied, rubbing his head. "Just… tired, I guess. Everyone's acting like I fought a bear or something."
Esther's lips curved faintly. "From what I heard, you did a feat no less that that."
Adrian frowned in confusion. "I didn't mean to do anything. I just… shouted. Then everything went white for a moment."
She studied him carefully, every flicker of his expression. "Has this ever happened before? Anything… strange around you?"
"Strange?" He tilted his head, thinking."I don't know? Maybe I haven't noticed actually."
Esther's gaze softened for a brief moment—he was honest, even unaware of what he might be. Yet her mind churned. A child with no witch lineage using power instinctively? Impossible.
She smiled faintly, hiding her doubt.
"now that you feel alright go home don't tell your grandma about today she will be worried and sleep tight for today." She suggested.
She looked at her kids "who will escort Adrian home he can't go alone"just as she said that Kol, Klaus and Rebekah raised their hand.
Kol and Nicklaus will go "you stay Rebekah you have been very naughty recently as she took Rebekah into her embrace."
'i think it's going well atleat they aren't seeing me as a threat for now.' Adrian thought as he was on his way home escorted by Klaus and kol.
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Night had fallen fully over the village, a moonless black that pressed against the rooftops and trees. The stillness carried weight, thick and expectant, as though the earth itself waited for something to be revealed.
Ayana had been poring over her books for hours, frustration growing with every turn of the page. None of the ancestral tomes, grimoires, or family records contained even a hint of explanation for the boy's strange magical awakening.
"If records can't answer me. They themselves shall answer my questions." Ayana murmured confidently.
Finally, she stood, her decision made. Walked to the door of her house which was at the edge of the village very close to the woods and looked up and confirming that today was a new moon that she smiled.
"Perfect! Spirits are by side today is new moon barrier separating the dead and alive is weakened."
She gathered her materials: the small totem, the trinkets, and most importantly, a tiny vial of a psycoactive herb extract , bones of some dead animals .
In a clearing just outside the village close to her house, in a clearing between large trees this is her personal magical ceremony site she always performs complex magics in this place.
Today beneath the black sky in new moon, she knelt. With steady hands, she drew a circle in the dirt with a animal bone from that she drew 5 lines each leading to the 5 trees and at the base of tree she shoves 5 animal bones at the base of the trees fire on a torchsprinkled with crushed bone at the base of each tree lighting up the site fully.
The totem, wrapped with Adrian's hair, was held by her as she knelt inside the centre of the circle and took out 5 bones of dead animals was placed carefully at the point of contact of circle and lines leading to each tree as she muttered "bones of the dead!" In a ritualistic tone.
As she placed the totem with Adrian's hair in front of her inside the circle and cut open her plans and blood dripped on each of the 5 bones muttering "blood of the living".
Her pulse quickened. Taking a deep breath, she uncorked the vial and tilted it to her lips. The herbal liquid burned faintly as she swallowed, its taste bitter and sharp. She could feel it begin to tangle in her mind, loosening the edges of control just enough to start halucinating which makes easier to connect with dead spirits.
"This is the only way," she whispered, voice low and firm. She set her hands on the totem, focusing. "Spirits of my ancestors, I call to you. Guide me. Show me the truth behind the boy and the power he bears." as the last drop of blood fell on the totem with Adrian's hair.
The air shifted. The world around her seemed to grow quieter, and yet a low hum vibrated beneath her feet. Wind blew fainly enough to send shivers down ones spine at night, the torches at the base of trees burned fiercely.
Voices came first as whispers, distant but insistent. Then clearer — echoes of the ancestors, speaking in tongues older than memory, their cadence guiding her thoughts, their presence settling around her like a protective veil.
She shivered, half in awe, half from the intensity of the connection. Every word of her ancestors was a heard, from a 3rd person perspective it seems like the person muttering to herself in exhatated tone with various emotions yet to hear what she is muttering you can her faint words but can't completely form a sentence.
Minutes passed — which felt like hours; time lost meaning in the haze. Finally, Ayana opened her eyes, the glow of the circle dimming around her. She rose to her knees, her hands shaking slightly, but her gaze steady. Relief and triumph colored her expression.
"We have found a treasure," she whispered aloud, a big smile spreading across her face.
Her body still in daze due to herbs but her mind was excited with what she had encountered she excitedly almost felt like running to the boy but she calmed herself down with reason.
The night remained silent, yet the wind carried a sense of something larger stirring. Ayana allowed herself a final glance at the circle, then carefully gathered the totem and herbs, ready to return to the village.
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