Chapter 2: WAKING UP (PART TWO)
Selene laid on Sophia's bed and sulked, wishing more than anything that there was a face she could punch.
Sophia, meanwhile, was exploring her room. When she first woke up she spent as much time as she could trying to puzzle out everything that had happened and was happening to her, before Selene had suddenly burst into the room.
Judging by the decor of the room, Sophia gathered that they had been deposited into either the regency era or victorian era, or an entirely different world that resembled those times. There was nothing modern she could see around her. No plastic, no technology, not even any pants. Her entire wardrobe was just dresses. Selene would hate having to wear them, Sophia was sure.
She searched around the desk next, finding a quill and an inkwell and some old looking paper sitting on top. She then opened one of the desk drawers and found a leather bound book in it, and upon opening it discovered that it was a diary, one that was written by whoever occupied this body before she arrived.
She pulled the chair out from under the desk, sat down, and started to read.
The first thing she discovered was that this body had the same name as her, Sophia, which was a relief. The second thing she found was that she and Selene, who also had the same name, were sisters in this universe. Sophia was the elder sister, being born a year before Selene. Their relationship was horrible, apparently. As she flicked through the diary, it seemed that every other day they were getting into fights. It was never clear how it started, and this world's Sophia had never written down just what exactly made them hate each other so much, which was annoying.
She found their full names eventually, somewhere towards the middle of the diary. Sophia was Sophia Juliet Ellsworth, and Selene was Selene Margaret Ellsworth. Seeing their full names, Sophia was momentarily surprised by the feeling of familiarity, as if she'd read them somewhere before.
With a start, Sophia remembered exactly where she'd seen those names. It was in a book! But to her displeasure, it was a trashy romance novel. One of her cousins had given it to her for her thirteenth birthday because she found a small, pointless side character that was also named Sophia in the book. It was clear that she was just pawning off an old book she didn't want anymore, and happened to find the excuse that there was a character named Sophia in the book to make dumping it on her seem more charitable.
Sophia intended to throw the book away at first, since it was the opposite of what she liked to read, but her mother had just taken her other books away from her as a punishment for making a small bomb and setting it off in her bully's house, and she was getting desperately bored.
So she read all of 'Saintess of the Stars' in one night. It was as awful as she had expected it to be. The plot was about a commoner girl named Anastasia who was utterly normal, except for the fact that she was exceptionally gorgeous, discovering a fallen star one night and gaining mystical powers from it. After she touched the star, she gained the power of healing, and was able to heal any wound and illness. She discovered she had this ability when one day she came across a wounded boy in an alleyway. He was bloody and beaten up and was about to die when Anastasia found him. When she touched him, a bright light shone from her hands and she healed most his wounds in an instant. He was still unconscious, however, so Anastasia decided to bring him to her house and help him recover. When he woke up, he told her his name was 'Cass' and that he was attacked, but didn't elaborate. While the worst of his wounds were healed, there were still some minor ones that Anastasia hadn't been able to heal and so she let him stay for a few days while he recovered fully.
From there the story went about as expected. They fell in love while she was nursing him to health, and then he eventually went on to reveal that he was actually the first prince of Astrum, Cassius, and as they were already in love at that point he proposed to her and brought her to the palace to make her his princess. They fell in love fast, but only because the second half of the book was more about Anastasia's new life in the palace than their growing relationship. She ended up discovering that on the day Cassius was attacked, he had actually been attacked by assassins that were sent by the faction of people that supported the second prince, Julius, as an attempt to kill him and to make sure the second prince could ascend to the throne instead. The story tried to introduce political intrigue, but it was done shoddily, and by introducing that plot they seemed to have forgotten entirely about the fact that Anastasia had mysterious healing powers. It never came up again after the first half of the book, despite the fact that the damn title was named after it. Not once in the book did they even refer to Anastasia as a Saintess, making Sophia believe that the author had come up with the name way before they came up with the story.
As for Sophia's character, she was just an unimportant character that was mentioned about twice. The more important character was actually Selene, who was the villainess of the book and was in charge of making Anastasia's relationship with Cassius as hard as possible. Before Cassius met and fell in love with Anastasia, he was meant to be married to Selene. Their engagement was cancelled, obviously, after Cassius returned with Anastasia. The king and queen were so happy that Cassius came back alive and well that they just let him do what he want and cancelled his engagement with Selene immediately. Selene, of course, was not happy about this and did whatever she could to try and get in-between Cassius' relationship with Anastasia. Sophia was mentioned offhand a couple times as Selene's sister, but her character was never elaborated on past that.
In the end, after Selene cooks up a plot to kill Anastasia, last minute Cassius storms in to save Anastasia, and kills Selene in the mean time. Sophia doesn't get mentioned at all after that, and the main couple live happily ever after.
Sophia sighed. Was this karma? Was she paying the price for starting one of the biggest and deadliest gangs in the world with Selene? Was this penance for all the lives she ended, directly and indirectly?
Well, whoever did this would be in for a shock, because Sophia was not going to take this sitting down. All they've done was give her and Selene a new playground, and she was determined to raze this one to the ground.
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