In the ancient castle hall, dim candlelight flickered across the mottled walls. Light and shadow danced over Morgan and Ian's faces, making their expressions all the clearer.
Morgan looked relaxed and teasing. After staring blankly for a moment, Ian's eyes widened, his expression utterly incredulous, as though he could scarcely accept such major news.
Indeed.
Morgan's mention of a senior sister and grand-disciple had left Ian dumbfounded. He stood there in a daze for quite a while before he Came to One's Senses. Ian knew perfectly well that the senior sister and grand-disciple Morgan mentioned was most likely the Evil Queen from the Snow White story—the traitorous apprentice Morgan had once set up.
The old witch was actually his Cheap Senior Sister?
The Evil Queen from Snow White?
The more Ian thought about it, the more surreal it felt—who could have imagined it? Who could have guessed things would turn out this way? His first meeting with his Cheap Senior Sister had actually taken place in such a setting!
He had no idea whether his Cheap Senior Sister knew that the person she intended to "possess" came from the same lineage as her. But after Morgan's revelation, Ian finally understood why, when he had fought the old witch, she had also used methods that changed reality through cognition—and had even spoken words Morgan had once said.
So that was it.
They came from the same lineage!
Well!
By that reckoning... the old witch—his Cheap Senior Sister—really was his grand-disciple. After all, the first wizard Morgan had learned magic from was him.
Of course.
As for Medivh, Ian definitely did not dare show off before the Morgan in front of him, much less admit the grand-disciple relationship Morgan herself had brought up.
Childhood Morgan and present-day Morgan absolutely could not be