After the ritual, the girls had changed a lot, both physically and spiritually. Padma and Parvati's parents had not changed much except for a lighter skin tone, but the girls were truly transformed. Before the ritual of taking the Prince's lineage, the girls' hair had not curled, but now both beauties had beautiful large waves in charcoal-black locks. They contrasted sharply with the pale skin; Padma and Parvati had acquired what the English were so proud of — a noble pallor.
The features of the girls' faces also changed slightly, not dramatically so that they were unrecognizable, but the change was significant, in that they beautifully combined the best of their former selves and what the Prince family had given them. The dark eyes of the girls became a softer shade of milk chocolate, warm and very beautiful, the previously plump lips became a little thinner but almost perfectly shaped, as did the cut of the eyes.
If earlier they had a more feminine sexuality, now their images have acquired an element of sophistication and mystery. And Padma and Parvati look like this now that they're under fifteen, but what will happen when they're twenty-one, when they reach full magical adulthood and blossom, I'm even a little scared... and a little envious of their fiancés.
And the fact that the girls will each have their own spouse isn't even a fact, it's their responsibility now, because the ritual of taking the clan has gone a bit differently than originally thought.
Originally, nothing like this was planned, but when it came down to it, the plan had to be adjusted. I do not know exactly who decided to intervene, but I suspect that without the patronage of the royal family, this would not have happened.
The crux of the matter is this: The Prince family has always been dark, at least the part of the story we know says so: The Prince family is dark, but when the ritual of acceptance began, and the magic of the family altar fixed not one last heir, but the whole family, strong and healthy, then a dramatic change began.
First, the color of the magical fire in the ritual hall of the prince-menor changed: earlier, the fires were white-green, with pungent green tongues, which abruptly changed to white-yellow, with yellow-hot petals rising from time to time above the main flame, and even later, sparks of the same color were added.
As the fire changed, so did the color of the lines pulsing across the altar, so that after about ten minutes there was no green at all. I couldn't say I liked it, because I didn't. Step by step the changes increased, and it came to the point where the magic of the family was subtly altered, changing its spectrum, and in the final stage, as a stream of other magic passed through the nuclei of the family, changing the energy in a wave and rebuilding it to a new standard, the gifts changed as well — I could feel it clearly.
It was like a strange click, or the crunch of a wooden stick being broken, and now the prince family was no longer dark, but light, changing the focus of the family's gifts. Potions remained, only the superstructure with a predilection for poisons changed to the opposite — medicines, and the strong predilection for the dark arts, especially curses, became healing.
To be honest, I was in a stupor, because I didn't know about such things and hadn't read about them, but I only finished the ritual because there is a simple rule: if a ritual is started, it must be finished, otherwise the result is unpredictable.
In general, when everything was over, I only had to deal with the consequences, including the transformed girls. Thanks to all the spirits and gods, nothing terrible happened, and later, when Padma and Parvati came to their senses, with rings of magic stone on their index fingers, we went to one of the living rooms of the manor to discuss what had happened over tea and cookies.
To our surprise, as usual, an impenetrable shadow appeared in the middle of the lighted room, looking rather unpleasant and scary, and two lumps separated from this shadow.
There was no threat, so we just waited and watched as these two shadows slowly approached the girls, hovered motionless in the air for a moment, and then turned into two blackest ravens with bright yellow fire eyes. The Prince Protector did not appear in person, or rather, did not appear in the physical world during the ritual, but his presence was still felt, and now he sent those who will stand at the head of the two equal bloodlines, Prince Protectors — Familiars.
The rings on the girls' fingers were made of solid stone, and even filled with incomprehensible magic that I could not understand — it stupidly did not allow me to do so, so the number of questions did not decrease.
As for the family guardian — the same question, i.e. it is not clear why it was his idea to adjust the balance in Britain at the expense of his family, and it is also not clear how this will affect the problems of the family prince, who previously had a completely different family name.
I'm sure the Blacks are very protective of their ancestral homeland, and the arrival of the Grimms was only felt by the High Spirits at best, so I'm not worried about any uproar over it.
And there was no such radical effect. But the changes in the magic of the Prince family will be reflected somewhere, because the family was not an outcast, Prince made alliances with other clans, actively traded and communicated, so I think this event will not go unnoticed, especially when in the society of retrogrades and chauvinists appears a family in which two girls for marriage....
Well, they can all think so, because for most clans and families the development stopped in those times when daughters and sons were married by force, without the right to choose, so it is not surprising that not only their own, but also other people's children are considered commodities.
Well, old people are not used to such anomalies as equality or even matriarchy. In the family of princes there is no rigid rule that the head was only one man, so Padma and Parvati are both heiresses, because they will head their equal branch, in fact, the guardian of the family so cleverly laid the clan, in which one branch will be dominated by one gift, and the other — the second, and they will be necessary for each other to strengthen and preserve the blood and heritage, so there is no need to fear a split.
Another advantage was that, unlike the blacks, the renewed prince didn't have to look for a mate among the clans, because those clans were a bunch of snobs, and there were rarely any suitable people. They don't have a mandatory rule to only associate with the old clans, as many of the codes dictate.
I do not even deny that my description of the situation with the current lord is somewhat inconsistent, but I have ironclad excuses: I am nervous because of the unexpected, I am confused, and it is difficult for me to realize that it is possible to take such a step and change the direction of the species.
To realize it, I need time and peace, but it turned out to be difficult, because Hogwarts nobody canceled, and the girls are not that it is possible to return there, they have to do it because they will live here, in Britain, that is, and to communicate with local vipers, they will have to anyway.