Alexia
My eyes slowly flutter open, and I find myself staring at the ceiling, feeling both tired and confused.
A dream? I haven't had one of those in a while.
But why would I dream about the comncent ceremony? Nothing particularly important happened there. Other than that guy getting a crush on Astrid during it.
I continue staring up at the ceiling for several seconds in silence before opening my status.
Na: Alexia Knight
Species: Quantum Reaper(T4)
Level: 758
Class: Quantum Reaper
Soul: 31,021/66,262.5
VIT: 2,272
DEX: 2,780
STR: 2,272
MAG: 3,029
N: 3,029
Racial Skills
Active Skills
Passive Skills
General Skills
Not even halfway filled yet.
Great.
Guess I'm stuck waiting here until it fully regenerates. Because I'm not going out there again unless it's filled to the brim.
Nothing but silence fills the tree trunk I'm in as I stare up at the ceiling. Then after several minutes of silence, I move my hands up and begin tapping on my collarbone in rhythm with mom's song. Sohow finding myself quietly humming it as well.
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An act that Astrid says I do all the ti, but I don't think I do. Probably.
I just continue staring up at the ceiling while patting my collarbone, or more accurately, the scale armor on top of it, humming away. Feeling rather bored.
Kind of wish I brought a video ga to play or sothing.
That thought has blinking before I frown.
Am I really considering the idea of bringing video gas around with ? As if I were one of those cheating dragons?
No. I can't turn into one of those cheaters.
If I go around carrying gas everywhere I go then that'll be the first step towards becoming like one of them and flipping the board every ti I lose.
And I won't allow myself to beco like that.
I continue tapping away at the rhythm for several more minutes, just watching my soul gradually rise. Then the minutes turn into hours.
But throughout it, I only stop humming a few tis. And for so reason, I feel a few tears leak out of my eyes as I hum.
I ignore them though and just continue staring at the ceiling.
Eventually I stop humming, leaving staring at the ceiling in silence.
Mom…
I slowly feel my eyes closing again. And when they reopen, I find that I'd fallen asleep once more. But this ti without any dreams. And I find my status still floating above .
With my soul filled to the brim now.
A peaceful sleep.
Nice, I guess.
I finally sit up, my hair falling over my shoulder in the process as I look down at my hands in my lap. Then I look around the tree trunk to find a wooden door at the edge of the trunk.
Hmm.
I climb to my feet, feeling a little wobbly due to it being the first ti I've stood up since almost dying and since my naps. But the unsteady feeling barely lasts more than a few seconds before I regain my normal balance.
Right. Ti to see what this hidden area is about.
No ti for… whatever I was doing.
And I can't let myself grow too apathetic about battle. Too arrogant in my apathy. As if everything will just work out in the end.
Apathy is nice and all, since it ans less worrying and stuff, but it's not so nice if it ends up with dying. Leaving Astrid behind almost on her own.
Although at least Mom is still alive so she wouldn't be entirely alone. Sa with Gramps, even if I'm pretty sure Astrid is slightly irked by him still. Due to his lying about who he was.
I pause mid-step at that thought, only to shake my head and continue walking. Reaching my hand out and opening the door.
Only to find another tree trunk room on the other side.
Huh?
The room looks almost the exact sa as the one I'm in now.
Odd…
I step through the door into the room, and the door closes on its own behind . Then I walk across the room to the door on the other side.
Why do I get the feeling…
I reach for the door and open it, revealing another room just like this and the last one.
…that this room is just repeating itself over and over again.
Okay, why is this happening? And what am I supposed to do?
I repeat the process three more tis, just passing through one door after another after another. But every single ti I just end up in another room exactly like the second one, with two doors on opposite ends including the one I enter the room through.
Eventually a thought cos to mind and after entering another room and letting the door close behind , I turn around and reopen the door. And surprisingly, it leads to a slightly different room. One with three doors.
Of the doors, there's the one I'm entering through, along with one on the wall to the right and one on the wall to the left.
Thought so, but I need to make sure before I co to believe it fully.
So I walk into the room and step up to one of the other doors before opening it. And finding myself right back into the second room again.
Yep. Thought so.
I step through the room, let the door close behind , and turn around to open the door behind again. And just as expected, I find myself in that new room once again.
It's a puzzle.
One that I have to navigate by passing through specific doors in a specific order, with the number and placent of doors varying with each room.
I pass through the door on the left this ti around and judging by the new doors in the room, it looks like the correct one. Because this ti around there are four doors. Then I pass through the one directly across from , and end up back at the start once more.
This is going to be a pain, isn't it?
I let out a sigh before retracing my path.
It definitely will be.
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