Okay, this is a weird situation I’m in. I was a 40-year-old woman called Aurora, a hard-working underachiever nerd from Earth, and I died in a café while petting a cat and waiting for my coffee and chocolate.
I don’t understand how I died, but it looked like sothing was tearing apart the tispace itself right before my last mont. The next mont, I was in the body of a newborn baby, in a weird world with beastkin and elves.
But my mother is a regular human, so I think I’m human myself, but there aren’t mirrors here, so I’m not sure about my appearance.
My hair seems to be fire-red, though, the sa color as my mother Lillian’s. I hope I’ve also inherited her golden eyes. If I inherit her face and body, I will be able to call myself gorgeous unironically.
That would be great if I only weren’t a slave. Yeah, there’s that part, my mother is a slave, therefore I’m a slave as well.
All seventeen won in this big room are slaves, including . The number keeps changing because sotis a woman is taken out never to co back, and sotis another is brought in.
I’m the only child in here, having been born inside this room, and I’ve never left it in the three years I’ve been in this world. All the adult won have collars, but I don’t.
I think that’s because magic collars are too expensive to have children-sized ones, and also because nobody expects a three-year-old girl to be able to escape a slave den.
Well, they aren’t wrong, you know. There isn’t much my body can do in the state I’m in. But I’ve decided that I’ll break free and save my mother and everyone else.
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In my past life, I was very fond of occultism and mystic practices. I used to ditate and joined several different mystic orders.
I’ve studied the magic of Earth, a sterile task if you ask , and I found that most of them were charlatanism, and even the ones that were real practices didn’t bring results besides so peace of mind and control of my emotions.
Since the first day of my life as Aurea, I decided to keep practicing ditation daily. The biggest difference of doing it in this world is that I was able to feel... sothing.
I don’t know how to describe it, but there is sothing inside , an undercurrent of energy, condensed like a gem deep inside . I’ve been trying to tap on it since I first noticed it on my first birthday, and sotis I felt it just beyond my grasp.
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Today is one of those days, but I’m not giving up.
I’m lying in the bed I share with my mother, while she chats with her friend. My eyes are closed, and my consciousness is completely turned towards my core. I can feel it, like a damd river waiting to be let free.
It’s right there, a dimd light, waiting for . I reach for it with all my might, stretching my consciousness just a bit more. I need to get to it, to understand and control it. I breathe deeper, focusing, concentrating, diving more and more inside my own self.
Sothing is blocking from reaching it, like a mbrane that separates it from the rest of . But it is part of , I wail in my inner world, it can’t be separated, isolated. I tear the mbrane apart with sheer willpower, releasing the flow of energy that was blocked.
The energy rushes through my body, so quickly that it takes completely by surprise. It has all colours, like a beautiful rainbow, but the most prominent of all is purple. It sends electric jolts throughout my body, but it doesn’t hurt. On the contrary, I’m filled with happiness and a sense of power.
The energy rush keeps coming, in bigger and bigger waves. It’s overwhelming. I feel like drowning in the flow, and I try to focus it, to contain it. Doubts and fear cross my mind as I feel everything fading away to black.
I open my eyes, and my mother is at my side, looking at worried.
"Aurea? Goddess blessing, you are awake now."
She hugs tight, clearly relieved to see awake.
"Huh? Did sothing happen?"
I ask her, thinking that I’ve never seen her worried like this. Did I pass out?
"You were unconscious for half a day, darling. You-"
"You shone with a weird light, and then the magic lamps on the ceiling stopped working, Aurea. It took us a bit of effort to convince the overseer that we didn’t know what happened."
My mother has started explaining, but was interrupted by her friend, the cat beastkin lady, Cambucy. It looks like I successfully unlocked whatever was inside , and that it caused quite a commotion.
"I’m sorry," I say, lowering my head. "I think I might have activated sothing inside of ."
My mother gently pets my head. "There’s nothing to be ashad of, Aurea. Now, tell everything about that thing you think that you activated."
I look into her eyes, and tell her about how I was feeling this undercurrent of energy inside , and how I forced through so barrier that was blocking it.
"Hmmmm." My mom, Lillian, puts her hand on her chin, thinking. "What you are telling seems to be what is called a Mana Core. It’s sothing every living being possesses, but very few have it so strong that it can be activated. Normally, they activate naturally during puberty, but you forced the activation of yours at this age. It’s ten years too early, my dear."
She says those words while looking very worried, so I can’t help but shrink in place, fearing for what could happen.
"Is this... a bad thing? I just wanted to be strong so I can set us free." I start crying and sobbing. I try to stop it, but my body doesn’t obey. The old lady inside of is embarrassed by this display, but the body I’m living in has its own emotional reactions.
My mother holds in a gentle embrace, trying to soothe . "Don’t worry, dear. It’s in fact a great thing. I’ve never heard of anyone awakening their magical power at this age, which ans I can start training you right now. I’m sure you’ll grow to beco a very strong girl."
"You should control yourself, though." Cambucy butted in again. "If the overseers notice that you have that power, they’ll put a collar on you and sell you very quickly."
My eyes dart from my mother to Cambucy and back again, betraying my conflicting emotions. I want to train and learn to use this power, but I don’t want to be sold. And I... wait, wait, wait. Stop right there, Mom. What do you an you’ll train ? Do you know how to use magic?
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