EXPLANATION/ MAGIC.

Thinking back on it, those first few days in the forest were really stressful, after all, everyone’s emotions were at their height… mine included even if I didn’t realize it right away. So In hindsight, perhaps drawing attention to myself wasn’t the greatest of ideas, but I had already said something so I had no choice but to finish what I started.

“I—” As I began to speak, I realized that explaining everything outright might have been a little too on the nose, but I didn’t think there would be a better way to explain it, so I took the middle ground and went vague. “I had a strange dream last night.” I paused in an attempt to grasp the words I was looking for. “umm, in that dream, there was this voice and this weird screen like thing…” I intentionally, left out the actual name of the screen to avoid confusing people.

Before I got a chance to finish my thought however, the skeptical guy from earlier cut me off. “Wait are you about to try and get us to believe some dream you had?” I turned over to him, he had an irritated scowl on his face. Something about the way he looked at me as if he was above this Crisis pissed me off to no end.

I glared at him, although I probably didn’t look that threatening. “Honestly will you just shut the hell up already, Asshole?” I wanted to end it right there but I needed to blow some steam off my chest. “maybe you’d learn something if you actually decided not to be a dumbass and let me finish speaking.” I took another deep breath and was about to get back to the matter at hand but the skeptical guy started speaking again:

“ouch well, this little girl has some fangs, I wonder who taught you to be such a little— ” His face shifted and that scowl he had going on was replaced by a poker face “—Anyway, give me one good reason to listen to your stupid spiel.”

I was about to tell him off, but the lanky guy cut into our conversation. “Hey, You both need to settle down.” The lanky guy looked specifically at my instigator and continued speaking. “And you… at least let her finish.”

The skeptical guy sighed and put his hands behind his head. “Hey man, I don’t know why you’re singling me out… she’s the one who had the outburst after all.” He looked around the crowd and then put his head down in a defeated matter. “Ah, well I guess you’re right. I was kinda being a nuisance.”

He began to walk away, but as he did, he said the following to no one in particular. “By the way, my names David.” ‘No one asked, buddy.’ As his body disappeared behind the crowd.

I exhaled and focused my attention back onto everyone else. “Phew, I’m sorry about that… I just needed to blow off some steam.” I apologized quickly so I could avoid the scolding I could feel looming over me. Nobody said anything though so I finally continued with the explanation. “But yeah anyway, I had a dream last night, but now I’m not even sure if it was actually a dream or not, it was more of a…”

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As I recalled the ‘dream’ I had, everyone was staring at me. I couldn’t tell if it was because they thought what I was saying was BS or not though. either way, I was finished so all I had to do was sit down and quietly wait for questions.

The lanky guy was the first to speak. “If your story is true then, someone or something really is to blame for this...” His face had a slight feeling of worry in the looked as if he became deep in thought

The alien guy injected his comment. “So then it REALLY IS ALIENS!?”

One of the people in the crowd groaned in anger. “Is screaming about aliens your only character trait or something?”

The counting girl tried to stop the situation before it actually became one. “Now, now he’s just excited.”

The lanky guy caught my attention again by placing a hand on my small shoulder. “You went into far too much detail for it to be a simple lie but…” he looked directly at me. “That stuff about “skills and magic” and whatnot… it feels like you’re reaching a little bit.”

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I sighed and gave him a deadpan expression. “You say that but, you and everyone else here look like a fantasy race from some terrible knock-off.” He brought up a good point though, how did magic work? Doing it somehow would be the easiest way to prove my memories true.

So I closed my eyes and tried to concentrate. The energy I felt from earlier was still there, yet now that I actually thought about it, it wasn’t a physical type of energy because I didn’t feel more energetic; No, it was more of a sort of mental energy.

As I began to concentrate more, I noticed where that energy was coming from, my heart and my brain. They were like two ‘wells’, and the power that poured from them was like ‘water’, weakly flowing to every other part of my body. I took a deep breath and tried to force those two ‘wells’ into high gear. The ‘streams’, the energy was in grew, and the amount of energy within grew as well.

I took another deep breath as the energy which had just barely reached the edges of my limbs, began to overflow. I was able to maintain the amount of energy inflow but I couldn’t figure out what to do next.

“WHAT IN THE WORLD?!” I was suddenly awakened from the trance I didn’t notice I was in. I opened my eyes and saw everyone, they were all looking at me and, they either had shocked or confused expressions on their faces.

“What? What’s wrong?”

The counting girl answered my question: “You suddenly stopped responding to anything and—”

The Alien guy finished her sentence. “— And then you started glowing!”

“Oh.”

My unconcerned sounding answer must’ve confused him because the lanky guy immediately asked me a question. “Why did that just happen, What in the world did you do??”

I yawned before responding to him. “I figured it out.”

“Figured what out?”

“Magic.”

“Pardon?” the lanky guy looked at me with skeptical eyes, most of the people in the crowd looked dumbfounded.

Instead of talking, I decided to try and replicate what I did earlier. I followed all the same steps, but instead of just pushing the energy around my whole body, I forced it into the palm of my right hand. I opened my eyes but still concentrated on the energy, this time, just trying to keep it from subsiding back into the rest of my body.

I still had no idea what to do as the next step, and the people around me weren’t helping me stay focused either. My thoughts started to drift and I found myself thinking about food, I hadn’t had a good meal since at least two days ago, and I hadn’t eaten anything since before I started streaming last night…. oh what I would do for a bottle of water right now.

There was a sudden feeling in my chest, and the energy that I had forced into my palm dissipated, and my hands felt incredibly wet. I looked down to my right hand, a sphere of water had formed around it. “it worked!?” At my exclamation, the uniformity of the sphere dissolved itself and the water dropped to the ground.

The counting girl had a shocked expression on her face. “What was that just now!?”

The lanky guy was surprised too but tried to hide it. “I-I think that was the magic she was talking about.” I simply nodded my head as a response.

One of the people in the crowd asked the question that I don’t doubt was in everyone’s mind. “How did you do it?”

“Basically, all I did was move all that energy I was feeling before into my hands.”

The lanky guy looked at me with a slight tinge of irritation in his eyes. “That—that doesn’t explain anything.”

I exhaled as I responded to him. “It’s about as easy to explain as it is to do.”

The alien guy decided it was his turn to talk. “So is that a good thing or…”

I thought over what to do for a split second, but decided actually being helpful was the best course of action. “Ugh, I guess I can try and explain it...” I took another deep breath. “I’m sure you’ve all felt something flowing through you since this whole thing started, right?” the people were silent, I’m sure some of them were only just realized ‘that feeling’ I was talking about. “Basically, all I did to get my hand to glow was, direct that ‘flow’ into my hand.”

I looked back at the crowd again, some of them were closing their eyes, while others were listening intently. I looked down at my hand, it was still wet. “Umm… I’m not sure why the water appeared out of thin air…but if I had to guess then, I’d say that it was probably because I was thinking about water at the time.”

I looked at the crowd for the final time and, those who weren’t trying to copy me looked as if they were expecting me to say more. “Um, that’s all I have to say…”

The lanky guy’s eyes jolted open. “That’s it?” I nodded my head. “We,ll I guess you wouldn’t be a genius with something like this after one try.”

No soon as he finished his sentence, the alien guy suddenly shouted out. “OH! I DOING IT!” Everyone collectively looked at him, his legs were on fire. His eyes were open; it didn’t look like he was focusing at all. He moved his hand and body around like some sort of fake martial artist... in other words, he looked really stupid while still having somehow mastered it.

I stared at him for a couple more seconds but my attention was suddenly ripped away from him by a distinctly boring voice.

“Excuse me…” it was Gareth, he had moved to stand next to me, in the near-center of the crowd. “We should move back to a more important conversation.”

The lanky guy looked at him. “Right, sorry we got off track.” He beckoned everyone to spread out again.