The maiden looked at me for what seems like an eternity. "You.. really aren't a mage apprentice? This makes no sense, how can a Newborn child have your level of awareness. Even if you're a prismatic core, your inherent memories should not be this stable or have a whole different life in them."

The firefly lady looked flustered, worried, and sad. I managed to get my emotions back in control and ask.

"M-miss Q'il pess, I really am not a mage! I swear! am just a normal human, I don't even know how I got here!"

I got worried she would throw a fireball at me for real if I didn't clear up the misunderstanding. When I was ready to spill out my whole life at her, she snapped out of it and replied to me.

"It's Q'illtress! or Q'ill!..Mhmm..human? Dear what are you talking about, is your inherent memory over taking your original ego?"

She got close to my disembodied face, reached out, and made contact with me. I felt a warm current run through my body, the feeling was that of a mother's embrace.

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"Child you... You really aren't under the control of a spell, I can feel the 3rd Circle Spell: [Clear Mind], cleared some blockage in you but didn't find a foreign power affecting your consciousness."

I didn't understand what she was talking about, but whatever she did was starting to clear my train of thought. Recollecting myself, I started to piece together the bits of information she gave me. First I was not home, second, there's magic in this place and lastly, I am not human anymore.

I try to look at myself but can only see the ground or the Maidens large hand... Wait large hand? looking at her face is small and delicate while her hand is enlarging the closer it was to me. It was like I was looking through the peephole of a door. I decided to ask the maiden while keeping things that might get me killed to myself. As I started to build up my determination to talk to her, she started talking.

"Dear you seem far smarter than other Cores your age; although this would normally not be a bad thing, at this rate, your instincts will awaken far earlier than needed to make a proper defense. That and the fact you're a one in a billion Prismatic core, the moment your hunger starts and you open the way to your Core Room all elements in 500 miles will be devoured, Alarming all races to investigate the cause. Your chance to make it past a week is nearly zero." She said with a hopeless face.

"What?!!?"