“We elves are different from humans in two major ways, our lifespans are about 10 times longer, and our Ether pools as well as our Ether flow is much larger, this makes us great mages, so we learn magic from a young age to be better at it when we’re older,” she explained

“Now then the size of your Ether pool and flow are determent by that of your parents, but sometimes a mutation can happen that makes your Ether flow as large or even larger than your Ether pool, if this happens you can instantly dump all of your magic out at once, this may sound good but it also brings difficulty in the control of the amount of mana you want to use in a spell and it also brings the risk of losing control of that flow” she continued

“Let me paint you a picture of an incident 300 years ago:”

*In the grand elven city of krysivavia hiafekra (kingdom of the heavenly forest) 933 A.E.*

“Mother can I go to Mildrid?” asked a young female elf

“Sure sweetie, as long as you come home before dinner,” said her mother as the girl happily walked to the door small home

“Oh, and don’t do anything that you wouldn’t do if I was there!” yelled the mother at the last moment

“I won’t” replied the girl happily as she closed the door to their small home behind her

She and her mother lived in a house on one of the higher branches of one of the giant life trees that were all scattered throughout the heavenly forest. these trees would have had sweet red fruits hanging from their smaller branches, but autumn had already started, and all the fruits had either been eaten or had fallen to the ground to start a new generation of trees. The leaves had already started to turn yellow, and the cold autumn air gave the small girl a shiver and blush as she walked down one of the paths that was carved into the thick branch of the tree.

Her friend Mildrid lived more towards the base of the branch where it was attached to the trunk of the tree, this was about a 10-minute walk, but the young elf had walked it so many times that she could walk it blindfolded and backwards. When she reached Mildrid's house, she knocked on the door which was opened by her father,

“Ah, it’s you, Mildrid is just upstairs playing in her room.” he said with a smile

“Ok, thanks!” she said with a smile as she ran inside and up the stairs

When she entered the room, she was greeted by the sight of a small red-haired elf girl with freckles playing with a small Sweetberry-fox that they had found in the forest below with a broken leg and subsequently adopted, these creatures were normally very shy and run away but this one had been with them so long that it didn’t care anymore, and it even had started playing with them.

“Oh, it’s you!” she happily said

“Yeah, I wanted to come see how Bery was doing” the young girl said as she sat down and started petting their fox Bery (we named him that because he likes berries)

“I see, so you didn’t even come here for me.” said Mildrid as she put on a fake frown

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“Oh, come on... it’s not like that, anyway, how has your day been?” she asked

“My day has been great, we started learning about magic in school!” Mildrid said as she chuckled

“No way, what did they teach you?” the girl asked with great excitement

Mildrid was a year higher in school than her, so she started learning it sooner, but magic was their passion, it was actually the way their friendship had started 15 years ago. They had both taken a magic class for young children and there we started talking about magic and other things that they were interested in, and they found out that they had a lot in common. she had always wanted to become a mage like her father who had died in an incident that she was too young to understand.

“We just learned how to control how much magic you use, and we learned some basic spells” Mildrid said

“Teach me, teach me!” the little girl said as she jumped up

“Ok, ok, but I don’t know if we’re allowed?” she said with a concerned face

“Oh, it’s ok what could happen?” the girl said confidently

At that magic class for children, they had learned our magic type which was Fire/ Ice for both of them

“Now then this spell is for creating a small flame in your palm which can keep you warm or help you cook things. It goes something like this: great God, help us relieve this frigid body of its cold with the warm embrace of flame.” she said as a small flickering fire appeared in her palm

“Woah cool, now it’s my turn!” the girl said as she lifted her palm

“Great God, help us relieve this frigid body of its cold with the warm embrace of flame!” she said as she felt her body weaken and collapse as her mind blanked and she lost consciousness

In their childish forgetfulness they had forgotten the training for control, and since there weren't any trained mages in the room to watch for anything going wrong there was no one to stop what had just happened. Even though she was only a child her Ether pool was already large and that combined with her condition, which is known as instant-flow, made for a disaster of epic proportions.

The explosion was blinding and incinerated everything within a 100-meter radius. Mildrid, her parents, Bery and the houses that surrounded them were gone in an instant, everyone in there was atomized and a shockwave shook the tree like an earthquake and the blast of air destroyed houses on the branches next to ours. The heat had set the tree ablaze and the fire was quickly spreading up and around the tree to the rest of the forest. The explosion had cut the branch from the trunk, and it was now falling with destructive power. It hit multiple other inhabited branches causing mass death before it came crashing down on the forest floor. The little girl woke up on the forest floor with nothing but a few cuts and bruises and a minor concussion,

“What happened, I only remember saying the spell Mildrid had taught me?” she said to herself, confused

She looked around but didn’t see any signs of Mildrid or even her house, and that’s when she thought of her mother and how she might be. The branch hadn’t rolled over so she could follow the road, but the entire surrounding was destroyed and unrecognizable. Luckily, she had walked the road many times before so she knew the road well, when she reached the place where her house should have been she found nothing but a pile of rubble with a collapsed roof on top

“MOM!!!” she screamed as a thought started creeping into my mind

“She was probably not inside when it happened.” she told herself desperately

“She wasn’t right!” she thought as despair set in

At this point the girl had entered her house through a hole in the roof, then she climbed down the destroyed stairs and squeezed past some debris while a fuzzy memory became brighter, and then as the memory of her magic losing control shaped itself in her head she found her, her mother laid on the ground with mouth slightly open and eyes lifelessly staring out into nothingness, she had been impaled by a supporting beam that had been launched out of the wall of our Livingroom. Her innards were hanging out and her legs were bent in an unnatural direction

When that image entered my mind, it combined with the memory from before and made me drop to my knees out of shock,

“I did this...”

“I did this didn’t I...” she said out loud

Then she thought of what might have happened to her friend which made her stomach turn, the combination of all this was too much and caused her to throw up

“It’s all my fault...!”