POV Darth

I was very weak. My backlash was stronger than Flash’s. When Flash could already help with cultivation chamber lightning energy loading I was sitting om porch and resting. Day after big discussion started quite ordinary, with small talk with Temporary Elders. Then we all went caring for our things. You know, everybody thinks about himself, only I am thinking about me. Well, that was not true. Lightning guys were one team and Nameless was helping them with cultivation chamber. Plasma users were another team and operated with Coal by forge. Dancer, Yola and Mouse were working together. Only I was by myself.

Some people came and talked with me from time to time. Then they went back to their businesses. After I got minor completion of lightning ability, I got worse backlash than Flash. It felt as lightning energy was crawling through me. There were two kinds of that energy that circled one another. It was unending dance till energy was spent. My body couldn’t contain those dancing energies without harm. They were spasming my muscles. After completion I felt as hit by truck. I had no strength to move my muscles. Even talking was hard.

That day sitting on porch I felt better, but still weak. All I could do, was feeling myself. Those dancing energies were resurfacing inside of me. It was different than during completion process. Then, my torso was area where they lived and clashed. That day energies surfaced weaker and fractured in different parts of my body. In hands, legs, part of torso. They lived and moved mainly in spiral motion then died out. I didn’t spasm. Perhaps my flesh became immune to some extent.

I was tired first. Then after few hours, I was bored. I needed to rest, but resting without doing anything when you feel, you could do some, was similar to light torture. So I found some nails, little metal plates, cheap spangles, some little junks of metal and started using my inner energy on them. It was nice distraction for my mind. Time flew smoother.

In the afternoon Nameless and Coal left us. They were tied to Devas and bio-stones. Mouse also had those times, when she disappeared for some hours, but at different times than they. It wasn’t all shine and bright day for Nameless, but he endured cold shoulders.

There was something special during our meals. We ate together. We talked and joked during them. Somehow eating together made us more attuned to ourselves.

After lunch I got back on porch. I tried to imbue small metal plates with those two different kinds of energy I felt inside. I did. That didn’t seem to do anything until I put imbued plate with one energy over plate imbued with another. One was levitating over another. It wasn’t as with magnets, when you could flip it and they attracted each other. It just levitated centimeter over no matter how you flipped it. Nobody saw, what I did, what I achieved. I put some weight over levitating plate. It went down. More weight and it went lower. Then, when plates touched, there was sizzling sound and plates melted together. Wow. It stunned me. I tried different things. When I put paper or wood between levitating plate and plate on table, that didn’t disturbed levitation. When I put something made from metal it broke levitation, but plates didn’t melt with metal between them. I also tried putting charged plates on ground, soil, but they discharged fairly fast then. Water didn’t disturb levitation, but oil did. I closed my eyes and tried to feel those two different energies around me. I felt that ground was charged slightly, so slightly that I could be mistaken, with one energy and sky in direction of sun slightly with another. Things around seemed to be neutral or with little difference on sunny side. Electric devices felt strange as they had knots of closely tied hairs of those kinds, but overall balanced.

I had many hours to think. I needed to talk with Flash. I convinced myself, that he would expose those energies after some time, if left for his own devices. I didn’t want for Temporary Elders to learn about my discovery. I thought, that they didn’t know. They had lot more powerful magic abilities than we, but seemed little sophisticated in them. Attacking others with magic abilities was their only use of those magic.

After dinner I asked Flash for talk. We sat down at hill and looked at sunset. I felt better than in the morning.

-= How was you day? – I asked.

-= All right. I think, that in afternoon I was totally back in good shape. You should be tomorrow too.

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-= Do you think, we should cooperate with Temporary Elders openly or have some secrets to ourselves?

-= Ha, if we want in future be counterbalance to them, we should have some secret weapon, but we are too weak for now to have one. – He said clearly trying to guess, where I was leading with those questions.

I looked at sunset.

-= There are already differences in magic or how we see magic, between us and them. Yola is first example. – I stated.

-= What do you want to say?

-= How do you perceive your lightning energy?

He knew that I got something.

-= During my completion lightning became waves of lightning energy, that went through me and bounced back.

-= It was little different for me and that difference seem to have consequences in ability. – I wasn’t convinced anymore, that I should tell him all.

-= You have variant ability, haven’t you?

-= Me? You have variant. Maybe mine is main. – I smiled. Then I continued more seriously. – Devas seem to all have the same magic ability of one kind. I don’t have proof, but their words suggested that.

-= You want for us to hide that fact. Isn’t that your point?

-= Yes. If it will be possible. If not, we shouldn’t show details, just state that they are little different.

-= Ok. I agree. – He thought for a moment. - Can I ask you something different?

-= Yes.

-= You know, yesterday you accused me of being dog of Devas more or less and today you tell me your secret. What did change?

-= I wasn’t so serious yesterday. I wanted to put distance between CHoMiA and Devas. I don’t think, you would betray us for them, but sometimes you seem to hear to them too much. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but you understand me, that I don’t want anything bad to happen.

-= Yeah, you exaggerate sometimes.

-= So, you are only one after completion beside me. We will help others, when they accomplish minor completion. I thought, it would be good if we add them to our secret circle.

-= I don’t understand. – He said.

I took out two metal plates and charged them. One was levitating over another. He looked at it. It wasn’t much to look at or great thing, but principle was there.

-= That’s new. – He said.

-= Yes. I think Devas can’t do that.

-= So, what is use of that effect? – He asked.

-= In future? Maybe elevator. – I was serious.

-= Or flying sword. – He said with shiny eyes.

-= So, secret established. Agreed?

-= I agree.

I got my point done. I was able to cut off Devas from some knowledge. Flash was dreaming about flying swords, but I knew that elevators were more important. Trains were more important than rackets with explosives inside. Most important was knowledge and ability to make knowledge reality.

POV Dancer

Me and Yola didn’t have good place to train abilities. Mouse spent some time with us. I was dancing with the wind. Yola tried to focus on my magic and point me, where my magic ability was dissipating and wind blow free away. Mouse was doing her wind sphere near me. She let me steal some of her wind. Day was growing older and we talked more and more openly.

At some point Yola asked Mouse, how she used her psychic ability. She said, that for example, she helped herself with that ability to convince people to gather if they weren’t convinced. Those were founders of CHoMiA she was talking about. Me included. She asked us for discretion. She didn’t think she did something wrong, as we all seemed to be glad to join, but she said, that it would rub them wrong way. I promised to stay silent for some time at least. Then she and Yola talked about differences in sensory radar and magic sight a lot.

I talked lot less. I needed my focus on wind sphere. I also trained in friction control, but only as much as not to lose that ability. My main focus was wind sphere. Wind was about control and inertia. Secret was, that there was different kinds of wind that made sphere or semi sphere. Those winds could stick to one another in three dimensional space. Once outlines of moving air were created it sucked more air into movement. Some air dissipated from sphere. Use of magic ability was needed to balance loses. Sticking and stocking air currents one on another and making them move in cycle was main point. More one could build and control, stronger ability became. It was constant drain on my will, attention and magic. I needed to rest, work and rest again. Feeling of invisible dome around me made me feel safe and calm. Funny, how opposing winds made structure tighter and more stable.

Mouse lit incenses around me. That way I could see slim threads of smoke riding on my wind. Dome become more visible. That also showed, that air, even without my magic ability, was in constant gentle movement. I was blind to that fact earlier.

In those moments I sat down and rested, all looked as some nice vacations period. Sun was shiny. Nature green. Things had no pressure. I wished it could be that way for longer. I said that aloud. Mouse agreed, that she felt here lot better than in War-Saw. No rat race as she said. Yola said, that here she felt as time was going too slow. She trained and all, but it seemed, that she was lacking here some stimulation, she had in big city. Always something or something to do, never stopped, as she pointed. Maybe she just wanted some distraction for hurt heart.

Day ended and seemingly nothing changed. Coal came back in late evening. Nameless was absent. There were talks about some tour around area as some people wanted little change in daily routine. Some wanted to train hard. I wanted to travel around. We would make two groups.