There was a lot to talk about— too much actually— but they would slowly get through it all, for now she was happy to sit in silence as they basked in each other's presence. With a deep yawn, Jane lay down on the tilted rooftop staring at the purple and orange sky above.

Eric joined her and lay down beside her. “Don't fall asleep on me so soon, If I know anything about you it's your ability to sleep whenever and wherever you want.”

“Sorry sorry I can't help it, it's been a long day— and an even longer week.” Jane sprawled her arms above her and took a deep breath out.

“Must be, I can't even imagine finding out you had a sister so suddenly either.” Eric said.

“Me neither. It was a huge surprise at first but now it feels… normal. Abigail seems to like me already so that's a win in my book.”

“That's good. Having siblings is great— for the most part. Six siblings can be a lot at times but the good times always outway the negatives.”

“That's right you got another sibling! I don't even know anything about them.” Jane perked up and she turned her body to face Eric.

“Well it's a girl like Abigail, and they're actually the same age so they’ll be in the same year at school together, which is great. Her name is Emily and she might just be the damn cutest thing in this world.”

“Now I gotta meet her, maybe catch up with your parents at the same time as well.” Jane said and the two once again stared at each other and then giggled.

“What are we laughing at?” Jane asked with a big grin.

“No clue!” Eric replied and rolled back onto his back.

“... It's great that you're back.” He said in a serious tone and Jane could only nod.

After another minute of silence, Jane suddenly stood up and stretched her arms high into the sky, then she reached down and pulled Eric up as well.

“What's up? Done so soon?” Eric questioned her.

“Hm, not even close.” Jane cracked her knuckles and smirked. “It's time to show you the cool stuff since you still haven't asked about it yet.”

“Well I didn’t wanna… you know… seem like that kinda person.” Eric explained and only got a light slap to the back of the head. “What was that for?”

“My parents acted the same way, you're my best friend, I know what type of person you are— I know, you want to ask all about it.” Jane said then gave him a small hug. “It's understandable though, so that's why I brought it up so you didn't have to.”

“So forgive me for the head slap handsome” She waited to see how he would respond and saw his face warp into a wide devilish grin.

“You're forgiven— that doesn't matter now— I want to know everything about your class!” His nerdy personality resurfaced as soon as the topic of classholders was brought up. Since a young age he has been obsessed with reading stories about classholders and their powers and histories, he would even go on to make his own personal journal where he put all his notes about the topic.

He spent years studying books about classes to find out all there is about them, not for a second did Jane think this trait of his had disappeared. She was surprised he hadn't broken character and asked her all about her class when they first met at the Little Goose. But now seeing his childish grin and the way his eyes shimmered wanting to know more, she knew the old nerdy bookworm Eric was still in there.

“So what class did you get? A beast or plant master might suit you— or maybe even brawler— or an elementalist!” Eric stammered out in excitement, wanting to know the answer.

Jane’s response was to laugh, lean back, and then fall off the roof.

“Jane?!” Eric shouted and shimmied to the edge of the roof to see what had happened to Jane but to his surprise she saw her float up while laying on a giant golden hand. The hand was easily large enough to fit herself and a few others in its palm alone.

“Haha, did I surprise you?” Jane smirked and stood up, still on the semi translucent hand. She reached her arm out and guided the shocked Eric beside her.

“What is this? I don't understand.” Eric looked through his memories of all the classes but couldn't fit where her power fell yet.

“You still don't know? I’m an—”

“-Enigma!” Eric finished her sentence and looked at her in amazement. “So you can create a giant floating hand that I assume you can control?”

“Actually I can create two hands that I can control but they also function separately from myself… it's hard to describe, I'll show you another time. I can also change their size from a normal hand up to— well I actually haven't tested recently how large I can make them.” Jane pondered, she would have to test that out later.

“Wow, that's amazing!” Eric said and looked at the grassy land below as Jane slowly moved the hands further away from the roof.

“That's not all, my actual hands are much more special.” Jane raised her hands up, still wearing the golden bracelets. “My hands are not only indestructible, meaning nothing can damage them, but nothing can even move them if I don’t allow it. I've tried it all; fireballs, swords, explosives, charging beasts— nothing can do anything to my hands.”

“What!!! That's so powerful!” Eric bellowed in excitement while his mind reeled thinking of ways her powers could be used.

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“Yep I know.” Jane put her hands on her hips and took a look at the sunset in the distance. “I can also do a few other small things, but they aren't as cool.”

“More!? Not only can you create floating hands— who knows how big— you have indestructible hands and more!?” Eric grabbed his head and stared at her in curiosity.

“I'm pretty cool right?” She teasingly touched her nose. “That's just how us Enigma’s work though. We get a set of strange abilities and make do with them, hoping they are of some use. Here's an ability that's pretty useless in most scenarios, except it might help right now.”

She put her hand on his chest and used another one of her abilities, sending a pulse of warmth into Eric who felt the chill of the early night disappear in an instant. His tense body loosened and his excited face relaxed, he felt like he had just gotten out of a warm bath after a long day's work.

“Amazing.” He calmed down and refocused his mind that had gone haywire a minute ago. His best friend had come home a classholder, and a powerful one at that. She was a person he could only dream of meeting when he was child, but now she was right here, standing in front of him.

“I couldn't be a luckier man. My best friend is a classholder, my girlfriend is the town idol and my family is amazing of course. What God did this, cause I want to thank them personally.” Eric sat down cross legged on the hand and took a breath of fresh air.

“You got a cheeky mouth, Is that how you picked up Danielle?” Jane sat beside him, her arms leaning back behind her while her knees were raised in front of her.

“I think it must have been my looks.” Eric said with a smirk getting a giggle out of Jane.

Suddenly Jane grinned, it was time to show off her brand new form of transportation only those at the academy had seen. It wasn't as good as a porter’s abilities of course, but it was better than anything else.

“You ready? Hold on to something!” Jane said.

“Ready for what— Ahh!” Eric covered his mouth from screaming and reflexively grabbed ahold of Jane as he felt his body rise at a fast rate. He shakily peered over the edge of the hand and saw the ground beneath him getting further and further away.

“We're gonna go on a little ride! I'll drop you off at your house so you don't have to walk back!” Jane maniacally laughed and sped the hand up.

It rose hundreds of meters in the blink of an eye before Jane stopped at a height not too high up since the air would be a lot colder and much harder to breathe in. That's when things got wild as she made the hand fly across the sky instead, zooming past the landscape at an astonishing speed. Buildings, trees and beautiful landscapes illuminated by the evening light whizzed by them as they sped across the sky.

Eric couldn't say anything. Part of it was fear, he had never been this high up or ever thought he would fly in his life, but a good chunk of it was a childlike joy. After a minute of flying through the night sky of Redwood he got more comfortable and let go of Jane then raised his hands in the air.

“Woohoo!” he laughed as he looked around him at the night market of the town square. People were still out and about as night had only just begun, less than during the day, but still enough that he could see their faint figures beneath him move around. Looking down at all the buildings with their lights on was like looking at a world class painting, it was simply mesmerizing.

Jane couldn't help but feel happy seeing her best friend so excited. She watched him with glee as she looped around town allowing him to see the entire town from above. The warmth aura she had sent him had faded but Eric didn't even notice the cold nipping at his ears until they were bright red.

She sent him another pulse of warmth as she headed back towards Eric’s house which was only a couple of minutes away from her house. The Frier’s place was slightly larger than her house and their property was also larger— but that was because they had the largest property in Redwood.

They were farmers and farmed pretty much everything you could grow in Redwood, and to farm you needed lots of space. This was the reason their property was the largest, because most of their land was just farmland.

Their house itself was a little different than most, at first it wasn't anything bigger than a normal house but as they had more children, the parents, Dean and Amelia Frier decided they needed more space. They built extensions off the original house with a little help from neighbors but most of the heavy lifting was done by Dean and Amelia themselves, turning it into what it was today. It looked a little funky as the extended rooms looked like cubes jutting out of the house, but it did its job and gave their family of nine a comfortable living space.

Even Jane could see that another section had been built into it while she was away at the academy, most likely meant for their newest child Emily. Tonight she would pass on catching up to them, it was already late and she was tired, but she would swing by tomorrow or the next day to say her greetings.

But she had one last thing she wanted to do today, it was one of her and all her friends' favorite activities. Hopefully Eric didn't get mad at her.

“Do you trust me?” Jane hovered a few hundred meters over Eric’s place.

“Ya— wait wait, don't tell you're gonna do something crazy!” He saw her face warp into an evil grin and she laughed.

“You should know me by now!” The hand underneath them disappeared and they began to free fall towards the ground.

“Ahhh!” There was no stopping this scream that came out of Eric.

“Haha look at me!” Jane yelled while doing somersaults in the air— no response came from Eric. She might have taken it too far this time, considering this was their first day they had met since four years ago.

Once they were a relatively close distance to the ground, the hand reappeared and gently caught them while descending onto the grass below. With a puff, the hand disappeared leaving Jane and Eric standing on the grass of his front yard— or at least one of them was standing.

Eric lay on the grass, his chest moving up and down as he took deep breaths in recovering from the surge of adrenaline that plagued his body seconds ago.

“At least warn me!” He yelled and stood up, pointing an angry hand at her.

“Sorry, I couldn't help myself.” Jane looked a little guilty but then ruined it by saying, “But it was fun no?”

Eric stared at her with a deadpan look before saying, “Sigh… maybe a little.” Then a faint smile tugged his lips.

“Ah, you're smiling! You liked it!” The hand appeared underneath Jane once again and she started to float up.

“Where do you think you’re going, I haven't yelled at you enough!” Eric shouted at her.

“Huh? I can't hear you from all the way up here!” She laughed and waved. “Have a goodnight, Ill take you sky diving again once your up for it.”

“I don’t think I'll ever be up for it— goodnight!” He shouted back at Jane who had begun to speed up and eventually she became a blur in the night.

“Redwoods wild child is back so soon… looks like things are gonna start to become more interesting again.” He stared at the direction Jane left in for a minute before heading inside.

The adrenaline and fear had disappeared and only joy was left— joy his best friend was back, slightly different than before, but still the same reckless and wild Jane he grew to care for. He couldn't wait to hear more stories about her time at the academy, especially all the ones about her friends and girlfriend. But they were neither in a rush to catch up too soon— might as well take their time and slowly go about it, giving them more chances to hang out with each other.

“Hey Ma, Pa! Jane's back in town!” He shouted as he entered his house.