Prologue

 Dark....

All I could feel is the darkness surrounding me. 

It feels warm, like wrapped in a blanket, keeping me safe and content. 

It's an unusual feeling. Not being able to open your eyes or know where you are but there's no sense of being lost, being alone, only a strange comfort that you're gonna be okay.

It feels weird not knowing who you are, but you recall distant memories, memories that are important to you, the one that you should never forget, but its out reach, you can almost touch the tip of that forgotten memory but then it vanishes.

I don't know anymore. Seems like my sense of time is warp, like I can't tell how long I've been here. Has it been hours, days, weeks or month or even years.

I keep waiting. 

Waiting for that sense of panic, that strangling paranoia, the constricting of the heart.

But what I was expecting never happened.

Suddenly, I feel exhausted and the need of sleep overcome me.

*****

I'm still in the same situation, but I could feel myself getting bigger, stronger. taking shape into something significant.

I can feel my limb twisting and turning, growing into an arm, a leg, a body.

I guess I have grown a pair of ears, because I can hear sound, strange noises outside whatever place I'm in.

I guess I could somehow guess, I'm maybe a fetus growing inside of a woman or in a mad scientist laboratory, like one of those test-tube babies.

I shuddered at the thought.

Hmm.. maybe this is how you are born into the world, with a strong sense of awareness and maybe slightly advance intelligence?

And then you forget everything after you come out of the womb, and then you become more dumber, more primitive?

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*Sigh* I'm not even making sense anymore.

Here we go, the feeling of tiredness hit me again. I don't know how many times I've slept since I've been here but its been more than I could count.

****

I'm definitely bigger and more developed than before.

I'm a complete baby, with my head, eyes, nose blablabla.. you get the idea.

I still can't open my eyes, I guess because I'm still inside my mother to be's stomach.

But today, something seems different. I can feel something moving around me, enveloping me.

It's a feeling that's hard to describe. Its magical and weird at the same time, I can feel it nourishing me, making my development even more faster.

In fact, my body yearns for it and calls for it, it's a strange feeling.

Somehow I'm getting a sense of colour, like a blue tint particle.

Slow moving, it drifts and wafts like a falling leaf, it rises and falls like feather riding across a gentle breeze.

The a word slowly came to my mind.

'Mana'

A type of miraculous energy that enables the use of magic.

'Magic!'

No way, I said to myself. This can''t be.

I'm going to be born in a world where magic exist, where in the world am I?

Excitement, fear and happiness were the emotion I felt all at once.

**** 

I can feel that my time in my tiny world of darkness will soon be ending.

During the time that I have discovered mana, I have initiated some sort of experiment with it.

I feel like I could interact with this miraculous energy. I willed it towards me, influencing its path, I watch it being flowing in my body and flowing back out again.

I wondered how magicians use mana to perform their magic. Mana just seems to flow pass me, like an etherial ghost.

I wonder if they use some kind of container, or maybe they entrapped mana in one of those stones you see in mage staff.

Curious..

Maybe if I could somehow entrapped the mana inside my body, I could use a form of magic that way.

Sensing my self and the mana surrounding me, I notice the blood flowing around my body. 

I don't why but I can somehow project an image into my head, through my senses.

It's hard to explain, but I think its similar to a spiritual sense.

I focused hard on the red liquid, and then my heart which pumps blood and oxygen into my fragile body.

Suddenly I had an idea. 

What if I use my heart as a container for the mana, somehow will the mana particle to fuse with my heart.

I am excited and ecstatic.

Calming myself down as best I could.

I used my spiritual sense to will a single digit mana particle the size of a grain of rice, towards my beating heart.

Slowly the mana drifted towards my heart.

Finally sensing that the mana is inside my heart, I will for them to fuse.

The mana disappeared, integrating into my heart. 

Then everything stopped!

My head, my body, my bones, neural nerves.

My vision went blurry as tears filled my undeveloped eyes. Biting the pain was barely an option as agonizing cramps seemed to crush my insides from within. I was sure it'd all be over soon enough. Pain would never last that long, right? The realization that I was wrong cause a moment of panic. I tried as best I could to block out the pain, to find some form of meditative trance in order to cope with the agonizing sensations.

I wanted to die. It feels like I am being burned alive by a searing unforgiving pain.

'WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING??!!'

'THIS WASNT THE BEST IDEA EVER!!'

'FUCK!!'