4. Finding a campsite and answers.

After taking out some small but heavy boxes, that the girl said had emergency rations in them, and a sack with all kinds of tools, he was able to lift the bag on the blanket.

As he started to pull it over the gladly slightly wet grass, he asked her.

You still haven't told me your name.

Or who or what you are.

Well, I actually have not a name yet.

And for what I am, let's say I'm just a hallucination, for now.

Fucking fuck what?

Alex stopped and looked at her.

I have gone batshit crazy!

No, but it's a good comparison until I told you the whole story.

That I'm a hallucination, not that you are crazy, I mean.

Come on, go on pulling, I tell you everything.

As I already told you, you had all this pure power in you, that was waiting to get used, formed and whatever, by the goddess that summoned you.

Then you landed directly at the Fountain of Life. There is the highest concentration of Lifemana and Lifeessenz anywhere. So, all this undefined power got fully embossed there.

You were, more or less, just a Lifemanabomb waiting for your death, to go boom!

Then Karneol pulled you out, took you here and did whatever it took so that you didn't die.

As you got a little sanity back, or better to say, when you stopped screaming for a short moment, he told you that there were two possibilities.

He could either just kill you, or you give him permission to get most of the power out of you, to give you a Class and accept a Geas.

If you did that, he promised to give you enough stuff and knowledge, and that he would look into your memory to make sure that you would be as happy as he could make you with the class and all the other stuff.

And if you ask me, knowing what I know of it, he did rather overcompensated.

Most likely because, after seeing your world in your memories, he wanted to hurry to have a look for himself.

Well, you took his offer, and the Geas, he did something, then he was gone and you were unconscious for about a half day.

By the way, do you even know what a geas is?

Yes! I read Tolkien and such.

Like a vow or covenant. But even more! Unbreakable!

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Yes!

It is quite easy.

You are not able to tell anybody that Karneol was involved with you at all.

He wanted me to tell you that he didn't want any more stress from this whole affair.

He called Junitia, the Goddess, that summoned you, a Karen, and said he liked his peace very much.

What is a Karen Alex?

A narcissistic, entitled bitch!

Ok, that fits!

But let's go on.

You can only name Halfelf or Nymph as your Race. As in your mother is a Dryad, your father is Elf. Because Darkelf, are an extinct race, and those who did that extinction are still around. Even if not in this world.

Whatever, we are many worlds away from Junitia, but if she ever hears from a Darkelf walking around somewhere, even she can do the math.

Hey, I totally forgot that I'm an Elf now.

He let go of the blanket and put his hands to his ears.

Wait! Why are my ears not pointed?

Why should they be pointed?

Well, Elves have always pointed ears in the stories.

No.

There are four things that Elves distinguish from humans.

First, longer arms and legs.

She wiggled them, and sure, they seemed longer, if you compared them to her torso.

Second, each of your lung wings has its own windpipe and voice box.

Third, Elves life between 250 and 400 years long. With all the Lifemana you were exposed to, you will be at least at the upper end of the spectrum.

And fourth and last, the eyes!

With that the sunglasses vanished, and Alex was once again bewildered.

The deep nearly shining green of her eyes alone was something else, but the eyes were simply huge. Not anime huge, the overall size was normal, the iris was much bigger than normal, so big that there was just a little white left at the sides of each eye.

Do you mean my eyes are like that too?

Hey, I have not really a body!

She gestured to her whole appearance.

This is how you look! I thought it would be better for our first meet.

Well, I wanted to do the burning dornbusch routine at first. But then I thought, you were already through enough.

Fuck me!

Sorry, not possible. No body, again.

No! I mean, that is really how I look?

Yes, but back to the Geas.

You are not able to tell that you come from outside, were summoned, or otherwise.

Again, because then you get the wrong attention and sooner or later some god or other powerful entity takes a real look at you, they might be able to go around the Geas, and that might cause stress for Karneol.

Lastly, you can not vow yourself or make a pact with any God, Spirit or Damon.

Because if you do, they at least will recognize the existenz oft he Geas, what brings us back to the wrong kind of attention.

There are Spirits and demons, too.

Yes, but that is a long story.

Don't you not want to know all the goodies, that you got out of the deal?

Sure!

Ok, then let's leave the bag here at the edge of the glade, and I will tell you while you carry the rest that we have left over there.

So, there is of course the Class, that you got. It's a fantastic one, but for now just hold your curiosity. I will tell you more about that later.

Then you have all this gear. It's all high quality, but it's not that noticeable, that you will be killed just because everybody wants your stuff. There is enough money in the backpack that you will have no need for quite some time, by the way.

There are some protections against the wrong kind of attention, but that is not important right now.

Ah! I'm supposed to tell you that Karneol liked that idea of a personal inventory, from those books you like to read so much that he gave you one.

Well kind of. As he couldn't take all the power out of you, he put some of it in your bones. And he put a lot of that in the bones of your hands.

Ok, long story short, he did some godly mumbo chumbo miracle, and now you can put things,…. Well somewhere. It's complicated; we will have to try it carefully.

But whatever, your bones are now a lot harder to break. And your hands and skull is even a lot harder. Like steel, perhaps.

Wait, why my head?

Not that I'm not happy about it!

Well, you see, Karneol did promise you a lot of knowledge. And he holds his promises.

Well, first he tried to simply put it in your brain, but that would have destroyed everything that makes you, well you. You would have become just some living file cabinet. No Alex anymore.

So, after some more godly mumbo jumbo miracle:

Ta-dah!

I was born. Your own wise and helpful, hallucinated companion.

At that, Alex could only put the last box down, and look at her.

He nearly didn´t registered her pointing behind him and saying:

Attention Bunny!