The next few weeks had gone by slowly. The children were told by both Dukes to stay inside for a bit. They still did their daily chores before anyone would come to check where they were. Exploring the dungeon was out of the question though. Apparently, a written threat was given to Duke Jade that his daughter would be killed. He forwarded the threat to the king, as he was no longer the charge of A Jade.

“Auna, who is that?” Chloe pointed out a boy sleeping in Aunas’ bed. They had just returned from dinner. They all panicked a bit before the smaller child opened their eyes. They were white, and unseeing. They quickly entered the room shutting the door.

“Who are you?” Auna was still on guard of course.

“Jaihhyia is the name! I came bearing a message from the gods of your last world.” The boy simply got off of the bed, walked over and handed a letter to the girl. Could he see?

“That is not a normal name.” Ciela said tilting her head. The boy before her was weird. His hair was an unearthly blue, even more so than magic infused hair. His wings were similar but different, they were also one segment each. However, they were obviously a different ‘material’ than any fairy born she had met. The shape was sharper, sturdy, and almost see through at the same time. It invoked a sensation that no one seemed to be able to put to words.

“Ah sorry about that.” Sheepishly the boy put on a mantle fastening it to his shirt into imbedded fasteners. His outfit was completely white, and very baggy. The only colour was his metal fasteners on his mantle and shirt. There seemed to be a few pieces of jewellery hidden under the long sleeves as well as a hidden rope necklace. His wings now hidden the sensation ebbed away.

“Why would I believe you?” Auna deadpanned.

“Don’t insult me. I don’t lie.” The boy looked angry. “Anyway. Also, I want to tell you not to awaken as a god. Trust me as a child who has done just that. It is not fun, bad people will make you a soldier. That is all I am going to say. There are rules about information after all.” Shrugging the boy stood there.

“If that is all, why are you still here?” Meredith was ever so impatient.

“I figured she would have at least one question. Besides I am not in a rush to head to my next assignment. I am just passing through this world after all.” Again, he shrugged, it was a bit eery to watch him move his head towards you to speak. He couldn’t see so his eyes never properly met yours.

“Please stop fake looking at me when you talk.” Meredith said, to which the boy immediately looked away. Resting his head forwards.

“Mama said it is rude not to look at someone while you talk.” The boy shrugged again, a nervous tick probably.

“Well, you can’t see, surely there is an exception for you.” Meredith sighed sitting on her bed, more comfortable now that the unseeing boy wasn’t following them with his white eyes.

“Hmm, I’ll tell my mama that next time.” A wry smile lit up his face.

“Anyway, how can I avoid becoming a god then?” Auna asked.

“Simple. Don’t.” Jaihhyia and Auna stared at each other after he seriously said that. They both must be cut from the same cloth to be so dense.

“I don’t understand.” Auna tried.

“You will. I promise. When you are ready to truly awaken you will feel it. A burning, cold feeling. You will want to surrender to it, bathe in it. Don’t. Instead fight it, will it back into your soul. My twin sister and I didn’t know what was going on when it happened. I went first, I surrendered to it. Then they came.” The boy paused deep in thought.

“She fought it. She never awakened as a true god, not yet at least. She can still feel it at the edge of her mind. Like a madness that wants to consume her. However, she ignores it, fights it when needed. Until she is an adult and the bad people can’t hurt her too.” The boy nods as he finishes.

“Why doesn’t your mother protect you?” Chloe asked with horror on her face. She comes from such a loving home after all.

“Mama did, for many years. She adopted me you see. Then I awakened. The bad people sent gods to kill me because mom wouldn’t hand me over. Gods must be raised by Gods if they awaken as a child.” He spoke the line with anger.

“Anyway. Mama is not a god; however, she has earned the title god slayer for killing all the gods that have tried to kill me. She amassed many wounds though, some that still hinder her. To protect her I made a deal. The bad people can use me, but I live with mama when not on assignment. Also, my family isn’t touched.” He smiled with sadness as his voice hitched.

“I can awaken once I am an adult? What do you classify as an adult?” Auna asked.

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“That is actually easy! The rules state that if the person is of majority age, or legally classified as an adult they should be left alone. It is rare they break this. But to be double sure wait until you reach the oldest age.”

“So, the highest not average of what the worlds countries agree is an adult. If there were three countries one with an age of majority of 18, the other 16, and the last 15. I should wait until 18, not 16?” Auna nodded along as she thought.

“Yes. Anyway. Good bye.” The boy seemed to be glowing a blue, similar to his hair colour.

“Will we ever see you again?” Ciela asked as he faded.

“Maybe? I hope so. Y’all seem chill!” Then he was gone, as if he never existed. The only reminder being the letter in hand.

“That, was odd. I thought I had gotten used to odd things around you.” Meredith shook her head heading towards the washroom.

“I’m going to update the boys.” Auna also sighed putting her letter in storage.

“I am so sick of staying on school grounds.” Jensen groaned as he continued to play with his cats’ cradle moving the string in odd positions. The last evening had been forgotten. It was no use to fret over something they could not explain. The letter had been a simple message of regret the curse was not fixed, and missing her.

“I know, I am as well.” Auna also sighed playing with her own cats’ cradle, she was not nearly as good as Jensen though.

“Yeah, sorry we are asking for help. We thought having you two teach us would give us the advance educational skills. Guess we need more practice?” Chloe turned to Meredith who was shrugging.

“What do you mean educational skills?” Auna asked nonchalantly.

“What do you mean what do you mean? You should have so many you are so smart!” Chloe said in too loud of a tone bringing over the floor teachers. They had been keeping a closer eye on them.

“I don’t understand what an educational skill is. Jensen?” Auna looked to her friend for comfort surely, he would explain.

“Sorry my moon. I don’t know what they are talking about. Are you guys trying to prank us?” Jensen continued to play with his string shrugging it off. The triplets often tried to prank and fool him.

“Are you two saying you both don’t have any educational skills? How is that possible?” Mr. Merlin asked slowly.

“No?” Auna said looking at Jensen who was shaking his head. Finally, he put his string down beside Aunas’ long forgotten string.

“Hm, you must have not practiced enough. To get a basic educational skill you need to be taught by someone with it. Then you must practice it properly. You two are both brilliant, it is possible you practiced so little that you never got the skills?” Mr. Merlin almost sounded like he was asking instead of telling.

“I think you are right, here take this book.” Mrs. Hopper put down a book called ‘Educational skills and you’.

Jensen moved closer to Auna and opened the book. At a speed that was ridiculous they began to read the book. After about thirty minutes they were both staring at the book, having finished it.

Basically, the book outlined that a person would need to be taught basics of a subject alongside extensive practice, to gain an educational skill for that subject. As long as one existed. Then to gain more advance skills in education it was more abstract. Some people claimed to get them without ever being properly taught, while others claimed to never practice. They would then be in the educational skills section of the status screen.

Thus, the book concluded that the advanced, mastery, and specialty levels of educational skills are dependent on understanding. Once a person properly understands enough of the subject they are trying to learn, they can gain the skill.

A speciality in basic maths would be a skill called mathematician, or something with that title. One could be a teacher of math without a specialty skill. Though they could only teach younger children with a basic skill. As such in every subject that had educational skills revealing the skill or skills was required to get the job. Religion did not have an educational skill.

Some people could get odd educational skills that were still unknown such as Astronomy pioneers. When the system acknowledges a new field of study the skill would be labelled pioneer. Then people could learn the basic skill from them. The person who first created or discovered the skill would then be able to learn the basic skill and so forth. They would keep the pioneer skill. Currently, Astronomy or the study of space was still at a basic understanding no one had been able to move it further. Perhaps no one wished to from other worlds.

The book went on to say that sometimes knowledge or people with it are lost, so the next person to rediscover a field of study was labelled an explorer. They too could then allow people to get the basic in the skill again. This would only happen if the amount of people with the basic skill was less than ten percent of the total population (an estimate).

“Why did no one mention this?” Auna asked as she kept looking over the summary of the book in her world voice skill. Jensen was sitting with his eyes closed breathing deeply.

“The book also said studying can give experience points. Why would no one mention it to two people who need more points per level?” Jensen still has his eyes closed.

“I assumed you knew.” Ciela spoke up looking at Auna with guilty eyes. “I am sorry, I should have thought better. You didn’t even know what a cow was.” She muttered.

“No sweet girl, I should have paid more attention.” Auna pulled the girl into her lap.

“Most students who go here already have basic educational skills due to their lineage. The scholarship students are put through an intensive ‘catching up’ class for the first year to catch them up. Because you both are from great bloodlines, we assumed you knew.” Mr. Merlin was rambling as always.

“I am an orphan of the king you know.” Auna rolled her eyes, always upset over being mentioned as a Jade.

“Of course. Jensen?” Mr. Merlin asked.

“I, might have skipped too many lessons.” Jensen kept his eyes closed, a grimace now on his face.

“Yeah, we were taught this, and even had a competition to see who would get their basic math, science, history, geography, and social studies. We never included you as we assumed you had them. Even the teachers assumed it when you finished work so easily. Why do you think you never got lectured for skipping class while we did?” A triplet answers while the other two snicker.

“I see.” Jensen opened his eyes a huge smile on his face. “Shall we go practice the basics my moon?” His wry smile full of excitement at being able to ease his boredom.