In the year 2075 of the Earth as we know it.
a group of eccentric jong people is riding in a rv bus to an unknown destination. The group of youngsters consists of boys and girls between the age of 20 and 25. They all have their own specialty, for instance one is very good with calculations, while another is good with materials.
halfway to their destination, while everyone’s a sleep and only the bus driver still awake and driving, suddenly one of the tires claps and everyone’s awake, the bus driver is able to barely able to get the bus to stop in time before it starts spinning, but he succeeds.
“Yeah, yeah, all is fine, you can go back to sleep, it is just a flat tire” says the bus driver. “I will fix it and get us back on track in no time”.
While the driver is fixing the tire all the youngsters go back in side to sleep, after the long busy day they have had,
Except for one, a red-heared girl who looks like she is around 23 years old, has a slender waist but curves at the right places, her hair is waving down till half way her back and she has those kind of piercing light green eyes that you don’t see very much. She keeps observing the driver, from inside the bus, until he is done and gets back into the bus.
A hour later. The bus is driving over a very long bridge over a canyon, on the tire that was just changed, one of the bolts that keeps it in place is showing signs of popping of, whoops, there it goes.
The tire keeps getting looser and looser. The wheel breaks of, the driver can’t hold the bus anymore, All of the youngsters are instant awake, but that’s all in vain, the bus swirls over the road to the left side, the side barrier takes a big hit and cracks through, the bus goes down of the bridge and every youngster is screaming in fright. The bus landed a few seconds after that on the rocky ground.
Later that night the news states that there are no survivors from the crash.
At the same moment that the bus hit the ground, somewhere far very far away in a distant world a number of tiny gaps appeared in the plane barrier.
2 hours later,
“Ayana, wake up! Ayana!”. Slowly the vision goes from black to a murky stone room, with dim torch light, that looks straight out of the middle ages. There is a simple wooden bed with a normal matrass which I am laying on.
On the right side there is a wall and on the left side there is a door, possible the entrance to this room, further left there is a wooden desk with some papers on it, an ink bottle on the left upper corner, a quill holder with a simple white quill in it. Above the desk hangs a shelf with what looks like book bindings on it, 4 of them.
On the end of the bed there is a chest, those that you would find in the early ages of civilization, its 60 centimeters high, 120 wide and 50 deep, it is made of simple wood, it has 2 doors on the front, if you open them you can slide the drawers out. On top the is a lid, if you open it there is another separate space for items. For what I can remember there has to be a secret compartment on the lower side of the chest went through her mind.
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While slightly looking in the direction of the chest I notice a mirror on the far wall, the mirror is around 2 meter high, and 75 centimeter wide, and it has a wooden frame.
“Good you’re finally awake, I finished the patrol round in the garden” the man that is standing next to the bed says, I look at him with murky eyes, because I obviously have no clue what he means.
“Okay, let’s try it this way, wat do you remember?” And I look at him again, trying to speak and realization hits me, how can I even understand him? If I speak, do the words come out the way that they are supposed to so he can understand?
“I... I... “ as I am trying to talk the memories of the old Ayana start appearing in my mind, me and the man named Garrick were doing a patrol round through the garden when we met with the murlock tribe, I was hit in the head bij one of them and went out.
“Yes I remember” did I answer. The memories kept coming back from the former host of the body I currently reside in.
This is one of the few and far in between large planes in the multiverse, named: The Deviant world
The plane mostly consists of humans, but when the population reached a certain number a small percentage of the humans began to show some abnormalities in body and soul, those people are called deviants. There are nine grades, each completely different from each other and more powerful than the other. But before you become a deviant, you’re first an apprentice. Beginner apprentices are not so different from normal humans, but starting to show some sensitivity to the elementium particles in the environment. Intermediate apprentices are one step further in their progress of becoming a deviant, same goes for advanced apprentices and pseudo deviants.
The room we are in belongs to the former host of this body named: Ayana. presumably she died at almost the same moment when I died in the previous place. Than I could live in this body because this was vacant.
The room is located on the second level of the deviant tower, the tower is owned bij a medium sized clan named Armrose and is located in the territory of the Deviant Alliance that is located in the west side of the plane.
Around the tower lays a garden, a so called resource site, there are a certain number of different creatures present in this garden. Every day there is a patrol around the garden, the ones on patrol check if there are any abnormalities and if you come across a resource you take it with you on your way. If it is something on the list of things to collect you have to hand it over to the tower management, if it is not, than you may take it for yourself.
The apprentices are also in charge of cleaning up the magic experiment equipment and keeping the inside of the tower clean.
In the tower there are 5 layers above ground and I am not sure if there are any more underground. The stationed deviant is called Wilson, a first grade deviant who specializes in water elementium, his chambers are on the fifth floors. On the fourth floor are the rooms reserved for visiting deviants from the clan and pseudo deviants from the tower, mostly these rooms are empty.
On the third floor are the advanced apprentices and intermediate ones, they make up a small portion of the inhabitants of the tower.
The beginner apprentices live on the second floor of the tower, they fill in the rest of the residents and last but not least are the meeting/dining room and all the other utility rooms of the tower, they are located on the first floor.
Then the memories suddenly stop flashing by, but I can feel they’re still there if I need them. I softly ask “would you mind?” To Garrick while hinting at the door. “Of course not, you need your rest” and with that he walks to the door while closing it after he’s outside.
I am still sitting up in the bed, pillow against the wall and my face is now staring at the mirror, against the far wall. I look at myself in the mirror and what I see amazes me. A red haired girl with an average face and those same light green piercing eyes that I used to have when I was still in my own body and I am wearing simple grey robes, standard issued for apprentices. Overall it looks like I was just plucked out from one place and brought here.
I fold the blanket, which is over my legs, to the end of the bed, i try to move my legs. It worked! Was the first thing that came to mind, strange actually, this body looks so much like my old body, yet I am afraid of not being able to do the simplest of things.
Next thing I try is putting my feet on the ground, so far so good. Then I try to get up but I feel a little different, I try looking down to my feet but I can’t see them, bugger, still too big to see my feet huh, well let’s try another comparison to find out why standing is weird.
I try walking to the door, by earth logic a door should still be around 2 meter. Walking also gives a strange feeling, when I reached the door I started comparing my own height against the door, 10 whole centimeters, seems to be the difference between my former body and this body.
Again I look at the mirror, I still have my white fair skin and those slender hands, but what is different are my boots, I used to have steal nose boots, but now I am only wearing some simple brown leather shoes, back on earth I used to work as a strategist behind a normal desk and people would give me looks about my outfit, here I’m not so sure what happens if I could get those kind of shoes and put them on.
My mind wanders off again, this is a world of advanced magic. The entire dimension is filled with a mystical material called Elementium. Based on the differences in these basic ‘elements’, these Elementium were classified into types, like Earth, Fire, Wind, Light, Darkness, etc.