Ring Of Fire

Has My Life Even Begun?

Song to match this chapter:
~Serendipity by BTS.~

||Jimin POV.||

I woke up in my safe little haven of pink softness. Swollen eyes and swollen lips as the sun, which I have grown so familiar, peaked through my queer little gingham curtains.

Another day confined within this cyclical state of comfort and nothing more.

Before I sleep, I visualise fake scenarios where I feel intense emotion and my daily life is full of the unexpected.

But here I am.

Don't get me wrong, I am lucky. I know I am lucky to have this as my worry, as my hope.

I have a pretty roof over my head provided by my loving parents, who pay for my university education.

So I shouldn't want anymore.

I don't want to want anymore.

I don't want to feel this need, this longing for something.... or rather someone that brings danger and mystery into my predictable life.

I sighed after letting my rambling mind get the best of me this early in the morning. I rolled over, groaning and slipped my feet into the fluffy warmth of my bunny slippers and braced my muscles into a standing position to take on another slow day at university.

You must be thinking how ordinary this all sounds. Well... ordinary is just a state that is relative to the individual and the reality with which they accept.

Okay, okay, enough of my bullshit philosophical ramblings, as my best friend Tae calls them.

So.... what I am trying to say is that the reality I live in is.... somewhat complex. We have all your ordinary stuff like power-hungry people fuelling corrupt corporations and, ya know, a few good, kind people here and there that seem to get life's short end of the stick.

However, this 'power' is decided, quite unfairly, I may add, by magic and magic alone.

I would say about hmm.... 65% of humans are born naturally with elemental powers. These natural borns watch their power grow with age.

The remaining 35% have a fighting chance at cultivating elemental powers if they focus hard enough, and I mean hard. Some people never even get close in their entire lives.

Anyway, this may all sound terribly exciting to you, depending on what your reality is like. But to me, this is tiring.

My parents and my younger sister Mirae are natural borns.

My Appa has your standard earth powers that he cultivated from an impressively young age, as I have heard a painful amount of times.

Eomma is a natural water-born; she raised me to choose peace, always.

Mirae.... ugh, do I really have to talk about her. Mirae is what we call a Centinal, a Centinal of air to be exact.

Centinals are the species of elementals that have accessed an ethereal level of power.

There is quite a few of them, actually. They waltz around the earth, getting a free seat at any restaurant they want and first in line for every que.

Once they are out and confirmed as Centinals, they get millions of follows on all social media's; the public becomes obsessed with their lives as Centinals.

In my opinion, it's more of a curse than a blessing to belong to this exclusive club of being.

Oh yes, then there is me.

A natural-born.... apparently. My parents say that, although I have never felt even a shred of magic in my system.

Mirae could fly to the tallest tree in our garden by age 3 and call the wind to bring our tennis ball back at age 4. I could just about hold a pencil at 7.

Anyway... I will get into more detail later, okay? I have to get back to describing my boring average day at university in a world where seeing someone part the sea to get their volleyball back is normal.

|| So much more detail for me to get into, and I promise we will see how the eclipse festival and ya know - Yoongi!!!! plays a part in all this.||