The White Chronicle

Chapter 31 - Darkness that surrounds her

Lost and confused, Jasmine stands alone atop a deserted wasteland. She has no recollection of how she arrived there. She screams for help, but not a guardian or a soul hears her cry for help. Instead, a creeping shadow takes over the land and slowly consumes everything. Yet, she courageously stands as she knows that the guardian will be there to save her. They always do.

Jasmine grabs her knife and tries her hardest to cast simple light magic. Her bottle by the waist glows with bright magic to fend of the darkness at bay. The shadow reacts violently to her light and backs off before it reaches her. And in the corner of her eye, a glimmering silver shines. Daggers emerge from the shadow and fly towards her, dancing to dodge Jasmine's knife. She tried to keep up, but she was quickly overwhelmed. She looked below and found her stomach bleeding.

Jasmine panics, and in her horror, she wakes herself from her nightmare.

"That's the fourth time this past week since we landed at Tymar and the same nightmare still gets me." Jasmine thinks to herself as she slowly gets up from bed. As she left, she found her pillow full of her dandruff. Ashamed, she shakes her pillow off and tries to play it cool before the others see it. Jasmine would like to keep herself clean despite being stuck in another world. She thinks maybe she isn't washing enough of her hair when taking a bath.

Breakfast! The favourite time of Tymarians and coincidentally the Antrians too. They laugh and make cheerful music as they eat in the vast hall. Jasmine took a seat and began eating the most delicious ham and tasty cheese she had ever eaten. She thinks to herself that this might be even better than her grandma's. She looked up the hall and saw Amihan and Tala fighting over a single loaf of bread, the last one with walnut and olive.

The spectators cheered as they flew and passed the bread between the beams. And soon enough, the bread manages to slip away from their hands and drops in the plate of Kislap. He grins in a devilish smile and declares the bread will soon find its way into its new owner's stomach. The two guardians gave chase and demanded that one of them provide the bread instead. And with his speed, he runs off out of the hall.

A man and a woman sharing the same body and with two pairs of limbs run across the room, passing on more and more food for their esteemed guest, the Chroniclers, the guardians and Amihan's men. It was unusually for Jasmine to see such a creature; she even found it stranger than the ones she had met before. Fascinated by this curious sight, she opens the White Chronicle to read a passage about it.

Jasmine found that Tymarians were once a descendant of the Titans, ancient beings that Bathala created to move mountains and adjust the world as he deemed. They were huge as the very mountain they pushed. All Titans are born with their soul mates and inhabit the same body. Thus a Titan always has two heads and living the lives as one. After Bathala made the world, Bathala gave the Titans this continent as their home.

The Titans were living their lives to the fullest, but trouble began to brew soon. As the Titans grew older, fighting amongst them became an everyday thing. It started as a marital argument between a husband and wife; then it snowballed into other items to the point that some of the Titans could not stand their spouses. This created discord within the Titans, and they were unable to operate as an effective government. Finally, it turned for the worst as the Titans could not stand each other to the point of madness and resorted to murdering their spouses if it meant having some peace.

It was believed that there was a wise Titan who made a potion that allowed a Titan to separate their bodies into two. This solved the Titans' issue of splitting themselves from their spouses, and soon peace returned to the land. And to honour his endeavour, the Titans named the continent after him, Tymar.