Find It! The Wishes Hidden in Winter #2

Chapter 19: Our Present

Rough, hot, and humid...that's how the air felt. Phronesis used magic to lift various rocks, crevices, and toppled buildings while leading hundreds of people into the open plains. Yelling directions and commands over the flames of war.

It was hard to breath, and sometimes---they'd mispronounce a part of their incantation and a totally different spell would occur. Sometimes useful, sometimes it was not.

"Go straight, follow the trail!" Phronesis shouted to an old couple. "Huddle close!"

"We're going to die!"

Phronesis looked around, watching a horde of people, grouped together---some clutching their heads while other stared at the sky. Right where Fire Triangle and Absolute Zero were walking.

"This is our punishment! God has given up on us!" shouted another man. "For all the murders we've done! Now we're about to be killed!" He bellowed.

"No----" And then Phronesis stopped, and then frowned. "The guilt, it's finally hit them. So many years holding it in...and now it was bursting out."

One woman, lost and deranged, made an attempt to throw herself into the flames.

Phronesis's reflexes kicked in and in a flash was pulling the woman back, tossing her over their shoulder. "STOP!"

The woman was screaming and refused to sit still. "I WON'T! I WON'T!" she got up and Phronesis pinned her down. "NO! LET GO OF ME!"

Although tiny compared to the woman, Phronesis had a very firm grip. Easily pinning her down with superhuman strength.

She made loud crying sounds and her teeth were clicking.

"But I saw it! Our en------"

"No!" Phronesis argued back,"Nothing's going to happen to you. No one's dying."

Unconvinced, the woman shook her head. "I don't believe you!" Many others shook their heads in disbelief. "All we know is that those two things are destroying everything." she pointed above his head.

Phronesis sighed and closed their eyes. They wanted proof, they'd get some proof.

"All right, let me show you." Releasing the woman, Phronesis twirled around their scepter, extending their arm, an incantation within reach.

"Vivamus vestibulum!~"

This was a very overcomplicated, very complex spell--required a complete focus of the cerebrum and the peripheral nervous system. Every sensation, feeling, and disturbance would affect this connection, their eyes would become the screen that would show them everything.

Phronesis concentrated on the people, who needed to view the fight the most. Who desperately wanted the truth, curious and expectant, who felt lost.

Focusing on this clump of emotions, circulating into the alchemist's body from all directions, Phronesis followed the these emotions to it's core. They forced a projection into the ground of the grassy open plains, and another somewhere far, far away----but just as familiar to Phronesis.

"Start."

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And so Mrs. Oozora walked with the other adults, into th cafeteria where, it not all, students and faculty members were situated, their voices silent and unmoving.

Of course, they'd known Emiyo had returned. It had been lunch time when they could hear her voice reverberate across the walls. Yet no one was allowed to go see her.

However, they were all just as curious to find out how things were going. If they were winning, losing, craving the many answers to their questions. Would anyone else die? Their banner lay on one of the back tables. They were getting restless.