Overlap

Chapter 103: Clairsentience

<04/17/2013 - 15:00 | 1010 Link Street, Marietta, GA, USA>

As I sat silently in the back yard of the house, alone with everyone else at work or school, I felt pretty amazing considering the slow day I drifted through. Thanks to my powers growing and expanding rapidly, the day was only going to become more eventful.

After the bombardment of psionic practice last week, tacked onto the fact that I've become somewhat of a high school loner these days, I decided this morning would be a good idea to take a break from it all. I normally don't get the right to just stay home from school just because I feel like it, so I simply feigned a headache to stay home, just this once. I've had headaches less frequently since a couple of months ago, and thankfully it didn't take much to convince anybody that I was too sick for school.

I sure wasn't about to waste the break either. This morning and afternoon were still amazingly cold. It's like an arctic blast blew through here and made the area much colder than its normal April average. Shouldn't take much to guess that I called Lumina again. Spending some quality time with her at home was more fun this way.

Still, even though I was burned out on school for the moment, it didn't mean I was exempt from my psionic practice... Okay, skipping one day on that wouldn't be so bad either, but I want to keep up with this practice. Seeing eighteen hours into the future of any remote location I want to is becoming more amazing the longer I use it, unless I use it directly on myself. It's no wonder the Altiri use the ability to much to watch us humans. We're a reality TV show to them, and now to me as well.

I'm not going to spend too much time on it tonight. I only want to pop in real quick, see what's going on at school. Not today of course! School is basically about to be over today anyway. I'm interested in the early beginning and middle parts of my tomorrow. Maybe if I'm lucky, I can snuff out a pop quiz before one surprises me. Still, in order to do this, I'll still target everyone else before myself, simply for the reason that some of my usual suspects experience heightened emotions a little more often than I do.

I asked Lumina to stand by for the moment for my next phase of clairvoyance, which she happily obliged. I did everything the same way as I did last time, planned on using the same invocation style in the same way. However, when I concentrated with shut eyes and activated my projections, my own partial clairvoyance was cut short, and replaced by something else entirely.

My visual perception went dark, but deep inside, I felt a controlling rush of anticipation and excitement, so strongly that I mirrored the sensation through myself. Even Lumina could feel it echoing off me.

"Everything good?" Lumina tried to understand why I was washed with such powerful excitement, trying to understand what she could not see.

What I felt kept me engaged in the continuous use of my projection for longer than I meant to be involved, but once the ability ended, I was so sure that whatever I felt was part of the entire school, outside of myself. This exact feeling, this kind of excitement, it's too unlikely me to be a spontaneous spur of the moment without any planning, especially if it's coming from within the high school. What the heck was that I just felt? "Maybe? Look, just give me a moment to try again. Something went wrong that time."

"Okay." Lumina gave me her silence and her patience, waiting on me to determine what the next day should be like in advance.

Meanwhile, I tried again with more patience than before to invoke clairvoyance again. It was strange to me that everything I was supposed to see suddenly became contaminated with strong foreign emotion, but not entirely surprising. Something like that happens on rare occasions during my moments of clairvoyance invocation. I'll try and focus on a moment, and instead, I'll suddenly become immersed in some strong feelings. At the same time, I almost sense who or where these feelings come from, but I concluded like all previous instances for this to just be a fluke. So, I tried once more.