𝚃𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝙾𝚏 𝙷𝚎𝚛 {A kotlc SoKeefe fanfic}

The forbidden cities

I stared at my mom for a long time thinking, how could she still be alive? I thought she was beat to death by ogres. "How are you still alive?" I asked talking without thinking. "Well I escaped, I bribed the ogre holding me prisoner and made him bail me out." Mom of the year replied sounding good about herself. "Ummm I got to go to bed but I guess I'll see you around" I said but I added another phrase. "Not on purpose". She rolled her eyes and turned saying "Goodnight my legacy." I had heard her call me that a couple times but I still didn't know what it really meant.

I crashed onto my bed and fell asleep immediately thanks to the pounding headache from previous training that day. I hoped that tomorrow wouldn't be as boring. I awoke still feeling tired but got up early enough that I wasn't late for training. (Which saved me from another kick in the ribs) Fintan had said that today's training would be interesting so I was kind of exited to see what he had planned. I got into the training room and saw Fintan facing me, he looked more giddy than normal which kinda scared me. "So, what's the training for today?" I asked enthusiastically. "We will be going to the forbidden cities."

He held up his light leaping crystal and we leaped into what looked like Lumenaria just less glittery. Fintan quickly told me that we were in the streets of New York City. There were people rushing all around us I felt like I could feel there emotions but it was a different feeling, not like feeling elvin emotions. I was confused on what I had to do until Fintan explained it to me. "You are going to try to feel the humans emotions, then tell me EXACTLY how they are feeling. I know you can already feel some of it but I want it to consume you until you feel like you are having their emotions." I was a little confused but I tried any ways. I first tried hard to think about the emotions of a little boy who looked about four years old. "I feel a little bit of happiness and anticipation from that little boy over there." I said to Fintan.

"Okay, but how do they REALLY feel." I didn't know what he meant, I had felt emotions then stated them to him. I then tried on a mom who was holding a newborn baby. "She feels nervous, and a hint of love." I said hoping that would satisfy him. "Okay, again but how does she really feel?" He replied. "I don't know what you mean, I've been saying how they really feel and it's not good enough?" I replied hoping it didn't sound rude. "Tell me why they feel the emotion, connect with them and how they are feeling, then you'll feel it too." I tried again this time on an old man looking at a photo of what looked like his wife. "I feel guilt, sadness, longing, because his wife died. He misses her and now all he can look at is the photo of her..." I said to Fintan feeling bad for the old man. "That is exactly what I was looking for." He said as he got out his leaping crystal and leaped us back to the Neverseen hide out.