Aeon Nether & Idol Effigy

Chapter 85- Too Much

With a deep guttural sigh escaping me, in ways I didn't think possible, I roughly planned out the rest of my day.

Breakfast was finished, but instead of studying in the library I decided to bring my studying materials into what was now my private practice room. Unhindered by annoying strangers. I thought I'd have time to completely finish using active touch on all of the warehouse supplies in at least the abandoned or dangerous warehouse. Right now, however, Felixe had a talk with me and I felt like I should just do what he said without getting arrogant in thinking I could place in the top five without trying. So now touching up a warehouse full of things under the pretence of tidying up, for some reason unknown to the audience watching me, that was going to be a little hard to do.

An hour spent on re-choosing and rearranging my song was spent. Then it was immediately followed by an hour of singing and creating some basic choreography for the song. Eventually, I sat down to stretch whilst thinking of staging and what kind of things I should wear. My hair was long and I didn't want it in the way most of the time when I did more energetic dances where my hair would get annoying. This time my hair will be helpful in my performance so I left it all out and practised not getting any feedback or interference with my hair on a microphone when I danced.

I recorded it once before lunch and decided to eat within the practice room that now smelled of sweat. Then opened the windows a bit to let the cool air in. There must have been something pleasant cooking outside, because it smelled good enough to raise my appetite further.

I proceeded to study after this by watching some lecture videos and taking notes.

It was five thirty pm when I stopped and practised for my performance again. Every now and then I'd record myself to know where to tweak my performance. When it was close to ten pm I decided to go back to my dorm room in the villa to wash up.

Everyone seemed to be keeping the house active at this time. It almost made me forget about using my active touch skill for the day. Almost.

After I cleaned up quickly, stopping every now and then to touch things. I realised it must have been strange to see me pausing for ten seconds, so I quickly logged into my livestream paranoid. Although, when I tried to rewind the video a bit I noticed that I didn't seem to pause in the real world for ten seconds.

Curious, I picked up a rubber that I already activated my past memory ability on and tossed it into the air before activating touch on another notebook of mine on the bed. In mid air the rubber seemed to have paused slightly. I noticed it in my peripherals. I also noticed the headache I got when I tried to turn my head to its direction. It felt like I was trying to split my head into two and concentrate on two things.

A groan escaped my mouth when my active finished and the rubber hit the bed duvet with a soft dull noise. At this moment the door to my bedroom opened as someone used another key. It was Felixe who entered once again. Somehow having a key to my room.

His eyes moved over the things arranged on my bed discreetly. I didn't know if I should take the discreet look as judgemental or not. I ended up deciding that my head hurt too much to continue thinking about such trivial things so I called out the name of the intruder.

"Felixe?", I half sang playfully as I picked up the rubber and notebook that I activated with touch already. I tried to play the strange things he clearly noticed when he entered the room by pretending to read or search for something within the notebook before putting it back in the desk drawer.

Felixe seemed to have picked up on the unnaturalness of my 'natural' acting. "Is something up?"

"The sky?", I murmured dumbly.