The Outside World

7: New things? New people.

We were tired, Nolan and I, with our obvious lack of survival skills, we just slept against the wall, even though it was very uncomfortable, cold, and moist. Thankfully, nothing attacked us and we woke up in the morning. See, we didn't have anything to tell time here, so all we knew was that it was morning. "Hellooooo? Vita? Get up, if you want to do something then get up." Nolan woke me up from my 8 hour long nap, as I mumbled some gibberish. "Seriously, we aren't home anymore. Get up." After a while, we started walking around without knowing what we were doing, well because, we didn't. We walked through the forest, the unfamiliar surroundings with the aroma of mint flora in the air. I didn't like it, it's too lonely. "Nolan, it's scary here." I fiddled with my dirty but white tunic, the friction between my fingers made it warm. "What? Wanna go back home?" Before I could respond, a rhythmic crunch of leafs interrupted, sound of footsteps. We spun around, to see a man. Dark Olive skin, and earthy brown eyes, butttt..."AH!" I screamed, clutching Nolan's arm. "Branches are growing out of his head!" I hid behind Nolan, in which Nolan was confused, to much to function. "Are you both lost?" The man gently, but sternly spoke up. Nolan pulled me toward me, in a protective stance. "Who are you?" Nolan asked, well, yelled. "My name is Terrane." The man, now called Terrane answered gradually. "I don't mean harm, if that's what you're worried about." Still, we were weary. "Then...what? Sorry, but what are you?" The faintest hint of trust on Terrane's cold face sprung up. "That." He paused , "that's a story, a long one. And also to you young lady, I don't have tree branches growing out of my head, it's deer antlers." Now that I look at him without screaming, he had a pocket watch dangling from one of his antlers. In the middle of the watch, was a gray gem inside, this guys a gem user? I wonder if Terrane's a first gem, maybe he's a secondary gem, or a birth gem(i haven't mentioned what gems are, so go to the bottom to get a description.)! Ohhhhhh that would be so cool. "My sister and I are just trying to find-" Nolan cut himself off, not knowing what to say. "Trying a find something, at least." Terrane thought about something for a moment, before talking again. "Well then, will you young ones allow me to be of help?"

System of Gem: Gems are like little sources of power you earn them from either a passion, anger, ambition or any powerful emotion once you've experienced that emotion enough. There are multiple types of gem users, Birth gems, First gems, and secondary gems. Birth gems are people who develop gems in the womb, snd because of that, they are immortal, unless they pass their gem down to their children(which in most cases they don't). They can only die if they k—l themselves, or of another birth gem k—ls them. people who develop a gem first are called first gems, which they can live very very long, but are not immortal. If they pass that gem down to their children, they live a normals human lifespan, but The children don't get to live as long but still long because they aren't first gems, but rather secondary gems. Secondary gems, are just people who either have gotten a gem passed down from a birth gem or first gem, or are not the first person in your bloodline history to develop a gem(my other stories Rose's of blood and War in my chest has more secondary gems then birth gems or first gems.)