I was really glad I had talked to my Discovery guidance lecturer. For once I wasn't looking for a way out of the room, I actually had more that I wanted to know, but I decided twenty seven minutes was long enough for me to pester someone with my questions.
Wow a lot has changed...
I started thinking back on how in just two days, everything seemes new. My whole life, everything I knew, had changed. I decided to try and make a mental list of everything.
1) Humans aren't alone; we're sort of a separate race called Eeries because we're weird and have freaky stares.
2) So far I had two Abilities, Sight and Strength; I was really strong and could beat people much more comfortable and used to this whole thing in battles; I had very clear Sight, I had seen two interpretations of me and I was able to distinguish them which apparently takes a lot of skill and a lot of time to learn.
3) Anna-Jess has the gift of Intellect, she can remember things really well and can somehow know things without being told them. Basically, she has this mind filing-cabinet that stores all information she Learns in a way where she will never lose that piece of information, and when she's with someone with an Ability or something of the like (the Tree and the Book) the filing cabinet takes and stores information from the other's filing cabinet and never loses that either. But it's all subconscious, she doesn't even realize she's doing it until she suddenly knows something she wouldn't have otherwise.
4) My list of facts was getting longer and longer as the numbers got higher
Okay, forget the list, it was hopeless. There was no way to sum up everything I had Learned in the last two days.
And it was about to get all the worse.
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It was a week maybe after my first day, and not much else interesting had happened. I had been into a number of Strength Battles and won every single one effortlessly. After about two or thee days I found my Sight to look the same from person to person. It meant that things were settling down and I finally was getting used to everything here. It was about time, I wasn't sure how many anxiety attacks I had. When I thought back I realized I had only had two, but it was still more than I'd had in a long time. I was just glad they were over and my nerves had almost completely calmed down.
I hadn't really looked at the Book since that first day I checked it out. But for some reason I just couldn't bring myself to return it. And with the Bookcase you could have them for up to a month before you had to return it, no exceptions. I guessed I'd just return it then. But I was also afraid of what happened that first time, and if it would happen again when I opened the page. While people's True Image is really amazing to look at, it's frightening in a way. I really wanted to be done with my True Image for now.
And, after a visit to my Utilization guidance lecturer I now knew how to choose when I Saw myself and didn't, so I actually didn't have to ever go through that with AJ again. Thinking back, I didn't even know if she realized what I was unknowingly doing. Probably, I almost forgot she had Intellect. I realized that it kind of suited her, she was talking so much she must have a lot of stuff in her brain. I wonder if Shutting People Out That Pointlessly Talk To You" is an Ability... I once again had to stop myself because she was, in fact, my only friend.
I looked around and the Book caught my eye. It started changing colors and... Seriously? Again? What is it with this book?
But it wasn't me this time. It was the vision I had gotten from the Tree. The grass, the hills, the moons, the lake, all of it. I had to open it again. Time seemed to be moving slower and slower as I opened the book and no matter how fast I tried to open it I just couldn't go faster. When it finally came open, I wished it hadn't.
On the page it showed the school literally collapsing in on itself, the walls coming down and everything this school had ever built, ever done for these students, ever owned was all gone. We were left to ourselves with nothing we could do. Then suddenly I felt like I was the one crumbling down, decaying, being destroyed with nothing I could do, being helpless.
I shut the book and threw it across the room. I sat there, minutes, panting and confused. What had happened to this school? Why would it just collapse like that?
Much as I didn't want to, I knew I had to open the Book. I had to find out what that was.
This time when I opened it though, I made sure to turn to the second page. To my relief, it was just writing. I thanked heaven a million times before reading it. I decided to kind of skim around the introduction until I found something that caught my eye.
When Jozenaia rebelled against the Eerademy, it took all their effort to conceal him and the secret he was betraying.
The prophesized One with Many had come and far out-Strengthed him. In an act of rebellion, he laid waste to the school and the people inside. He knew that once something happened to the school, people would come investigating and find out the truth about the Eeries and humans would experiment, judge, and disown them to extinction, ensuring there would never be a One with Many to defeat a Jozenaia descendant. He came from a long family line known for their unmatchable Strength in combat, but lived in great fear of the prophesized One with Many. At that time, there was no such thing, for there was a rule that no two people with different Abilities were allowed to wed should their child end up with more than one Ability. There was great fear of the power that One would posses. But there was a prophecy about a line of Ones with Many that occurred naturally, and it was said they would have unmatched power in Abilities from all categories. The prophesized One would save the world that no one knew from the one that all feared.
When plotting his revenge against the One with Many, his greatest strength was also his worst weakness. He took too much time to set his plan into action. Using his Strength and the Strength of those who sided with him, he wanted to bring every person with Abilities down by destroying the one place they had ever been able to call home; the Eerademy. He achieved his goal in that the school was destroyed, but the prophesized One with Many was not. The few surviving that had Abilities eventually found Jozenaia and locked him away to never be found. But what was not known until later, was that there was a woman who was with his child. The child itself was a personification of vengeance and hatred towards the One with Many family line, and vowed to one day have a son who would officially defeat the One with Many and once again have the Strength the family used to.
The few people with Abilities left joined together and made a council, deciding to call themselves the Eeries. In an effort to conceal the child's true identity, they gave the child to a different family, where he would be kept away from the rest for a few years until he was unrecognizable, and would not face harm.
What the Council also did not know until later, was that the child was not from parents of the same Ability. His mother had Observation. Jozenaia's son was not One with Many, but he had Observation as his Ability. He could tell how different he was to his family. Knowing he was adopted, and realizing how alike he was to the legend Jozenaia, he realized his true heritage was not what he had been told. Like his father, he vowed to one day defeat the One with Many that had caused him to lose his father and mother.
When the time came and he was ready to be married, he chose a mate that had Strength, so that his descendants would be as his father was; Strong beyond compare. But they would always have a sense of who they were, no matter what they were told because of the Observation of Jozenaia's mate.
When the passage ended I just stared. I couldn't form a thought, I was completely dumbfounded. This school however weird always seemed like a normal school. I didn't think anything like this could've been going on, and for so long. This book was written two hundred years ago!
Then I got scared. I was the One with Many. The way everyone had said it, you would have thought there would have been at least a few others, like hey no big deal, she has more than one Ability. But could I really be the only one? JUST my family being the ones who had some long history with another family who hated each other? It was so much to take in.... I thought of everyone I had run into throughout the last week, and no one struck me as being some huge secret enemy that had insane Strength and that knew who I was but I had no idea about him...
Then it hit me.
Post who you think it's gonna be! Who is this mysterious arch enemy out to get Amy-Lynn?
