The Disappearing Fields

chapter 7

So, my little brother got into my phone and messed up chapter 6, so I took the chance to rewrite/ alter it. You should reread that to understand what's going on. Sorry!

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+Haven+

"You can figure out the type of Essence you have based on the spirits you've seen. Being Shadows, we are ingrained in nature. So it's only natural to see spirits. Spirits are attracted to people with similar type of essence. Its common for those who have a healing essence to see mermaids. Or those with a Growth essence to see Mandrake roots. Just keep in mind that there as many different types of essence as there are stars in the Sky ." Kaz explains while reading a book he found. I don't know how he can read and talk about a completely different subject at the same time. But he can.

I nod along, half listening. After hours of talking about spirits, it's getting kinda boring. It's almost as if he knows I can see strange things. But there's a major difference between seeing spirits and knowing when someone's about to die.

Niko probes my cheek with a fruit loop . "Here go." Opening my mouth, he tosses the cereal in.

"Okay. So let's say I see those little floating thingys. What would be my essence."

"Which kind?"

"There are different kinds?" I ask as I watch Niko eat the cereal. Surprisingly, 2 year old are very picky. Niko didn't want one type of cereal. He had to have Cinnamon toast crunch, Fruit loops and Marshmellow Oats. Whenever he comes across a good one, usually the marshmallows or cinnamon toast, he eats it. When it's the nasty kind he feeds it to me. "Here go." I eat the offered cheerio.

He sighs. "Yes Haven. Sprites have translucent wings while pixies have colorful wings. Sprites and pixies are for winds essence, but they have different effects. Sprites are more for wind offensive and defensive essence. Pixies are more for wind related abilities."

"I've seen both. And unicorns."

Kaz furrowed his brow while looking at me over the top of his book. "Well, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. Just that most of us don't have more than one Essence. But you're not like the rest so it's probably nothing to worry about. Though it doesn't exactly fit."

"What do you mean?"

"Wind is a common Essence. Thats your essence. I saw you use it. But it doesn't match your eyes."

My eyes? What do they have to do with it? My eyes are weird. Nothing else can be said about them. Even Jake said they were an engima and something to study.

Kaz looks at me while tilting his head to the side. "Your eyes are beautiful. But wind is light blue. Your eyes are amber. Symbolizing light as your essence. Seeing the unicorn would match if your essence was light. But yet you use wind magic. Hmm." He studied me and fidgetted under his intense gaze.

I'm not a lab rat you can study you know. " Well then maybe somethings wrong with me?"

He shook his head "must be this place. You've been here in the visible world far too long and it altered your essence. Thats the only thing it could be."

Alter my essence? "I thought Essence was ingrained in a person the moment their born. It can't be changed easily."

"Easily no. But it can still be changed. The visible world lacks light essence. There are very few places that can harbour the purity needed for light to fester and grow. The visible world is different from our own. There are only four essences in this world. Water, fire, wind, and Earth."

"The four elements."

He nodded "every essence can be traced back to one of these four elements. But only these four exist in abundance in this world. That must be why your essence is wind. Because light doesn't exist here."