Quantum

Quantum 3 : Lumiere Fantasia

Myra

We kept on walking and walking until we entered the forest, "Do you know that this is the forest I hold in my heart the most?"

I looked to the trees, "Why..? Is it the scenery that surrounds us..? You know, the trees..?"

"Nope." She looked at me with this nonchalant face.

I sighed, "Well, I have no clue... what is it?"

Yiniri looked to the ground and picked up something. "I guess, this is part of the... scenery, though only a few can see it, mainly because it is very small."

I looked to what she is holding and asked, "Hm? Is that a flower..?" I tried to act nonchalant and said, "Wow... this forest sure is special."

She crossed her arms and looked at me in hidden disgust. "Is acting nonchalant your specialty or something? Or are you just pretending to lose my attention? Well, this flower that I am holding is the 'Lumiere Fantasia' or so I would call it."

I still tried to act nonchalant and leaned on a tree. "Yeah, so..?"

Yiniri rolled her eyes at me, "If you continue this act, I would hate you... forever. Besides, I am trying to explain this so please just listen," She twirled her hair, "as I said, this is the 'Lumiere Fantasia' - a flower that has two variants, the normal variant and the special variant - this one is the normal variant, all of the 'Lumiere Fantasia' in this forest are normal... but my teacher gave me more than a normal variant, she made it special. She put a glistening finish to this flower and she used her powers to make it as glittery as it is glistening." She blushed and looked back to me.

I wanted to act nonchalant but I was interested in the flower, "Wow! If I knew it was that special from the first place... then I have probably ditched my nonchalant act."

"You just need to learn how to listen," Yiniri put the flower back to the ground and straightened its stem, "in the Zarne, trust is the hardest thing to obtain from us - the citizens - especially if you are a foreigner, food is easy to get, just ask politely and you'll surely get it... the same for water."

I looked at my arm and pretended to look at something, "Oh my... I am so sorry! I did not know that you guys are that strict. I am so sorry... I hope you are not mad at me."

Yiniri stepped out of the forest and I followed, "So you are polite to... 'exclusive' people only..? How weird, our teacher always tells us to be polite in everything we do." she smirked.

I sighed, "Well... if you put it that way, it is technically incorrect because I was just pretending to act nonchalant about the topic," I looked towards the ocean ahead, "so... we need a boat to cross the ocean..?"

We kept on walking and saw three seagulls flying up and down, "These seagulls are a sign that there is fine weather. If those seagulls weren't around... you would have seen our teacher summon an enormous umbrella. It is a rare occurence though, so... it is rarely seen by us but if we see it, it is an amazing sight... much like seeing an aurora borealis up in the sky."

Yiniri signalled me to stop because the ocean was harder to get to as it seems, "Naive as usual? You could have fallen 250 kilometers down this pretty stiff cliff," she snapped her fingers and then a parachute appeared, "I promise you that this is true... our lives would be at risk if this were a silly illusion..."

I buckled myself in the parachute and she buckled herself behind me, "It has been a while since I used a parachute and this is my first time to actually parachute down a cliff, how exciting..!"

She just took a running start and jumped, we glided down and as I could feel the force of gravity pulling us down even faster, Yiniri pulled a rope on the side of the parachute and it did its thing. "So... you will now enter our town, remember your politeness in greeting the townsfolk and know respect," I brushed my feet down the ground and she balanced me as we took a successful landing, "We're finally here!"

I looked around in awestruck and breathed nervously. Okay, here we go...