Uname Demah

Baubles [7]

"Where the hell are we?" Lisa yelled.

We had finally made it down into the Witchs's basement, but nothing here was normal.  As we got further and further down the blue haze only thickened and at the bottom we ended up in a dark mist that engulfed everything making it difficult to see any of our surrounding, even each other. Time to time I would see a blue or lavender bubble past by us bobbling through the air.  Suddenly Sarah spoke from a place I couldn't see.

"Peli, DO NOT touch the bubbles, if you do I cannot guarantee your existence back into this time loop, do you understand?"

I heard Peli whimper somewhere further ahead of myself.

"I supposed I have to rid all of the haze otherwise there will be no moving forward or back."

Lisa grumbled somewhere not far from myself.  "Why does she always have to speak in riddles the woman could just say just what she means.  What she said was not even creative..."

A sudden wind cleared the air making the basement visible to everyone, Peli flew from a shelf right into Lisa's arms.  Sarah turned out was sitting on the ceiling as if that was the most normal thing in the world, before she suddenly dropped down to face us.

"Not freaky at all, no, not at all.  Just a damn fine day - Uname you owe me."  Lisa backed away into the corner, with Peli trying to hide himself

Sarah smirked at the two of them.  The blue and lavender orbs still circled us in the air.  Deciding now would be a good as time as any I spoke up.

"Sarah, what the hell did you do to him?" I said as I stuck my thumb out at Peli.

The Witch tilted her head as her eyes shone red.

Lady Monclair mumbled from the back.  "U-Name Dem-ah, you definitely owe me."

"Well, I'm waiting."

The Witch's eye went back to normal as she faced Uname.  "You poor girl, you really already lost part of your memory haven't you?  Peli is human they weren't lying to you.  I turned him into that animal a while back when he broke one of the rules while apprenticing with me."

"Peli was apprenticing with you?"

"Yes, the only apprentice I have ever had and the last one."  She gave Peli a glare.  "There was only one rule, do no touch anything during the experiments we conducted, take notes, observe, but do not touch anything."  Sarah stalked towards Peli.

"But this fool could not hold his hands back, so to teach him a lesson I turned him into the worthearts he loves so much."

"How long has it been since then?"

"About five years."  Sarah said while checking her nails.

Five...Five years?!

"Isn't it time that you changed him back, I'm sure he has learned his lesson."

"No.  Did you not see what he was doing as soon as he came down here?  He tried to touch my orbs."

"Oh.... um yeah."  I threw Peli a look, which he avoided.

"What are those orbs anyways.... I know you said that he may not return if he touched them."

"They are time capsules, not the kind that people buried in the past, but they are living links to the time and era that they were extracted from.  It allows me to travel freely from point to point - without losing my memories."  Sarah looks up from her nails to give Uname a pointed look.

I look away as I feel her gaze burning the side of my face.  She's telling me I'm an idiot again. sigh.

Suddenly Lady Monclair spoke up from the corner forgetting her fear and making her way to the centre of the room.  "You mean to tell us that you've had a way to travel without permanently damaging your memory that you have not shared with the rest of Aistaria?  You Witch!  Here we are literally telling you we need a remedy and now you're here telling us that you already have a way?!"

I look at Lisa, what happened to the sweet young girl that I once knew? I hadn't realized how much she hated her cousin.

Sarah let Lady Monclair have her say before she spoke up.  "As I was about to tell the both of you... even though I have a method and means of travel that does not affect memory it is still not a secure way of travel."  Sarah bent over and pulled something out of her boot, abruptly she tossed it over in Lady Monclair's direction who nearly dropped it.

"That is the prototype that I have been working on, the means of sharing it with the rest of Aistaria as you so put it."  Lady Monclair held a thin wooden stick that oddly resembled a pipe, but the shank was much too long, whittled too thin and the chamber where one would place tobacco was much too small. 

"What is this?"  

"That dear cousin is the prototype that I have been working on the last six years.  A second kind of way to travel, except instead of coins it creates bubbles."  Sarah motioned to the bubbles in the air. 

"Wait you mean to say that we can travel directly to a timeline instead of riding the wave and not lose our memories?"  Lady Monclair despite herself looked amazed and Peli looked in awe, he even spared a glance at Sarah who quirked an eyebrow at him.

Perhaphs that was the project he was supposed to be helping her on before he messed up and she turned him into a wortheart.

"That's right, but its not done yet plus years of practice just to master it, it is not something simply anyone can wield."

Turning I stared at Sarah.  "You speak of it as though it is a weapon."

"Ah, but it is Uname, its a weapon against the user if they do no know of to make it do its bidding and its a weapon against humanity if that user does know how to really use it."

Uname thought about this for a minute before she decided to question Sarah.

"Then why create it at all?  Why make something that can completely destroy the entire existence of the Salvac races?"

Discussion starter:  Who are the Salvac races? (and no it does not reference any real life people or geography, everything in this story is from my imagination unless specifically stated otherwise) And why do you think Uname is getting riled up despite what she is getting herself into?