Colors in the Dark

[13] Not Yet

A/N: Now that that arc is over, it's time for Ayami to practice her still-wild powers- and for you learn a little bit more about our young heroine's past!

Though her sleep was plagued with vague visions of her past, Ayami managed to sleep through the evening and night, waking up just before the sun was set to rise. She made a breakfast of eggs and toast, sitting down on the small couch her apartment had come with.

The place was small, just including a kitchen, living/dining room, bedroom, and bathroom, but it was enough for the redhead who inhabited it and just barely managed to get by. And with school now taking up most of her day, she was in the cramped shelter less and less often.

"Don't use your quirk anywhere but areas permitted in school, until you get your hero license, you aren't legally able to use it anywhere else," Ayami remembered being told by her teachers and a few policemen.

If an orphanage can be run like that and still be legal, or at least illegal and unsupervised by law, then there's no way I can follow such a rule when I'm only practicing my control at home. My quirk is a part of who I am, and the spirits are the only "family" I have outside my classmates. We've been wronged too many times to be shut down for something so innocent.

So, Ayami decided, she's barricade herself in her apartment and practice with her... less destructive spirits that could work independently. Meaning mostly Ansaluia and Brizo.

The red-haired teen changed from the pajamas she had managed to throw on before she passed out the night previous into a gray tank top with a faded black t-shirt over it and a pair of worn jeans, with a few holes around her knees. The kind that became that way naturally, from wear-and-tear, not from stylistic choice.

As usual, she was in long gray-brown stockings, no shoes. For as long as Ayami had a say in her clothing, her feet would remain free.

She first joined with the Formation spirit, becoming her indigo-eyed self, and slowly began to create objects. First a hook for her backpack, then a sticky adhesive to stick it on the wall. Ansaluia/Ayami began to walk around the house, building up cells and trying to extend their time together before ejection.

The first somewhat-complex item they made was a snow globe, having to create the base, the glass, the object inside, the liquid it was filled with, and the snow particles in a specific order yet almost at once at the same time.

Safe to say, the first two failed, though the third was okay. The last of their combined strength went to making a rag to soak up some of the globe liquid that had gone into the carpet (thanks to the failed attempts) before Ansaluia was ejected.

"We did a good job, Ayami!" The blue-violet spirit reminded her. "And now we know how to make snow globes!"

The ginger took a deep breath and fished out a bottle of water and a small container of rice. "True... but I forgot how hungry making extra cells makes me..."

Ayami ate in silence, allowing her headache to recede to manageable levels and her body to stop screaming at her for food. She could tell Brizo was preparing, trying to get hints about her visions.

Suddenly, and idea popped into Ayami's head. "Hey, Brizo?"

The violet spirit hummed. "Yes?"

"If we worked on it enough, do you think you could start seeing glimpses of the near future... even if we aren't together? Since it takes so much effort and strength for us to share Headspace directly, and it'd be good if only to alert us of potential dangers so we have at least a few seconds to prepare..."