Forgotten One

Discovery Arc: Within?

Sarah blinks through the shadows, she had bound them with a seal to her room causing a cold dark mist to form.

Some of them were from when she and Joanna had caught them; they had decided to camp out in the forest for a few nights and in some woodlands closer to home.

Other shadows had been from her classmates, who claimed they owed her a favour for her helping them during the war classes and never gotten the change to thank her.

Sarah could buff and support those who were not even in her group.

In fact, students from other classes came and gave her shadows. Most were from the first year but there were also second, third and fourth year.

The shadows were tiny and others were big. They gave what they could and he was very grateful because of it- Sarah did not know just how many people really knew her, they knew of her, but not enough to know her by name.

The other teens would randomly walk up to her and called out her name, clap their hands and then gave her the sound shadow... Even a bully who hurt her badly in the past came up and threw a sealed shadow in her face if it had not been him she may have laughed.

At first, she thought it was because her kind deed in trying to help almost everyone she saw needed it, was paying for her...

Until she realizes the real reason for this.

Sarah sighs as she stares through the cold darkness without fear.

Someone had started a rumour around the town' teens.

According to 'legend' giving a shadow to a light bearer could lead them to their soul mates... in this boring little neutral zone that only had one city, three towns and nine villages, finding love... for the more romantic teens, was a big deal.

Sarah pauses... that beefy bully had given her a shadow, meaning he wanted to find a soul mate...

Sarah had no right to laugh but she did snort loudly, his tough outward appearance did not reflect this.

Shaking her head she stares around at the shadows that had built up, she had enough power within her to hold them... but she was wondering if she walls would hold up.

Sarah thought about it for a moment, wondering what casts could be used... a seal of an earth bearer could help, gravel was the hardest ones for her to control because oddly enough, she had authority over the shadows.

"Sarah?" Corinna calls through the open doorway, daring not to enter- she could just about make out her outline, "Are you in here?"

"I'm here Grandma!" Sarah shouts back, she swims through the current of weighty shadows, holding her arms out in front of herself and heading for the door.

"Sarah," Corinna says when she sees her, she takes hold of her granddaughter's arms and drags her the rest of the way; they stared at each other for a moment, "Thank you have enough?"

"I'm not sure..." Sarah admits with a small smile, she gazes through his dark doorway, it looked almost pitch black in there, not even sunlight from her windows was getting through, "You said when I was a baby, you had thousands of shadows to blind me for balance. Do you think it's enough to hide my light as an adult?"