Superhuman: Realizations

Chapter 9

(Elana)

"Well, that was one hell of a ceremony huh?" I asked Mia, wanting to change the subject from what happened last night.

We never went out that night. That was the first time I've seen her like that... distressed. I've never seen Mia act like that... I've never seen her act so delusional, so anguished.

... it... it just wasn't like her.

"Eh, things are always strange when new Superlings move in" Mia said as she stared at the wall, but I could sense her mind was still racing. Still recovering.

I nodded, grabbing the remote and turning on the TV. "Want to watch some old anime?" I asked her, knowing she enjoyed watching anime as much as I did. Mia nodded; her face still blank as I turned on one of her favorites.

Mia watched it as I went to go get some popcorn, watching another season of it. We could watch it all night, but I had my first day of school in the morning at 9 am and Mia most likely had Superhuman work to do.

I didn't know what she saw, as when I knew it was distressing her so much I knew better than to ask. I did wonder though... my instincts telling me I should've asked.

No... that would've been rude, I thought, I know better.

We continued watching the anime, but my mind was mostly elsewhere; pondering a topic that came out of nowhere. Mia had yet to notice because she was engrossed in the show, but I was seeing a whole other thing.

Something isn't right... I recognized that voice... I thought, referring to the one line I managed to hear out of her mind when I accidentally read Mia's mind.

"Oh, don't worry, mi sumisa una, you won't remember a thing..."

It was familiar, it had to be THEM, one of my inner voices said, but I mentally shrugged it off. No, that's not possible. They wouldn't do such a thing, and even if they did Mia and I were probably misunderstanding it. It... it just can't be, I, the voice of reason, thought back against my seemingly irrational instincts.

I sighed silently, looking at Mia with a little bit of pity. "Hey, Mia?" she asked her Master, and Mia looked at Elana.

"Yeah?" Mia asked.

"Do you want to go out for froyo?"

Mia's eyes seemed to glow with joy, same as I know mine would if I was offered to go get froyo. Yet another thing we have in common.

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"Come on ya slow poke!" Mia said to me teasingly as we went out to get frozen yogurt.

"I'm coming, I'm coming" I said as I rolled my eyes playfully.

I hadn't gotten the chance to really explore the facility, but from what I could see it looked like a dream land.

A perfect utopia where people of all races, genders, religious beliefs, and sexualities coexisted without incident. A perfect utopia where you didn't have to rely on a sum of thin pieces of paper to get basic healthcare or basic needs of survival.

Such things would be reserved for luxuries that are otherwise not a pure necessity for mankind. As they should be.

"How come it isn't like this all over America?" I asked Mia as we walked around the bright, clean, and newly modern-looking campus.

"It can, but humans are beings that are flawed in many ways; ways our kind is not. They are susceptible to manipulation, blissfully stuck in ignorance, and blindly follow the words of anyone they find trustworthy without feeling to need to fact check. Humanity is all so fatally flawed, and that is why they are and have been consistently so corrupt" Mia told me, looking down to the ground as she explained.

It made sense to me, and I saw it firsthand. People getting bullied in school for no reason other than expressing their own individuality, their arrogance and thinking they are always right despite not looking into the other side.

Corruption is rooted in humanity, and has been for so long. Now I realize why the Superhuman race has proved to be the less flawed of the two.

Unlike humanity, we have awoken. We have faced the corruption head on and embraced it in ways that normal humans are too scared to do so.

We actually acknowledged such corruptions, and in doing so we defeated it. We have become embraced in both light and dark, twilight beings. We do not favor one side over the other, but embrace and understand both.

Every Superhuman and Superling has a different trial, a different corruption, a different trauma, but we all awoken with the same understanding.

I am now starting to understand this fact to, and I strive to. I don't care how long it would take to do so.

I looked around the many cherry blossom and maple trees sprinkled throughout the campus, getting cherry blossoms stuck in my hair and Mia chuckling at my curious expression.

"It's beautiful, isn't it?" She said to me, and I nodded back.

"Definitely" I said to her.

"It's quite something to get used to, that I know from experience. Here's a little tip, take your friends out somewhere and walk around here. I bet they aren't used to these sights either"

"Good idea! Do you think you could come to?"

"I gladly could, I even know a few secret places that would be nice to have a weekend picnic in to"

Mia and I chuckled, and before we knew it we got to the campus shops. Mia looked at me again and smiled brightly with me.

"I already know what flavor I want, what flavor would you like?" Mia asked me.

"Is my favorite one there?" I asked her, swearing there must've been stars in my eyes.

"They have all the flavors, so that is a yes"

I gasped and ran in with her, smiling ear to ear. What a good day it was.

Something still felt... off, however. I shrugged it off, chalking it up to not being used to my new home; a more logical explanation. 

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