Around her, the memory dissolved. Next to her, the fake Gale stood patiently waiting for her to return to her senses. Fhei’s mind was ablaze. Pressing her hand to her temple she felt the physical weight of her body and the pounding impulse being sent to her brain. She tried to think of a way to stop it but the more she tried to think the more intense the pain would become.
Suddenly the dimension around her collapsed into a frizzle. Clenching her physical fist, Fhei opened her eyes, realizing that she was no longer a projectile of herself. Gale was no longer visible but Fhei knew that she was still there. The world around her continued to work around her in peace. It was nice to see that the world was relaxed at the least.
Searching for shelter, Fhei eyed a tree with lush grass not too far from the waterfall. However, she didn’t know if she could physically get there on foot considering that she could hardly stay focused. Painfully pushing herself into a walking position, Fhei quickly fell as her head began to pound. She was sure that passing out where she was sitting originally wouldn’t be a problem in a peaceful place as this but some shelter would be preferred..
In the back of her head, Fhei could barely hear the voice but she concentrated to hear what her friend Gale had to say. It was quiet, almost as if she knew words were being said to her but the words wouldn’t come out correction. Tell. Tell? Fhei’s head throbbed the more she tried to decipher the message.
Import.
Fhei sighed in confusion. Tell. Import? She forced herself to keep her eyes open and stare at the area in which she would have liked to rest. Tell. Import. She pushed herself to think even though it burned to do so. For a moment, the memory of her mother coming from the kitchen into the lab pushed to the front of her mind. Suddenly, Fhei understood.
“Teleport.” She said, staring hard at the spot. A split second later, the grass seemed to be directly in front of her. Reaching out, Fhei crawled into the lush grass against the tree and curled the jacket that she assumed belong to one of her brothers against the tree for a pillow. Within moments, she became part of the silence of the world. Around her, the world continue to live on peacefully.
--
In the distance, Loun sat in a tree with his arms crossed. Okay, she knew how to teleport. Easy enough. But she couldn’t handle a couple of replays in her own memory? There had to be a reason. That or she was that weak. Which, he didn’t want to believe but secretly hoped.
Normally, he would have been able to leave this dimension, world, and timeline and go to his own. However, something was holding him here and he had slight suspicion that he had to do with this ‘Guardian’.
Glancing over her from a distance, Loun could tell that she was in a lot of physical pain. Even though she had the ability to fix it, he couldn’t let her fail in whatever it was she was meant to do in this safe haven. Gracefully jumping onto the grass beside her through his own portal, Luon knelt down quietly and passed his hand over her third degree wound on her leg. She also had a burn on her face. However, that wouldn’t kill her so he decided to allow her to fix that. Pulling his hand back, he glared as the shadow hissed at him.
This is my prey. It said as the wound on her leg dissolved. First come first serve.
“You’re lucky that I don’t obliterate you myself.” Luon warned.
But you allow the girl to fall to her doom? It asked, somewhat amused.
“No.” Luon said, as he conjured a portal behind him to return to his tree. “I can’t do everything for her. She’ll have to get rid of you on her own. However, I’ll step in if you manage to go too far.” He said, settling himself back onto the tree.
Beside him, the spirit Thiy lurked. “You spoke to it?” It asked in curiousity.
Luon nodded. “That flesh wound on her leg was going to get infected faster than the one on her face. Hopefully she can learn to heal that. I might have to if she doesn’t in the next day or so.”
“You’re allowing yourself to be here for that long?” The spirit questioned in amusement.
“I can jump timelines unlike her.” He said, with a shrug. “If there’s anything I have it’s time.”
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Fhei woke up in trance. There was warmth and a light breeze, opening her eyes she fiddled with the jacket she had curled up into a pillow. Which brother did the jacket belong to she wondered? Breathing in, Fhei cringed as she felt a pound in her chest. Something was wrong and she couldn’t quite understand what it was. Looking around, Fhei called out softly.
“Gale?”
Encasing her, was the dimension she had been to before she received that awful headache. Next to her, she sat beside her own physical body. Glancing around, it took her a minute but she found her friend. Calling out again, Fhei stared until Gale looked over.
“You’re awake.” She said, with a smile. “I wasn’t sure how long it would take you considering you had to break past the barriers that had been placed to prevent you from remembering. It was a task but I knew you could do it.”
“Barriers?” Fhei asked looking at Gale once again. “What’s wrong with you, why are you not being as warm as last time?”
The one taking Gale’s place appeared beside Fhei. “Sorry, I may be your friend but I do not have the memories of your friend since I’m using your memories to be your friend.” It said the paused. “Does that make sense?”
“In a way, yes.” Fhei said but then reached for her chest in pain. “Why is the pain ten times worse in this dimension?”! She said, suddenly clenching her own physical fist. She was no longer in the dimension with ‘Gale’. Grunting, Fhei leaned up against the tree and spread the jacket across her lap, gasping when she realized that her leg was no longer in pain.
Quickly, she touched her face, then winced in pain. Did she do that? Had she healed her own leg? That wasn’t possible. Gale but not Gale said that she couldn’t do that yet. Well, not that she knew anyway. Running the back of her hand against her thigh she twitched in feeling the pain on her face. Something was different about her leg. There seemed to be an outside source applied to it. No medicine she knew could heal a third degree would that quickly. Baffled, Fhei looked around only to find what she had fallen asleep to. This world was strange but it didn’t seem to be a place she couldn’t trust. Now only if she could stop her chest from pounding. It was as if someone was digging into her bone structure.
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