My arms are slackened and heavy with fatigue after all the combat training I've done today. More recruits have been sent to Meridian off late, and being one of the trainers is starting to be a bit more than I can chew. Even worse, telepathy training with Reika is literally draining the life force out of me. I honestly don't know how she handles having so many abilities at once. And that right there is the reason she's currently the most powerful being in the universe, even without being a sage.
Or maybe the sage we don't know is using chaos magic is. The thought occurs in my brain and I'm alert again. I can't rest knowing there's someone out there who has an unlimited unfair advantage against everyone, let alone being a sage. With new profound energy I don't know emerged from where, I get off the bed and walk to the other end of my room, on the wall just next to the bathroom. I plant my hand on the wall and the runes pick up my fingerprints and the magic investigation board I created emerges from the wall.
Every thought, idea, suspicions and leads I've had since Reika showed up with amnesia after her mother's death has been put down on this board. Does she know about it, not yet. Only because I like to have my own space to think about it privately.
Her full name : Xenna Aide DeRue
Age: 24
A death curse was put on her by the sages as punishment for her murdering her mother. But the death curse is only set to work if she is actually guilty of the crime she's being charged off, which is why she's not dead, but suffered great amnesia for a whole year. She proceeds to then get her memories back after I get intimate with her.... a trauma response.... My thoughts halt for a moment only because I find it very disturbing to think about it even though she's put it in her past. Anyway, afterwards she then pieces together that I was not supposed to have been able eavesdrop on them at all since the runes take care of that so we have rune tampering. And that only a sage would be able to do that so perfectly.
Hmmm, then after Warden accessed Jen's memories, we discover that one of the sages was practicing chaos magic. So we also have magical malpractice. Then the death of vatics because they have precognition. So we also have premeditated murder. And the cherry on top is that they had sent agents before to restore Reika's memory forcefully. Hmmmm, but how sure can I be of that, so I note that down as potential memory tampering. Mostly because if Jen's murder was planned and they needed to pin it on Reika, they also planned to execute her for it, so potential premeditated murder on her as well.
I pace around for a few seconds as I think about it a little more. But why did they need to tamper the runes to let anyone eavesdrop? So that anyone passing by could be able to hear the commotion going on? Reika was definitely being set up. But then that also meant that they knew Jen and Reika were going to have that confrontation. And Jen hadn't talked to Reika in years so obviously Jen must have told someone about this. Or was it someone else with precognition who was able to see that coming. So maybe it's either one of Jen's friends who told a sage about it. Or Jen herself told a sage about it.
Which wouldn't make sense because if Jen knew one of them was using Chaos magic, she definitely wouldn't tell one of the sages she was going to talk to one of the other existing Psythelians. So it's defo either a friend or a vatic. What if Jen was going to warn her about the Chaos users but then I happened? She did say she was going to die in six months so... something big was supposed to happen in six months probably for her to die..... All this thinking and writing on the board has me going into a frenzy of crazy conspiracy theories.
With a sigh of exhaustion, I place my hand back on the wall and lock the board into place back on the wall. I head for the bathroom as I strip off my clothes. The warm water droplets kiss my skin welcomingly and I revel in the feeling after running on fumes all day. My mind wanders off to Reika as I lather my hair and body with soap. She's transitioned so well at Meridian. One can clearly tell the difference between Xenna and the Reika that I've known. She's more strict, guarded and rarely displays affection publicly. And that applies to everyone she interacts with, which doesn't surprise me at all. She did have the same cutthroat reputation before I met her.
And then I met her, but she was different. She laughed, partied, played and she had the same crazy intuition and she was openly empathetic and still fire at combat skills. And she's still the same now, difference just being only I get to see that. Maybe I'm messed up because I like it that way, because I'm selfish and I love the fact that I'm the ONLY one who gets to experience her like that. Even better because she's the only one who get's to see me like this, only supplicating for her. The only one who gets to see me lose control is her and I'll be lying if I say that I don't absolutely love that.
As if just on cue, I hear the door to my living area open and I a smile appears on my face. Assuming its her, I reach out with my ability to channel her telepathy and let her know that I'm in the bathroom except I don't find any abilities to channel. Its like hitting a wall. Except this wall is a bit softer, like a fluffy cushion of moss. My heart rate picks up instantly and I switch off the damn shower and take my towel from the rack with the speed of a vampire. There's only one person who responds like that when I try to channel them.
I calm myself down before walking out of the bathroom and sure enough I find him pacing around my living quarters. He's fully dressed up in his leathers, all weapons strapped in as always. What else was I to expect from him anyways, he's always prepared.
"Hello son." He says curtly as I walk toward him.