Chapter 17: Animus

Honestly, it's sounding like the outdoors of Aerynon is pretty, if strange looking, but the oppressed citizenry generally don't get to live there. What a hell of a life!

Sam follows Caelum the elder, telling him, "I think you have the wrong girl. That's all I'm saying."

Caelum, being even less verbose than many of the other people in Aerynon, says, "Animus."

That explains a lot. It's a greeting? You greet people by saying animus?

Yeah, that's what I'd been thinking. Sam probably really wishes she hadn't left New Orleans for this impoverished, oppressed, fantasy hellhole.

Caelum walks over to lake and does some fancy magic that makes a stormy sky appear above the water, and tells Sam that she has the potential to clear the clouds away with her power.

Sam protests that she's just a little kid, but the wise old caveman says that she's "a little girl with the rarest of all gifts."

Sam continues to protest, and Caelum tells her to close her eyes. She does, and he balls her hands up into fists, and tells her to imagine herself holding sand and a rock.

Nothing happens. They try again, and a nearby rock starts to vibrate, but it still doesn't teleport into her hand like the blanket earlier in the story when she was in the hospital.

I guess Sam wanted that blanket more than she wants this rock and sand. Who knew?

Sam tells Caelum that he's wasting his time, since she really isn't the one, and Caelum decides to mess with her by saying yeah, maybe she really isn't The One.

Suddenly life decides to force Sam's hand.

I guess Sam just wanted the blanket and that baby far more than she wanted some rocks and sand. :P

Comments

Medinoc Since: Dec, 1969

Feb 12th 2016 at 4:02:42 AM

Well this chapter sounds mostly... normal.