《In My Head》Chapter 3
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The whispers rang in my ears again as the girl thrashed the boy with her staff.
I love how she is a vampire I wonder how this will play out….
That was the clearest, the others... some wished me a merry holiday? Weird, perhaps they were speaking of my... birth? Creation? I wonder what word is best.
I sat happily as the boy took his beating, it was entertaining at the very least. While that was happening I decided to take a look about the room. There were a bunch of chairs and a large desk at the front, along with diagrams and several bookcases. The word classroom seemed appropriate, though I was sure I'd never seen one before. Closer in was my chalk circle, now devoid of power, and a book, it was very close, just outside the circle, near where the boy had been while he was... I suppose creating me, or at least calling me here.
"Where am I?" That seemed the most important question at the moment. I already knew what I was, and who I was I supposed, so where seemed the best for now.
"What?" The girl turned to look at me, taking a break in her thrashing. "Oh, my apologies, you must be quite confused. You're at the Magical Institute of Evonia. Where did my irksome junior summon you from?"
"I'm unsure, it was all bright, and a bit confusing."
"Supposed to be a conjuration, not a summoning..." The boy wheezed out.
"Well obviously it wasn't!" The girl yelled, then swung her staff at him again, hitting him right in the nose.
"And what's the difference?" I asked sweetly, eager to milk as much information as I could from them.
"Sorry, you must not be a spellcaster? A summoning brings something from somewhere else. A conjuration creates it from the aether. Of course you can only conjure certain things, you can't make people for example, and intelligent beings are unbelievably dangerous and difficult to make properly."
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I nodded along. I might have been born almost literally five minutes ago, but it made sense that making something smart was harder than making something dumb. As well as the fact that a smart thing might not like you, I certainly had no positive feelings towards the boy who made me. I didn't even really care for the girl for that matter, but she was useful, so there was no reason to be rid of her, yet.
"I see. Well, since I'm here now, can I request some clothing? I don't seem to have been summoned with any." I was at this point fairly sure that he had in fact conjured me, but admitting that seemed like an insanely bad idea.
"Oh..." The girl winced in empathetic embarrassment. "I'm so sorry, I nearly forgot." She looked down to where the boy was laying at her feet. "Kale, get your ass up and go get her something to wear!"
As the boy struggled to rise from the ground I could see the red on his face flowing down from where she'd hit him. Blood, the word came to my mind instantly. I wanted it, I wanted it more than anything. My throat burned as he tried to stand, little drops of the precious fluid leaking between his stubby fingers. AAARRRGH HE WAS WASTING IT! No, no, I needed to keep my head. I needed them to separate, and I wanted him right now, not her.
"Wait," I said as he started to turn. "He's a boy, he probably won't have anything for me will he?" I was so parched, if she would just leave...
"Yeah... you're right." The girl grabbed the boy and faced him towards the door, his back to me. I was beginning to really like her. "You," she spat. "You're going to keep an eye on the door and not look at our new friend until I can get her something to wear are you? Because if I come back and find you oogling her I'm gonna cut your balls off and feed them to you on a plate."
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"Shit Shana calm down. It was a mistake, I wouldn't..."
"Cast spells the likes of which you're completely untrained in? I think you would. End up with naked girls trapped in a binding circle? Yeah, you did that too asshole. Now, I'm going to get her some clothes, and after that we're gonna have a conversation with some teachers." Kale gulped in response, it was kinda funny.
Shana turned and left, slamming the door on her way out.
"Man I hope she hurries up. I really gotta pee..."
I smiled from my spot in the circle, rising up to my feet.
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Fantasy World Epsilon 30-10
New Dive Assignment: 0B5 Personnel: Citizen of Gamma G-037-072 Jonathan Kelly World Designation: Epsilon H-037-072-030-010 Classification: Pre-industrial Exotic World, significant outliers in biosphere including atypical flora and fauna. Quarantine protocol in effect pending more data and acclimation testing. Further anomalies include populations of morphologically distinct humanoids, and aberrations in otherwise normative physics laws. Causal chain appears provisionally stable. For the purposes of delaying onset of collapse as well as above mentioned factors, only one subject is cleared to Dive. Initial mandates shall proceed with scouting and surveillance. Further details are classified. Warning: All other qualifying personnel are currently dispatched. Refusal will result in deployment delays and possible unsupervised causal decay. Do you wish to accept this assignment? Note to Readers: This is not MC isolated in a new world. This is new world joins the multiverse. What I'm tentatively coining Subverted Isekai (Formerly I used 'reversed' but, as pointed out, that would be fantasy MC goes to the modern world. Hey, there's idea! Not this book though.). There is plenty of scientific and philosophical stuff; I know that can be a turn off for some. It has a strong bearing on the story, but is mainly covered in the 'Comments & Calculations' section (optional reading of course). If you are looking for an extreme suspension of natural laws with no technical considerations, you will not find it here. Formatting Notes: Audio chatter from characters that are not currently in the scene I format in "inverted commas and italics". Given the layered nature of modern communication, I thought this distinction was best denoted visually in my prose. Critique is welcome. Language Notes Jon is a South African ex-pat. As such he will use some Afrikaans colloquialisms plus a dash of Japanese. Most importantly he says “Ja” meaning “Yes”. Pronounced with a J sound like “yo” and an A sound like “bar”. As in: “Yo, let’s go to the strip bar.” “Ja.” And not the Rastafarian /jya/. Other words: Nee - /niya/ : no Juffrou - /yif-row/ : Miss Lekker - /lacker/ : nice, good, delicious Nooit - /noit/: never The rest is mostly swear words. Indisputably the most useful words in any language and simultaneously holding the least innate meaning. Fok - “fork” without the “r”: fuck Bliksem - /Bluksim/: darn, damn. Also common noun meaning damn person or thing. Donner - “Dorner” without the “r”: originally meaning thunder, can also mean darn or damn. It is often used as a verb meaning: ‘to hit hard’ Kak - /kuck/: shit Voetsek - /foot-sack/: go away
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