"||… Mmmhhh…. Dark all around, I can't open my eyes, there is a small drum sound very near... Oh, it's a heartbeat?... It's so cosy in here...||"
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"||… How much time did I sleep? Oh, I can hear some voices. A woman singing now? And, what, a guitar is playing? Such a gentle voice…||"
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"||… I really need to stay awake. There's a male voice now, and a sound of patting near? Is that guy patting my mother's belly to call me? Stop with the racket, I am sleeping here! There, two kicks. You pat my mother, I kick your hand! Argh! Now it's even worse, both of them are talking. It seems like mother is jumping! Argh! I am going to throw up! ...||"
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"||… Flow of Magic, was it? Let me see, flow is something that it's moving, maybe like a river? But it's inside me? On mother? In the World out there? Let me see if I can sense my Flow and my mother's Flow… there's something… Oh!… A warm sensation, as if warm heat was coursing through me, through my mother, between my mother and me... sleepy...||"
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"||… Flow inside me… Flow on mother… Flow between my mother and me… Flow between mother and father… Flow between mother and outside…||"
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"||… Flow… Flow… Flow… I have nothing else to do. I wonder when I will be born… Oops, almost lost it… Flow… Flow. …||"
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"||…Hey! Stop that! I was sleeping! Who is slapping me?... Oooohhh! Hello, World! Brrr… so cold! Where was the pushing of the contractions of my mother? I was sleeping the whole time. It seems that I can't see very well. Ah, I know! Newborns cannot see very far. After birth, a baby sees only black and white, with shades of grey. As the months go by, he will slowly develop his colour vision at around four months… I remember reading about this when I was still in middle School. Memory Gift, fully operational! ... ||"
I think I feel asleep again, but I opened my eyes when I heard a familiar voice. "||… Hello, mother! You are pretty! Amazingly pretty! That's my father? Good looking!... What is that? Ooh, feeding time! Great, I am starving!... I can still feel mother's heartbeat… so cosy. …||"
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"||... I wonder how much time has passed. I sleep, eat, I sense my Magic Flow and the Flow of everyone that comes within my reach. I am starting to feel the Flow of things further than some days ago... I still can't see very well in colours, which means I am less than four months old. Oh well, can't do anything about it... I still don't understand what mother and father say. Some words sounded Japanese, but I think I heard a lot of English words as well, and a lot of words in a strange language... in the same sentence? Weird... Flow... Flow... A tree?... Flow... Cow?... Flow... strange small animal... Flow... Flow. ...||"
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Time goes by and I keep on practising. "||... Flow... Flow... father is coming... Yeah right, talk as much as you like, I still don't understand you... Flow going to father's hand... Flow curving faster and faster... What is he doing? Is that a wind whirlpool on his hand? I can see that, you are right in front of me! Here, a smile for you. What, you are throwing that at the toy above my crib? Oh, the toy is moving! Nice... let me see... my Flow, Flow curving faster and faster on my hand... there, you are not the only one to do that. Here, I can also throw this at the toy. Watch and learn!... Oops, I messed up. The toy is turning like a crazy wheel and my father is surprised with his mouth open, screaming. I think he is calling my mother! ...||"
I look around, trying to think of something. "||... I broke the toy, mother is coming, father doesn't stop calling for her, where can I hide? Better if I pretend it was not me... They are talking... mother is surprised, she looks at me, smiles, yells at my father, she is pulling his ear! Nice, mother, show him who's the boss! Father seems desperate. Mmmhhh... I need to help him. Mother is looking at me, she is talking... sorry, can't understand you, but I can feel her Flow of Magic... concentrating on her hand... Flow rolling... is that a small water ball? Okay, father, I will help you... My Flow, Flow rolling faster and faster on my hand... there, a small water ball for you! ...||"
"||... Dad is rubbing his ear, talking with mum, mother is looking at me, she can't stop smiling, my father is grabbing me! Hey, stop jumping around like that, I am going to throw up! See? I let go of my water ball, right on your face! Shut up, mother is talking! No, sorry, I still can't understand you. But she seems serious. She is making another water ball while speaking, looking at me and nodding her head, like saying that I should not do that. Now the water ball disappeared. Oh, seems like it's father's turn to speak and make another wind whirlpool looking at me and nodding his head, like saying that I should not do that. Okay, I nod my head, also with a very serious face. Ah, they look surprised! Yes, I am very smart, I don't just sleep and eat, I understand more or less what you want to say! ...||"
They stopped talking finally! "||… They are still looking at me with a dumbfounded look on their face… maybe I shouldn't have nodded my head and made such a serious face. I am, what, six months old now? Okay, let me show you… Flow… Flow… water ball on my left hand, wind whirlpool on my right hand. Disperse the Flow, the water and the wind magic disappear. I look at them seriously and nod my head in agreement again. They are still surprised, but they also nod. They are smiling a little. My mother is talking to me… Ooh! I know that song! Father is picking that… sitar instrument? Oh, that's what he was playing every time that mother sang to me! I think it is better if I practise my control of Magic when I am alone. I don't want to scare them again. And I more or less promised that I would not make the water ball and the wind whirlpool again. …||"
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"||… Well, that didn't last long! It's what, six days after I broke my toy with my wind whirlpool? And I have been very careful, never using my Magic when they are awake or there's a visitor in the house. My mother and father are testing me. It seems they are having fun. These two are worse than me! My mother is showing me a water ball on her left hand and a ball of light on her right hand. Father is showing a wind whirlpool on one hand and a fireball on the other hand. It seems mother uses Light and Water Magic and father uses Wind and Fire? I am looking at their hands seriously. Mother disperses her magic. I am sensing her flow. She is speaking… That is Magical chanting? Flow curving… a water ball appears… she keeps the Magic in control… her Flow is changing, the Magical chanting sounds different, Flow concentrating... A ball made of Light appears on the other hand... She keeps the Magic in control... It seems she gathers her Flow of Magic from inside of her, shapes it how she wants, and makes it appear on her hand. Now, father is doing the same thing, but the chanting is different. I don't know why, but it seems that they need to use different chants for different magic. I can't speak yet, so until now, I have been practising my Flow gathering and control with no chanting, I just use my imagination to give form to my magic. I can even create some animal figures with water magic and make them move with wind magic. I am like a Magical puppeteer! ...||"
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"||… Today, something seems off. The rabbit man, I think he is my father's friend, considering that I have been seeing him since I was born. He is looking at me seriously. I never saw him like that, so serious and with both his ears pointed to the sky. He is always goofing around with father, talking and drinking, and always with one of his ears dropped. But today, he is different. Mmmh... my mother is speaking to me. She has dispersed her spell and is pointing to my hands. Okay, you really want me to show this two-metre tall, strong as a wrestler rabbit man I can imitate you? Okay, let me show all of you who's the boss around here! I start by feeling my Flow, my mother, my father, the rabbit man. Since my inside Flow is small, I will use some from you three. Just a little for you not to sense what I am doing... Here, three balls of water, light, fire, and a wind whirlpool! Now, behold my power! Kneel before me! Muahmuahmuah!… Mother, father, and the Rabbit wrestler are looking at me with their mouths open, in complete silence. …||"
"||… Oops, seems like I messed up. They seem to be in shock! Here, a smile for you... no reaction... the rabbit man is approaching me. What a serious face. I can sense his Magic Flow, his chanting is different... I am in trouble? Oh, a ball of rock is forming on his left hand... his Magic Flow is different now, strange, powerful... a new chant... Oh, a dark ball on his right hand! Wait, dark? Pitch dark, completely dark! Now he is dispersing his magic. Mmmmhh... Earth and Dark Magic, really? Oh, he is concentrating his Magic Flow again, the same chant, a rock ball in one hand... the strange Flow is gathering, the different chanting, a dark ball appears on his other hand... What, you are waiting for me? My mother is looking at me with a gentle smile, and she is nodding her head. Okay, don't blame me if you all have a heart attack... I start by gathering my Magic Flow, but I have so little that I am feeling exhausted. If I gather any Flow from them, they will notice. This time, I gather Magic Flow from outside. From the cows, the goats, the trees, from the air... slowly, concentrating... here, a rock ball forming on my left hand... now, again... Flow... concentrating... Here, a dark ball on the other hand, pitch black, looks like a Dark Hole! Scary! Mother, father, and the Rabbit wrestler are in complete silence. Mother has one hand on her head and she's wobbling! …||"
"||… Oops, mother fainted... father is jumping around and laughing like crazy, the rabbit wrestler is nodding at me and smiling... And with this, Magical Gift, fully functioning! Hey, no one is going to help my mother? ...||"