Ilaya slowly opened her eyes as she woke up. Her vision was blurry at first then became focused. She seemed to see something, then rub her eyes and looked again confusedly
'Is it my imagination?'
She saw for a split second that the air had firefly-like lights floating around with different colors. When she blinks, the lights are gone. She couldn't help but laugh mockingly and said
"Haha.. I have amnesia already, and I am having trouble with auditory hallucinations. Did my near death attempt last night give me visual hallucinations as well, as to complete the package?"
She then let go of her pillow and turned herself to face the ceiling. She remembered what happened last night and shivered. Ilaya remembered the suffering that her mind and heart went through, and that pain was enough for her to never dared try testing her body again
But there's one thing Ilaya is sure of
"I.. seemed to have a power"
She stretched her arm towards the ceiling and stared at the back of her hand. Her expression turned complicated. She had to admit that the experiment last night was a successful one, even though the process was anything but pleasant.
But the fact that she managed to hear the sounds inside of an entire five storey building is an ability that is not for humans. If a person can do that, then it's definitely not a normal human. Maybe half human I guess? Or a mutated human?
'Humans don't have an ability like that as far as I'm concerned. I also suspect that I can also enhance my other senses like what I did to my hearing last night'
She believes that her enhanced eyesight will allow her to be far sighted. Like a hawk that's looking for prey far away in the sky. She can probably describe a person's face from a distance of one or more miles while she's at the top of a building
Her enhanced sense of smell will be able to pick up smells and differentiate them. Like a bomb sniffing dog of an armed forces. Though in her case, she had a hunch that as long as she tried to find someone with a scent, as well as that person doesn't leave the city and the time gap is not long. She can smell the thing that the person has a scent on, and she can sniff the person in the city no matter where he/she hides
For her enhanced taste, she can differentiate the tastes of something as long as she had knowledge on them and tasted them before. So to make that power useful, she will need to build a vast library of stock knowledge in her mind alongside her sense of smell. She'll need to taste all kinds of things from foods, herbs, poisons and many more. Only the sky is the limit.
As for her enhanced sense of touch, it's probably the most useful and powerful of them all. This power is unassuming but in the hands of the right person, the power can be used not only externally, but also internally. The power to locate the muscles that's not needed in everyday life can be used strategically. The power can also locate the parts inside the body such as muscle for an explosive burst of strength. If she masters this power, she'll be able to speed up like a cheetah in short bursts and have an explosive burst of strength like a kick of a horse. Of course, her muscle fibers will be torn too, so it had to be used strategically. And that's the only internal application of this power, the external application will have its uses as well like sensing vibrations
For her enhanced sense of hearing, she already has a taste of it. She can hear much farther and identify a sound if she masters it. It seems like an ordinary power but it's a devious one. It can prevent ambushes, be used for spying, and also for chasing. It had so many uses
Ilaya then bring down her arm and covered her eyes and whispered
"I have a superpower, but if it's uncontrollable and harms me every time I use it, isn't it no different from a curse?"
If it is just that, then she will probably be excited to learn it and practice controlling it, but the pain that accompanied it prevents her having any thoughts of trying to control her power. The memory of the pain last night is so vivid that she still shivers from it
'I will always be in pain if I use my power, then, isn't it better if I don't have it. I'd rather have my memories than having this curse, disguised as a power'
She then got up and looked at the time
'7:30am, I'll start searching again after I finish my breakfast. No matter what happened to me last night, I'm not going to let it stop me'
Ilaya then picked up her backpack and took her clothes inside it. She then entered the bathroom and stared at her face in the mirror. Her eyes are red and puffy. She looked away and started to undress, she turned the shower on and let herself be drenched by the water.
She just lets herself be and not move for a while, then, she feels a dark smoldering emotion forming in her heart because of everything that is happening to her, she feels the need to release her emotion. As her body fully get soaked, she accidentally glances at her figure in the mirror for a split second and couldn't help but let out a startled shriek and took a step back
"Kyaaa!"
She didn't dare blink her eyes as she saw herself letting out a faint smokey wisps of red color. The figure in the mirror had the looks of wet seductive beauty, while naked with her wet black hair, blue eyes, white fair skin, supple breast, and the red mist… or aura that's materializing into thin air around her skin
Ilaya then attempts to walk forward towards the mirror to take a closer look, but slips from the wet floor and fell down heavily
Thud!
"Ouch!"
She slips and falls to her butt, she then grimaces and slowly gets up. She rubbed her butt and looked at herself, Ilaya then inspects her body for the red aura, but didn't see anything
She then looked at her image again in the mirror, and all she saw was her reflection looking at her with caution and wariness. The red aura that was oozing out from her had vanished