What.
The.
Fuck.
Am I dreaming?
I look around me. At the street, filled with people. Passing me by, passing around me as if I was moses parting the sea.
What the fuck?
Is this a joke?
What the fuck?
I stare around me. At another woman, arguing with one of her friends without minding me. "That's not true"
Her friend retorts fast "it is"
She shakes her head, and lean forward, before whispering in her ears.
"No...don't tell anyone I told you but.." She looks around, searching for anyone that could spy on her, she finds none, she doesn't even fin-!
Her eyes snap at me. A weird kid. There's almost no kid around, but this kid, me, is extra weird.
He's there. In the middle of the street, spreading his arms on his side as if he was waiting for a hug.
She gives me a weird confused frown, pull her friend away and whisper her secret a good distance away
WHAT!?
She DEFINETLY just saw me.
And I turn my head on the right to see a man, a man with an umbrella above his head, he leaves a shop. With one hand holding a bag at his side. The shop is just beside me, and when he comes out. He almost slams into me, but a weird step, his own step, pushes him on his left and away from me.
AND THIS GUY DIDN'T SAW ME!
Okay.
What the fuck is happening?
Okay, okay, focus, think. What the fuck is happening?
I look around for three good seconds, before knowing what is happening. Something that's pretty obvious but I just can't believe.
Fuck...am I really doing magic right now?
Really?
Am I doing magic? A gigantic fucking smile spread on my face but I don't react yet, instead. I focus inside myself.
I feel the flow, the flow I've been doing my best to focus on, to keep up my training on even while walking around and going to the library
I feel the flow.
And then.
Right there.
In the middle of a wide street, filled with more people that I usually see in a single street in this dingy village, I release the flow.
And a lot happens.
A lot.
There were two people around me, in my direct vicinity.
Two women. One behind me, coming from my left, and who would have been redirected away from my path like usual. Like how I was spreading the sea of people a second ago.
And there was another girl, on my right, who would have fell into the same trap.
The second I release the flow. I see the woman in front of me give me a glance, a frown appears on her face.
And she whispers a "fucking kids" under her breath before stepping away from me.
The girl behind me gives me a glance, but go on with her day. Passing me.
I pull my arms back down, and start walking too.
And if before, I was alone. Like some kind of protagonist in a movie, in the middle of the street, everyone avoiding me like the plague.
Now I get swallowed by the crowd.
Well, kinda, there isn't enough people for it to be a crowd.
But the usual human social instinct gets to work, and everyone aligns themselves to be polite in society, and I do the same.
Looking around, I see an old man. The second he sees me, he gives me a baaaaad look, frowning and all.
AH! THIS IS THE LOOK I'M ACCUSTOMED TOO!
I keep walking forward, and I try to walk even faster. To try and find some of the people that passed me earlier and didn't notice me.
Looking at them from afar. Nothing...wrong, seems to be happening with them?
They don't seem scared, confused, or anything. No, they're just doing their shopping, living alone, do their stuff.
I see another grandma, and like most grandmas around. She give me a bad look.
The second she does. I focus, and goes in the flow again.
She doesn't stop staring at me, nobody does.
I keep walking, but people still see me.
What?
Why isn't it working anymore?
I keep walking, but there's no spread of people anymore, everyone knows where I am and that's it.
What the-!
Before I can complain again, the same phenomenon happens again.
Slowly, I inch toward the middle of the street
And here am I. Spreading the sea of people again
Oh.
Okay.
A small laugh escapes me. And two people manages to notice me.
The rest don't.
I HAVE MAGIC! I'M DOING MAGIC! How am I doing that?
I have no idea!
HOLY SHIT I'M THE BEST NINJA EVER! I CAN....
I jump up, and nobody notices.
I start waving my arms around and nobody NOTICES!
I'M THE BEST FUCKING NINJA!
I just need to make sure nobody can hear me, and I'm golden.
Well...golden.
I remember the girl that was telling her secret.
And as I turn around and practice my new superpower, my mind directly think about the benefits.
...I can spy on people with that. Well, don't really care. I don't want to spy on anyone right now.
...well I don't want to spy on anyone.
Apart from my grandfather, the people in the academy, any place where they talk about the war, so the walls, and the drinking place close to my house.
...but apart from that?
I don't want to spy on anyone.
I leave toward the library again, keeping a big devious smile nobody can see on my face.
You know? I would take the superspeed of my grandfather, but as a child who can't punch any man older than eight years old and hurt them?
I'll take invisibility any day of the week.
Well, invisibility. Am I even invisible? How does this even work?
The girl managed to see me earlier. When she was searching for people around her, she found me.
So do I need to like...sneak into a mass?
Anyone that searches for me can find me? And anyone that doesn't can't?
Holy shit! That's why my mother didn't see me!
Daaaaaamn, that's crazy...wait.
I lift a hand and wave it around again. Nobody sees, but that's weird.
I did that in front of Hatomo and that's how he saw me. And now the people around me can't see me?
I stop in the middle of the street, arm crossed. Thinking about whatever I stumbled upon.
That sounds reaaaaallly useful, I won't lie.
But I still don't know how I'm doing, what I'm doing...apart from controlling the flow, and...and nothing else really.
I have no idea what I'm doing.
...I really need to get some info.
I look at my left.
The turn I need to take to get to the library.
Well, let's see what she have.