Chapter 2: Chapter 2 – You Feel That?

 

Gei laid on her tent, her body reddened from the heat, and her lips dry. Her breath came in shallow gasps as it rasped in her throat, and nearly completely dry lungs.

"Wa...." She whispered. Gei turned over onto her belly, her skin felt like it had been sanded off, she felt so tender. Every joint in her body ached, while her bones felt as brittle and hollow as a dried up weed.

"Wa...." She held out her hand towards the only source she could sense. Her hand sunk into the stone and massive amounts of earth element surged into her body.  The only way to get to the water was to dig a ditch and bring it to her, but her lack of skill, as well as direct will to guide it, a shall trench formed.  It was by instinct, and desperate need that it formed.

"Ahhh!" She cried out weakly as earth element surged into her body. It felt like sandpaper on a sunburn, scouring her body from the inside, grinding and sanding her bones as she reached for the water she could sense. At the end of her strength, and resistance to the pain, she felt a cool breeze begin to blow upon her.

"Water?" As she laid on the tent remnants that weren't burned away, the small trench filled up with sea water. Her badly dehydrated body voraciously sucked up the water elements within the seawater.

As the seawater continued to flow into the trench, Gei's elementary channels instinctively, and passively, drained out the water elements until the redness of her skin receded.

"How?" She said softly, as her throat still felt dry. She rolled her eyes and fell as she imagined a basin to collect water in. The earth element rushed into her body again, which caused new and uncomfortable sensations.

Nothing within her was in balance yet, but compared to her life in the clan, this momentary pain was only a flash in the pan.

 

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"Hm?" Gei slowly opened her eyes. It had been over an hour since she passed out again, and the morning sun barely spared her any light with which to see by.

"Water?" Gei looked beside her. "Pool?  Round. Like bowl." She inched forward and dipped her hand into the basin. "Ew. Salty." She crinkled her nose.

"Water, no salt." Gei's eye started to twitch. The water in the pool looked like it flowed up the side of the pool wall, but it left behind a brownish green slime.

"I do? Where do....oh." She saw a new basin form beside her, and the water splashed into it. She grimaced as earth elements flooded her channels again. Everything that just happened was instinctive, and not guided by her will. Gei crawled, and dragged her body over to the new shallow basin.

"Oh! Good water!" Gei dipped her head into the basin and drank well over a gallon of pure fresh water. Her small belly didn't swell, but all redness within her skin disappeared. All the excess water had been absorbed into her body, to replenish the fluids she lost the night before.

Gei had no idea about how close she was to death due to a lack of water. After she rested for half an hour, Gei rose up from her belly.

"Thirsty. Can do again?" Gei looked at the trench, and pictured water rising up from it. A large blob of water flowed into the air, which allowed Gei to see something. The water sparkled with energy.

"Can move. Heh? Sparkle?" She frowned slightly. She pictured the water flowing into the first basin, then only the water, not the salt, flowing into the second. She took a taste and grimaced.

"Why not work?" Gei was not able to separate the salt out the second time. The first time, she did it through her instincts due to thirst. This time, she tried to control it.

"What wrong?" She pursed her lips. "Need water, no salt. What salt?" She looked at the slime again. She frowned.

"Brown, like ground." She closed her eyes and saw brown energy, gray energy, and green energy. "What green?" She reached out for it alone. She opened her eyes.

"Ah, feel nice. Like pillow." She looked at the salt slime and noticed that it looked cleaner.

"Clean?" Gei groaned and rolled her eyes. Things just had to become complicated, but she needed water. More importantly, if she could figure out how to do this at will, she would always have clean fresh water to use.

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This was a matter of life and death, so she had to learn.

 

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"Sun up." Gei lowered her face into the water again, and eagerly slurped up the clean water. She looked at the fresh salt slime, and held out her hand.

"Make water. Make salt." Green life elements flowed into her body, and soothed the parts that had long term damage. Scars faded, but only a little bit as she didn't absorb that much. She sucked out the pure brown elements, and the pure gray elements. All that remained was a grayish brown element.

Gei dipped a moistened finger into what remained.

"Salt. Lise buy?" She now had a way to support herself. She looked around and realized that she was far too exposed.

"Not safe. People. Beasts. Gei not dinner." Gei slowly stood up on shaky legs. She walked to her tent and fished out a piece of jerky.

At one time, this jerky would have been considered her luxury rations. She would only eat a piece a week, while foraging for other wild foods, or scraps to eat.

She now had the ability to make salt. She could make a lot of silver with pure salt. She could easily buy a lot more jerky and eat some every day.

"Can eat now." Her eyes started to glow red as her anger rose. "Had home. No, not home. Prison. Hate prison. Hate guards. Evil people."

The ground started to rumble as her anger grew stronger and stronger. The reason why she was so angry is that all her brothers and sisters were well fed and spoiled. The servants prevented her from eating even the leftovers, or the scraps on the plates.

She no longer considered the Griel clan her family. Her rage spilled out, at her blood relations, and especially at those servants. She had only met a few good people in her life.

Anyone who lived under the clan roof were not one of them.

 

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"You feel that?" Venn asked his friend as he stood guard at the south gate.

"How could I not?" Drom said, and shivered. "There is something angry out there." He looked at Venn. "Should we...you know."

"Yeah, a report would be appropriate. They may not believe weak guards could feel a beasts anger, even if it is focused like that." Venn said quietly and shivered.

"But at least we did our job."

 

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