Chapter 3: Chapter 3 – Gonna Hurt

 

"Tent burned!  Cost silver!  Not happy!"  Gei loaded up her backpack, grumbled about how her tent was charred in the middle of the ground sheet, but the top was intact as it was blown off.  She started to walk towards her target area. After a dozen or so steps, she hopped in excitement as she moved so quickly.  She watched the ground pass under her feet a lot faster than she expected.

"Beast balls!" She exclaimed. Gei had just hopped, flew into the air over a dozen feet, and stumbled when she landed.

"What happen?" She whispered. She looked at her target and started to jog towards the stone plateau. What she felt like should have been a simple jog, at the amount of strength she once possessed, made her run at such a high speed, she felt the wind fly by her face.

"REALLY?!" She cried out.  "Ena push?"  She was so shocked about her speed as she had never saw anyone move that fast, that it felt like the goddess was pushing her along.  She had to consciously slow herself down, but it she was still at a full out human sprint.  It still felt like she only put the effort of a normal walk.

"Why so hard?  Gei walk!  Why feel run fast?!"  She said.  She kept adjusting her effort so that she ran at more normal speeds, and gradually became used to her increased ability.  When she wanted to, she could zip along like a horse off its reins.

"Wow.  So tall."  Gei said in awe.  Forty feet above her head, the surface of the plateau now towered. It was an odd landmark within the wasteland, and many travelers used it to mark their journey. The plateau was several hundred feet wide at the narrowest point, forty feet tall at its lowest, and a few thousand feet in length.

"How get up?" She whispered. "Jump up?" That plateau felt like it was was placed on top of the stone, like a large layer. Gei looked up and wondered if she could jump that high.

"Maybe." She laid her backpack to the side, and like someone unsure of how much power she should put in, she tried a stronger hop.

"Huh?" Gei watched the stone fly passed her face until she actually went up and over the plateau. She watched it pass beneath her, and when she fell back down, she paled in fear.

"Gonna hurt."

 

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"Ow." Gei said as she stood up and rubbed her bottom. She tilted her head.

"Just fell. Only bump. Normal?" She asked herself. She looked over at a large stone, walked over, and put her hand on it. She pushed the stone and watched it slide easily across the ground.

"Not normal. Guard punch stone. Hurt fist." She put her hands on her hips, and felt the edges of her hips far too easily. She growled at the stone and punched it. The stone shattered, but her fist did not get damaged, nor did her skin hurt.

"Strong, right?" She whispered. She looked up at the plateau, and made a decision. "Up there, safe. No one jump high like me." She nodded and looked at the town. She bared her teeth.

"Town wall. Clan not jump over." Gei walked back, and picked up her backpack.

One normal hop took her up quite high, but only about half way. A second one took her all the way up, and a bit over the top surface. Once she landed, Gei smiled. She looked around the top, then out to the west. The smile that spread on her lips was wide, and happy.

"Sea. Water. Salt." She nodded, and grinned. "Make salt. Sell Lise. Sell Sala. New trench."

 

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"Big bowl. Small bowl. Small bowl. Dirty water. Water. Slime." Gei made three basins by consciously absorbing the earth element in the stone, but she was unaware of what exactly she was really doing.

Since no one in the clan bothered to teach her, she didn't know that it was earth element. She knew it was brown energy, and once removed, the rest turned into dust.

With a reasonably clear picture in her mind, Gei sat on the stone, and absorbed the energy all around her, five feet in all directions. It became a round bowl as that was the limit of her influence. She moved to another area, and with a barrier between the second basin, the third, and the first, she absorbed that energy to make two smaller bowls in the stone.

"Make ditch. How?" She pursed her lips. She walked to the large basin, faced the sea, and began to walk. She sucked up the energy and realized that it was pulled in through her feet, and made a weird shallow ditch as she walked. Since her speed wasn't consistent, the shape was quite irregular.

"Ugh, shape weird. Wrong." She said, and walked back to the front. She bent over and closed her eyes.

"Dig?" She had to dig a lot in the gardens in the clan. Gei pictured a shovel.

"Worked?" She watched it happen within her mind, and opened her eyes. She nodded with a smile. "Work. Good." She moved ahead at a quick pace now that she could picture what was going on. She scooped out the energy with each step and made the trench round as she walked.

After two hours, she had what she needed. She moved a plug of stone from the end of her trench at the coast. Cold sea water rushed into her trench, and made her smile.

Gei now had a source of sea water that she could easily turn into salt to sell, which would also give her water to use. This trench would be considered a treasure to other people in Stormwall. Salt was so expensive, and the wasteland so hot, they could build pools to evaporate the water, and leave behind the salt. They could easily bag it up, and it would be much cleaner than what the salt dealer sold the regular folks in the town.

However, the sea was such a dangerous place, there were no ships that sailed, boats that traveled, or fisherman that threw in a line.

This trench was a treasure, but it was also something that tapped into a place long considered a nightmare. If anyone tried to take it away from her, they would be considered first class fools.

Even if the residents of Stormwall had the ability to take it away, the sea would take it back.

 

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Venn watched Gei walk out of the wasteland, while she carried a pot in one hand. They didn't stop her at the gate, as they had their orders.

No one is allowed to enter the wasteland unless they came from the wasteland. That order was handed to them early last night.

Gei had not walked out onto the wasteland from their gate, and had come out from there. That either meant she entered the wasteland without a problem from a different gate, or she was already out there last night.

"Yep. Not saying a thing." Drom said quietly.

"I hear ya." Venn said just as quietly. Drom smirked.

"Sure ya do."

 

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