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“Wow! I never knew that there are actually people who can send Blue fire. Just imagine!” Cher kept jabbering as usual after our training session and this time it was a bit more because now we know about most of the Mind’s Eye powers and what they are called.
“Prior Demnar…. Prior Demnar…. You don’t mind me calling you by full name, do you?” Cher asked me sheepishly. That’s it! She knew how much I didn’t like being called like that.
“One more time and I’ll assure you that I won’t help you with your Trumpet!” Cher was selected to our school brass band and her first instrument was a trumpet and she was lousy at playing it.
“Okay, Okay… Listen, now that we know about what we are called, I think we should have nick names or something like that. It’s cool right? I mean everyone usually has a nick name. If I can’t call you Prior Demnar, can I call you P.D.? It’s ugly but simple… What do you say?” Cher was making fun of me but that’s normal for her. If she’s not laughing then there is some serious problem. Apart from our Mind’s Eye training sessions, my life at White Lotus could not have been any different. We had term tests and sports and all types of extracurricular activities. Most important of all, people stopped talking about me eventually. I became part of them.
Our training sessions were so full of excitement because everything we experienced there was totally new. We were divided into groups according to our powers. Older students and other teachers helped us in training under the guidance of Ms. Cleanor. I usually had extra lessons than other girls. I was to study about Mind’s Eyes in the past and their powers. In each generation, there are at least two or three new powers. So it was a bit of a tough task for me as I was not a studying by heart person. Ms. Cleanor trained me personally. Because my powers are still unknown, Ms. Cleanor put me to practice with other groups. I was first assigned to the Readers’ group. Beth from 11th standard and Mrs. Kendall were in charge of that group.
Luckily Cher was there so I was not alone. But there was one problem. Everyone else already knew about their powers and most of them have started using them before. It’s like you get to know the alphabet at home and at school you learn to make words out of it. My problem was I didn’t even know the alphabet. So the teachers had to come up with something to help me. They called it “ice breaking” and Ms. Cleanor came up with a simple theory. It was to force myself to release my powers by a conceptual mind. I had visualized myself in a situation where I was in grave danger. Danger was the key because according to Ms. Cleanor, when we feel danger, it releases hormones that increase brain activity. And using the help of a Millusionist, I was shown a situation where I was left no other option than reading a mind. It was not effective first. After three times in a row, Ms. Cleanor got a bit angry because I was not trying hard and that panicked Mennon, the millusionist who helped me. And that did the trick. I was able to read her mind just like reading a book. But it was a real pain for me and I collapsed unconscious within seconds. That was my first experience as a reader.
Our training sessions mostly included meditation and concentration. Ms. Cleanor reckoned that might have opened the closed windows in my mind. She turned out to be right because all of us were improving and so did I. But opening windows in my mind was quite accidental. We have a small pond near the Laboratories in White Lotus. One day when I, Cher, Yaarah and several others were watching the Gold fish in action we fed them with bread and all the fish were gathered around Norm who was definitely using her ability to bond with animals. That was not fair. I so badly wanted to stop that and the next this I knew was that I was emitting a blue fire ball towards Norm and she let go of the fish at once. I was so terrified that once again I collapsed unconscious.
“Breaking the ice” or releasing my powers weakens my body temporarily. Ms. Cleanor said I was not strong enough and she assigned me a special diet to follow for the next six months plus I was once again the reason to tear Cher into bits of laughter because of that.
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