My Very First Room [Makara]

Nia sat in silence. Her eyes scanned over the room briefly but then quickly returned to staring at her hands. Everything had just been one new thing after another and sometimes it was all she could do to keep herself from going crazy from it all. It probably didn't seem like she was going through much to someone else but when your an amnesiac with as many undiagnosed mental disorders as Nia, life felt pretty damn complicated.

When Makara finally broke the silence, Nia's eyes shot up to look at him, her body jolting a little bit from the sock of the suddenly broken quite. After he finished his question her eyes quickly returned to her hands though. She stared at them for a moment, her brow furrowing in thought.

"I..uh..I don't know--" She stuttered as brought her hands up to her face, as if embarrassed by her lack of knowledge. "I mean I...well what..." Her hands moved to her hair and began to fiddle with it nervously as her eyes cautiously looked up at Makara again, "What is a family name?"

If he had asked what her last name was, she would have just simply told him that she did not have one or that she could not remember what it was. However, she had never heard the term 'family name' before and new things that she did not know made Nia extremely nervous; hence the panicked response to the man's simple question.

Nia listened to the man's explanation of 'family name' and her eyes lit up a bit as she realized what he meant. She gave a bashful little smile, feeling silly for not realizing what he had meant before. She had been asked this question a few times already so at least now that she knew what she meant she could easily answer it.

"Oh!" She said the relief clear in her voice, "I don't have one of those." She said simply, as if that answer were completely reasonable. To Nia it was; to anyone else, probably not.

If his initial question had confused the poor girl, this next one completely baffled her. Another world? Another species? Nia racked her brain but couldn't come up with anything on either of these subjects. She was aware that they were currently on the planet earth and that humans were the primary species on this planet. She was also fairly certain she was one of them. That was until this moment. She hadn't come across any other humans who also saw the future like she did.

Nia didn't want to appear stupid, as Makara had asked the question in such a nonchalant manner that she suppose she was just ignorant on the subject. After all, this school and island were suppose to be for people who were different but she had never thought that being different meant coming from another world or another species.

"Uh... Well, I don't know anything about my family so I can't really answer your question properly." Nia said after a moment of thought. It seemed like the best thing to say, since it was true. She suppose that maybe she could have come from a different world or species and just not have known.

Nia felt like maybe she needed to make her response more clear though, since Makara had done a lot of follow up questions since his initial one, "But uh, I don't know of my family so the only name I go by is Nia." She managed to stutter out hurriedly, hoping this answer was better suited for what the man needed or wanted to know.

Nia was glad that her answer seemed to satisfy Makara. Somehow she felt a little upset that she didn't know her family name. From the way that Makara had asked, seeming so interested, it seemed like it was a fairly important and common thing. She sort of wished she had one. Maybe she could pick one for herself. Were you allowed to do that? She would have to find out later.

"I stayed with nuns for a couple weeks at an orphanage." Nia said with a slight sigh. She really hadn't liked it there with nuns and they hadn't seemed to like her. She just hoped that Starlight Academy would be more welcoming than her previous experience. So far it was going pretty well, but she also hadn't had a vision since arriving.

The small girl had known that the school was for people who were different, and she knew she was different because one, she didn't know who she was, and two, she experienced things that had led the nuns to believe she was possessed by demons. She had honestly started to believe them until the letter from Starlight arrived.

Based on Makara's question, she figured he didn't really mean that her amnesia was her "special skill" so she supposed he was talking about the second thing. "Well... I don't know if you could define it as a skill." Skills were something people had control over. Nia had about as much control over her visions as a meteorologist had on the weather. "But I experience these uh..espisodes in which I get visions of the future."

The young girl locked her gaze on the ground in front of her, her brow furrowing in concern and embarrassment, "I will warn you, they aren't pleasant things. I will try to keep my screaming down when they occur so I do not disturb you and the others living in this building. It has been almost four days since the last one, so it another should be coming at any time now." It was a lot of talking for how much Nia preferred to be in silence but she felt the need to explain herself to the man and warn him of the baggage that came with her.

Nia wasn't very good at telling people about her amnesia. She was never quite sure how to approach the subject of being without a past. Everyone else she had met knew who they were and where they came from; they had memories. All Nia had was two weeks with nuns who thought she was possessed by demons and visions of the future.

It sort of threw the girl off how casual Makara was about her visions. The nuns and other kids at the orphanage had reacted to them so harshly. Here though, it seemed that she wasn't the only one who was different. It was somehow comforting to know that.

"Wakes me?..." Nia had never been woken by a vision before. They had only occurred when she was awake. "Oh.. I wouldn't want to be a bother. They don't harm me so there is nothing to check on." She was quite for a moment, her eyes narrowing a bit in concern. "Um... But if I should see something important, would you like for me to notify you? Or I can keep what I see to myself if you prefer."