Someone's Moving In

Nia had experienced another vision last night. Makara had been very helpful in being with her through the whole ordeal. She was glad that he was dead and didn't sleep so she never had to feel bad about disturbing him when a vision hit. At this point she didn't even scream anymore. Just curled up in a ball on his lap until everything was over.

Nia's vision was the usual and she didn't want to talk about it. She didn't know how to talk about it. Occasionally she had seen things that related to Manta Carlos but...overall her visions just left her feeling scared and confused and overwhelmed.

She lay in her bed, having just finished a bowl of soup that Makara had made for her when she heard a bit of commotion outside her door. Nia's room was a single next to a double. A double that remained unfilled for her time at the Academy.

She felt a rock drop in her stomach and she knew something was about to happen.

Her anxiety spiked as more noises abounded. It sounded like people talking and things being moved in...she didn't move from her bed for a solid hour until pretty much all of the sounds had died down. She didn't know what to do. She was scared. Her arms were shaking slightly and her breathing had been off this whole time. If she hadn't just had a vision last night she would have broken her bracelet and Makara would have appeared to help her through everything. But she had used her bracelet and wouldn't be getting a new one for a couple days.

Guess she had to do the brave thing. After another ten minutes of pep talk, Nia finally got herself out of the bed and moving towards the door. She opened the door and peered into the hall.

She could see the door for the other room across the hall from her. It was open. She could see some bags and boxes and things...things that someone owned. That was what that noise was! Someone was moving in! She looked around trying to spot her new hallmate or roommate but she didn't see anyone initially. She stepped further out of her room and called out in her small, timid, childlike voice.

"H-hello?"


@Kaya and Gang

Creation....the word made Nia's body shiver. It implied bringing things into life. That concept terrified her. She couldn't put a finger on why but it did.

Somehow that was what she was though wasn't it? Some kind of creation. A shiver ran down her spine and then a woman with the most fantastically colored hair stepped forth.

Nia's breathing stopped and her shaking stopped. She just...stood. And stared.

The girl was small and so was the one down the hall from her. The two were actually the exact same height. Nia took a few steps closer, her usually visibly tense and uncomfortable frame, suddenly relaxing into something much softer.

"I'm Nia... I'm assuming your moving in?"

Her question was practical. She appeared much younger than the other girl, yet some how she seemed almost just as mature. There was a strange feeling in the air. Definitely nothing Nia had experienced in her year and a half of memories in current time standards. Current to say the least...this way of life did not accommodate for her visions impact on her experience of time and events.

"I'm...uh.." Suddenly the anxiety returned and she pulled into herself, the child-likeness rushing back to her features. "I don't know anything about twins but we look...similar I guess. You're like Makara..I can see into your eyes."

Makara was similar in stature to Nia. It was a definite reason she had become so comfortable around him.

What did she mean by False Twin? That part was very confusing and a bit terrifying to Nia. She tried not to shake but she could feel her hands starting to tremble already.

"Nice to meet you Cerra.." She replied timidly as she reached to shake the girls hand.

Nia would never have guessed, and was not prepared in the least, for what happened next. As their hands touched Nia felt it begin but very different than usual. Normally her visions were slow to begin but this one...this one jumped right to the point.

There was no build of of ringing in her ears and pressure building in her head. Instead, it was straight to the vision. Not that it was much of a vision. It was just a glimpse of...well Nia couldn't really tell of what. It seemed to be of the girl standing across from her but what she was doing was so unclear and where she was was even more vague. The weird thing was right before the vision ended, Nia thought she saw herself.

She gasped, pulling her hand away, stumbling backwards until she hit the wall behind her. She panted, her shoulders starting twitch and her hands shaking even worse than before. She didn't know what to say or do. She just...stared and shook.

It took Nia a moment to find her breath again and be able to respond to her new roommate. She knew this island and school held many strange things. Her readings had taught her that anything could happen in this place, but she had doubted until that moment that anything could happen to her.

She stared for a moment as anything said something to her about her creation...her waste of color and life.

"I...I'm sorry...I don't understand what you are saying to me.."

Nia couldn't understand any of this. The woman's words or the vision she just had...assuming it was a vision. She had never had one without pain nor one where she had seen herself.

More full of life? Nia didn't know how to respond to that. She supposed it could be true. It was hard to feel fully alive and colorful when you were still mentally and memorially so young. She didn't feel well developed and capable. Maybe there was a time in her previous life when that had been a thing.

Which was strange..because here was standing a colorful version of herself. She felt like somehow she was looking into a mirror to some other world. She had a weird deja vu of her vision before her legs gave out and she crumbled to the floor.

Usually at this point she would have broken her bracelet and Makara would have been there to help her through all this but she had already used that option and something told her Makara wouldn't be back for quite some time. She felt a bit trapped. Maybe Aedan would show up. Maybe something that made sense would happen.

"I...I don't know what was before. Can you..can you read me?" Maybe this, as terrifying as it was, could be a good thing. Maybe this Cerra person with Creation speaking to her could finally tell Nia something useful about who she was. And not just that she was sick and her brain was all kinds of a mess. That didn't tell her who she was..just what had happened to her.