Eva walked down the Orchidia streets, a grey t shirt with a black cardigan and tights as her casual outfit for the day. She was walking back to the hotel after another day of working as a Rune Knight. She had spent that day in the office writing up reports and all those things as opposed to the field work that she normally opted for. Eva could tell that people around her were surprised to see her working in the office all day, something that they had never seen her do. Even the stupid lieutenant there was giving her worried glances. It seemed that he was getting a transfer after the last anklebiters problem, making up room for a new lieutenant that she guessed will be Alice in the near future.

She was about to make her last turn when she felt someone grab her hand from behind and pull her back. Eva’s initial reaction was to swing her legs back and kick him hard on the ribs but pulled back immediately when she noticed that it was the same detective, or well, pretend detective she had helped out a few days ago. Dex Miller, wasn’t it? “Dex?” She asked, looking at the man who was panting and twitching heavily down on the ground, his hand still wrapped around Eva’s in a tight grasp. It almost felt as if he was truly scared about something.

“Dex, what is it?” she asked, slight irritation creeping up her veins as she was just about to go home and call it a day. The man looked up with frightened eyes. “I found something,” his fear now was mixed in with a look of triumph. Eva wanted to think he was on a wild goose chase again but calmed down enough to listen to him go on and on about some sphere in the middle of a pond, or a river, but he kept saying that it made him happy and sad all at once and that it was the culprit to his latest case, at which point Eva really rolled her eyes. She opened her mouth to tell him that he should go home and sleep but stopped when he saw the seriously frightnened state he was in. Probalby because she walked around with him for a whole day, Eva was sure that this man had some truths to his ramblings.

With resolve, Eva asked him to lead her to the river he saw this blue ball in and as they started walking, Dex kept explaining to her about the strange sensations the big blue ball bought her. He looked excited, frightened, and curious all at the same time which was now starting worry Eva a little. She didn’t want to get into anything dangerous without her magic, especially when she had to means to defend herself except with her physical capabilities which she wasn’t all too trained in. She realized that she had been relying on her magic far too heavily now.

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Eva stood still as her eyes took in the glowing, spinning form of the blue ball, her eyes narrowing in on the mysterious aura it gave away. She had to be honest that Eva wasn’t completely sold when Dex had come to her with the story but seeing it for real had her truly focused on it now. It was a strange ball that floated a meter above the water and for some reason, every second that spend with her eyes trained on it, Eva had been taking slow steps towards it along with a Dex that had completely gone quiet now.

‘I want to touch it,’ something at the back of her head urged Eva to lift her hand up and place a finger over the warm light of the ball. For a moment, it felt like sent an electric shock over to Eva’s head, kicking her back into a dark hole. She kept falling into it until something caught her mid fall, and now she was suddenly floating over nothing. “Eva,” she heard the voice of a kind woman from behind and looked back, her eyes widening as she recognized the figure that now stood in front of her, “Mother?” she whispered as the figure beckoned Eva with her hands. She wanted to go to her, to move but just as she reached over, she felt something roughly push her back and she was now back at the river, on the ground with her body aching all over. She looked over to the still spinning ball and tried to get back up on her feet when she noticed Dex passed out a little next to her.

Looking between the mysterious ball and a Dex that looked like he took heavy damage, Eva grunted as she lifted the man up with whatever strength she had left. Eva dragged Dex back to the town where at a point, almost ready to apss out herself, she found someone named Decol. Eva didn’t ask much nor was she in the position to. Once they got back at the hotel, Eva finally made an acquaintance with the man. She heard that he was an inspector but before she could ask more, Dex was already up. He looked like he was trying to adjust to the place for a while but told Decol to get her purse and pay Eva for the trouble she went through. As Eva took it and tured around, her memories went back to what the blue orb had showed her. Surely, she had to do something about it. Why did it show Eva her mother back in that river? Why had she seemed like she wanted to tell Eva something? Why was it happening just a few days before she decided to get back to Era? She made sure to give Decol her contact information before dragging herself back to the hotel. First, she would take a long nap and then tomorrow, she was going to investigate that blue sphere as well.

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