"I know you said that we should leave behind the fairies and not return to Caelum, but couldn't you have been a bit more specific in your directions?"
A soft girlish voice came from the figure, and her pointed ears might had easily caused one to mistake her for an elven child. Once more she paused as she stepped past another tree when she could finally hear the ethereal voice call out to her again. "Well, since you were such a good girl, I'll reward you by telling your name~ You were Yu Ming." The child frowned at the words, inquiring back. "Were? What do you mean with that?"
To which the ethereal voice offered no answer. Yu went silent, and after a moment muttered softly. "And now you deign to provide me the silent treatment... First getting me lost by telling me we should hop off the ferry here, and now you don't even finish our conversation..."
Pouting softly she lowered a gaze at her hand and stretched it lightly in front of her. "And what is wrong with me? Ever since we got here I can't help but notice the flow of mana around me is unstable. Is it merely this island? Or am I the one to blame..."
Once more silence, after which she raised both hands to her head and groaned softly. "Can't I have at least a bit of normality in my life? This is a forest! Where are the birds, the squirrels, the bunnies? Instead, the quietness is almost eerie... What is going to be next? A giant dragon falling out of the sky? A demon lord coming to claim my head because he mistook me for the mage of a hero's party? Yeah right, these type of encounters only happen in stories..."
Not to mention what party would even want a mage like her in their group? Her only redeeming quality was to disrupt the flow of mana and nullify the magic spells others could cast. If they desired to see flowing rivers of ice, rains of fireballs and similar fancy tricks then she wasn't the mage for it!
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