My Friend, The Gifted: A Sci-Fantasy (The Universe of Infinite Wonder Book 1) by E.L. Aldryc

Author:E.L. Aldryc [Aldryc, E.L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Infinite Library
Published: 2020-05-22T16:00:00+00:00

When she got used to it, Elodie was relieved to be in a place where everyone was too busy to talk. Her Rising Dawn duties were kept to a minimum, with only one depressing appointment per day at the HQ to monitor her progress and advise her on day-to-day problems. Progress: zero. Problems: see previous segment.

It was almost scary to see how welcome she was. Everyone in the Particle Lab was simply too busy to muster anything but joy at the sight of someone who knew what drawer things were in.

As a gifted trainee, she was only assigned to basic projects that weren't dangerous for an open mind like hers to react with less explored technology. And it was glorious. She was so overwhelmingly busy that she completely forgot her giftedness for the first few hours. She got into the flow of tasks assigned to her, and it even dulled down her paragnostic vision—she looked at items and did not see deeply into them, their stories, their origins, or the people they touched. They were just things and projects. It was like a holiday.

It took a whole day before she noticed the first little twinkle in the corner of her eye, inviting her to look at a piece of rock that was used in a perceived hardness test. And when she looked at it, it was suddenly carved out of a quarry in Romania. Close to Cluj. And Elodie saw herself being pulled again to the hole of knowing all, and she forcefully pulled herself out. And she kept on working. No one noticed.

At lunch, she took her seat next to Soraya, who was glowing. So many crazy things already happened between breakfast and lunch, and Soraya was complaining about Frederich, who refused to commit to a date for the alchemical matter specs.

“Ever since he's been put on Catalyst duty, he's gotten cocky. I got nothing out of him during our meeting. I don't have time for that. People send me to check in and get commitments. If he's going to act like this, I’ll have to take him down a peg.”

Elodie almost believed that nothing had ever changed. And then of course, her daily seizure swept her out of herself and into the infinity of futures.

She clawed her way back out of a whirlwind of numbers and segments of words that were repeated to her in sequence over and over again. It was even more fragmented than usually, and she assumed it was a direct consequence of the volume of information she was handling again, without being fully intellectually ready for it. But she found herself awake again on the floor, Soraya supporting her head. Her hands were bloody, and there was a healing beam directed above her eye level.

"How did she even do that?" Soraya asked someone else, and with a sigh, someone put Elodie on a stretcher.

Elodie closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she was upright, listening to the end of the same sentence.

"... take him down a peg.

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