Return to self
Jai sat outside Baen’s home staring up at the sky. She was mentally and physically exhausted but she couldn’t sleep. She felt a little embarrassed at how she had been with Baen. It showed a strength of character that he hadn’t taken advantage of her but she was still blushing every time she thought about how forward she’d been. She was feeling an overload of emotions, he’d been right about that, 137 years worth of memory, emotion and everything in between. It was kind of hard to take in all at once.
She still didn’t know what had happened. She remembered being at home, her home, well her new reality home, that still hadn’t really sunk in. For the most part everything here was the same. But she’d been at home, she’d had breakfast after Rose had gone back through the portal. And then she’d been in the forest and it had seemed as if she’d been there all her life. She started giggling remembering her time at the forest. Special didn’t even begin to cover it. No wonder everyone had looked at her strangely. Oh my god, had she really dressed ferrets up to put on plays. Jai set her head in her hands and simply lost it to the giggles. The laughter was therapeutic, a release of a lot of other emotions through the safety net of laughter.
When she was finished she felt better but still not ready for sleep. So she ported herself home. Another shower, this one a proper one and then dressing in her own clothes. She needed the comfort of the familiar and dressed in her favourite skirt, a long flowing, what did the woman call it, gypsy style skirt. A complimentary top followed that sat off her shoulders. She looked in the mirror enjoying the familiarity of it. Music was turned on and skirt in fingers she began to dance around flicking her skirt to the beat of the music. She had to stop after barely half a song, she didn’t have the energy.
She moved instead to the desk and unlocked the hidden draw pulling out her journal. Kelsen? Kelsen had been here? In her own reality Kelsen had not visited but there were still some differences between the two and this was one of them. Jai put the book back filing that away to think on some more. Surely Kelsen couldn’t have had anything to do with what happened to her. If he was trying to kill her she’d be dead and he would have no reason that she could see to make her go all kinds of crazy.
Jai rested back in the chair and managed to get a couple of hours sleep, somehow. She woke a little stiff with the sunlight pouring in a warm caress of her skin. “Baen.” She didn’t want him to get worried that she’d reverted to crazy ways in the night or accidentally ported herself half way to China. Working her powers in this reality was different and she was going to have to learn to control them better it seemed but she wasn’t quite so accident prone now, though the cold carnage would have happened regardless. Last time she’d had a cold that bad she’d exploded half the dance studio with a single sneeze. Jai went out into the garden and picked some spring flowers, she ported to a local market and purchased some lovely smelling pastries and then went back to Baen’s finding him still asleep. She smiled fondly at him. Even if nothing happened with them in that was she was still glad that the wind had sent him to her. She didn’t care what he said it was because of him she was restored again, and this simple breakfast would be the first of many little acts to show her gratitude. With that in mind she set the food up on the bench and went about squeezing some juice waiting for him to wake up.
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