I woke up at 5 o’clock on the dot. I stared up at the clock as it ticked out the seconds of the day. Even when dead I still don’t sleep much and got up no later than 5 on the dot. I looked down at the book I had been reading when I fell asleep, it was open to a spell for transformation, the ability to transform into another living creature, I wondered if it worked on dead people.
Without thinking of the possible dangers I recited the words to the spell and thought of an owl, I didn’t know why, but it was the first thing to come to mind. I stared at a mirror on the door of my walk in closet and watched as my body morphed into the form of a beautiful white owl, I had never seen such an amazingly breathtaking sight. I cooed in delight as I stretched my wings out and ruffled my feathers. Without thinking I flapped my wings and took off, luckily my room had a high ceiling and I flew to the top and came back down, landing on the balcony, overwatching the town below me.
There wasn’t any activity in the town, just the ashed remains of houses and sheds. I launched myself out to the open sky and circled the town, screeching out as I flew back towards my balcony. Flying was a rush of adrenaline and unbelievable, even in the darkness of death I couldn’t imagine a better feeling.
I landed on my balcony and morphed back into myself, it was similar to soul binding but I had to think the spell book words to change back and I had found I could only make the sounds that that animal could make, not like I could as I did when soul binding.
I put the spell book back in its place on the shelf and went into the bathroom to take a shower. When I got out I browsed thru the clothes in my closet, looking for something to wear. I noticed that the mirror on my closet door showed a picture of me in a black button up dress shirt and jeans that looked like dress pants, along with my combat boots that showed up in nearly every image I saw of me since coming here, and my dagger strapped to my right thigh. I thought nothing of it and grabbed a pair of black jeans and a tank top. I put them on and strapped my dagger to my right thigh and slipped my combat boots on.
I pulled open the door to my bedroom and found Dawn standing there.
“Hello.” I said, uncertainly.
“Oh, hello, I was just coming to see if you were awake.” She said calmly.
“Of course, I never sleep past 5. I uhh took a shower and got dressed.”
At that she took a glance at what I was wearing and scrutinized me. “Goodness, you can’t wear that! Did the mirror show you that?”
“The mirror?” Then I remembered last night’s conversation. “Oh, no, I just picked out some clothes.”
“You always wear what the mirror tells you, it tells you of your future and what you should be wearing for the occasion, in this case anyway.”
“Ok?” I turned back and went into my closet again. I found myself pulling out just what the mirror showed and I put it on. I didn’t see how what I wore would matter, but I didn’t want to upset Dawn, she was the only one that could explain things.
When Dawn saw me in my new outfit she nodded and gestured me to follow.
“Where are we going?” I asked her.
“To speak with The Goddess.”
“The Goddess?” I repeated as a question.
“Yes.”
“What for?”
“No one knows what The Goddess wishes.”
The rest of the trip was wordless as we left the mansion and walked thru the ashened village. We entered a house that looked like it would collapse at any moment and walked down into the basement. Great, I thought, if the house does collapse we’re going to be locked in the basement to die, if we even could die again. I started wondering if I could die again as Dawn started cleaning off a soot covered mirror.
Next thing I knew Dawn was pulling me thru the mirror behind her, I had no idea what was going on.
And there's part 36! Hope you enjoyed! Sorry we're at a bit of a boring spot but it'll bet better, as it always does. What'd you think? Who is this Goddess? (I don't actually believe in such things but find them easy tobring my story into.) Questions? Comments? Leave me many!
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