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The day ten became twenty...
Having lived simply enough for some times, perhaps even weeks, Se'rox found herself still wanting to know more. She ventured out further from her home, walking instead of flash-jumping*, since she needed to know where she was in order to do that, and she was trying to find new places.
Every day she would wake in her adobe hut, and flash-jump to where she had been when she had given up the night before. Then she would walk all day. Not in a straight line, mind you, because she could only see in a ten-pace radius the world around her. Her pattern was more of a zig-zag, which actually made her progress slower, even if it did make her knowledge of the area more complete.
It was on one such day that she noticed, after flash-jumping to her last night's end-point, that she could see much further. Her radius of view jumped from ten to twenty paces, and much more of the world opened up to her. With renewed interest in her quest for knowledge (and, at this point, other intelligent life), Se'rox moved faster than before, almost at a run, finally, since she no longer had to be afraid she wouldn't see something in time and might trip and fall over it.
She sped along that morning, and stopped for lunch when she got hungry. She hated not being able to tell the time except for morning and evening. The times of day, and that she should be able to know them was, oddly enough, one of those random bits of information that she knew, but did not know how she knew.
After lunch, she went on again. However, she noticed the forest thinning out finally, and had to slow down her zig-zag running.
It was shortly thereafter that Lilah saw her. Lilah was surprised, looking up from gathering rare flowers and wild herbs, to see the woman with short silvery-blue hair, zig-zagging across the forest. Lilah was a ways off, and found it interesting that the young woman hadn't yet noticed her. But it only took a moment of watching the woman for Lilah to notice it; she never looked down. She avoided bushes and roots and fallen branches, but never once looked down. The girl was somehow blind, but obviously could read the world around her.
It was curious to Lilah, then, that the woman still could not see her. So, as the young woman passed Lilah- still a ways off, and seemed to not notice her at all, Lilah had to speak up.
"It doesn't seem to be working well enough for you." Lilah said simply.
Se'rox stopped immediately, and turned to face the voice off to the side. It seemed a way off... she could see nothing that far off.
"I mean, you can see the ground, but not me?" Lilah continued, after the young woman didn't respond. Not getting much but the blank look on the girl's face, Lilah stood, setting down her gardening and collecting tools for the moment. "I think you need either more practice, or possibly some help."
Se'rox hadn't moved, but at that slowly started walking towards Lilah. She was confused a few moments later, when she could sense some odd... metal things and such on the ground twenty paces out, but a few more steps brought nothing more into her view.
"You... aren't a tool." Se'rox noted, as she could feel the earth clumped on one of the metal things, and the bucket held a few bulbs and sprigs of herbs. "But you should have been... right there." Se'rox said, and pointed right to where Lilah had spoken from a moment ago.
Lilah smiled, but was still uncertain about this new young woman. Her aura was... gray-like, almost colorless, which she had never seen before. Lilah hovered six feet above the ground still, but decided to speak.
"You are more different than anyone I've ever seen before. And trust me, I've seen many types." Lilah paused, as the young woman's face tracked her, and it was obvious she knew Lilah was not on the ground anymore. The young woman had a look of interested surprise on her face. Lilah saw the innocence on the young woman's face. Lilah smiled, as she decided this girl was a friend, and something to find more about.
"My name is Lilah. Lilah Blueaecid. What's yours?" Lilah asked.
"My name is... Se'rox Ludiceabes." Se'rox replied, wanting to know more about the flying woman....
((to be continued))
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