75 The Denbora Bridge (1/2)
I parted ways with my brothers as soon as we sprinted up the main entrance stair way. I turned left and then right down the well lit cla.s.sroom corridors. Many senior students were filing into their cla.s.srooms; some flashed me odd looks as I pa.s.sed, but I didn't pay them heed as I kept my focus to the double doors at the end.
According my timetable instructions these doors led to an open walkway that connected the school building to the enormous moonstone pillar tower.
”s.h.i.+t!” I yelped when I opened the doors to air, and managed to scramble back to the safety of the corridor.
What the h.e.l.l was that Ryuu doing by giving me joke instructions? This door opened to no corridor, but a wide divide between buildings. Brute force of cold winds blew at my face. I looked down and gulped at the tiny rose bushes and dense briar-patches below. There was still a hefty drop from where I was.
My heart raced with frighten at the forceful push I felt to my back. It made me totter dangerously on the edge. I was able to right my balance by clinging to the doors' handles tighter. I turned with a scowl to the despicable person and groaned when I saw it was Trix.
He stood with one hand resting on the edge of his utility belt to reveal his guns in his shoulder holsters beneath his patchwork overcoat. A stupid smug expression was on his face.
”You going to hang on to the doors forever?” His hands twitched with cheek as he signed. Seems he was enjoying his revenge from this morning.
I sighed and took a few steps back to safety. My mouth and hands readied themselves to spit out a curse when the unexpected change of the scenery made me pause and mouth drop with an 'oh'.
”Like, so beautiful to see the raw colours of Sol, isn't it?” Marilyn's voice cooed with starstruck awe in my mind.
”Why am I seeing this now? I mean, I never saw it again when I was with the colonel.”
I raised my hand to feel the various particle lights bathing our surroundings. My face relaxed into a stupid smile as my star-snowflake chi signature moved about streams of gold particles.
”I dunno, delayed reaction maybe, or, like could be related to the Denbora Bridge before us.”
I twirled my hand about the air, manipulating patterns of light and color with aid of discreet grey particle dots that pushed the colours around according to my will.
Trix grabbed my hand to stop my movements.
I flinched at the dazzling purple aura surrounding his face, noticing the wheel shaped chi particle of his outline. It was a firm and resplendent chi signature, emitting an energy of stoicism gained from cultivated wisdom of an epic and ancient bloodline. Such a cultivated blood would surely grant the holder a lonely existence; as they would need to carry the weight of a powerful ancestry within their ego.
My heart understood. Trix's ego held intuition of an acc.u.mulated wisdom of great ages. So, he was bound to form misunderstandings with lesser evolved chi patterns or be called upon to stand out as a lighthouse for the new and misguided. I wanted to give him a cuddle filled with rea.s.surances that it was okay to be that guiding light and an ego of distinct difference.
Another heart beat pounding against my ears made the moment go strange fairly quickly.