11 A Trap (1/2)
The next morning when the sun was rising above the horizon a ray of light founds its way through Sam's room window, located next to his closet above his desk, and shined its way into Sam's eyes.
In response, Sam rolled over, buried his head under his comforter and tried to return to his dreams, and give on that notion a moment later. If there was one thing Sam didn't like about himself it was that once he woke up nothing short of a strong blow to the head good blow to the head could get him to sleep until at least twelve hours pass he couldn't even take a nap he hates how efficient his body was.
”What's worse,” he thought ”tonight was actually a good night sweet dreams and I feel completely at peace” groaning Sam threw off his comforter and got up, he walked over to his closet and pulled out a pair of combat jeans a black t-shirt with white lines that formed roses.
After he changed in the bathroom at the end of the hall and put the clothes he slept in back in his closet, Sam went downstairs to the kitchen to make breakfast, which he decided would be homemade waffles that were in the freezer. For a few moments, he considered if he should hear them up in the oven or the toaster,
In the end, he chose the toaster that would allow him to give them a little variety in their shade.
A good twenty-thirty minutes later all the waffles were done and stacked lighter one on the bottom and darker ones on the top. Placing the waffles tower on the kitchen table he grabs the maple giant syrup and butter then places them on either side of it.
Rooting through the cabinet he found the food stasis stones, he placed the stones at four points equal distance from each other and summoned a bit of mana to active them.
When the Mana entered one of the stones, the runes on the stone light up before a small beam of bluish-white light flew out the stone left to the next stone and that stone's runes to light up. Then that rune let out a beam of light that well you get it.
When all the stones were connected and powered up the beams started to rise to form a dome over the tower of waffles, when it was completed the color faded until the dome became mostly see through.
That done Sam went to the backyard to do some light morning exercise in the morning sun.
Stasis stones were a were another form of rune tech, one of the easiest and cheapest pieces relatively speaking. This was because to make them you just needed a strong enough stone to handle the force of the mana needed to create the stasis field.
There were many forms and uses of stasis fields, for example, the stasis stone that Sam used are for mostly temperature and a bit of time stasis. This kind was pretty simple to make especially for non-living things, living things were a different matter.
Putting living things in stasis was difficult because there at least a hundred things you had to take account of and that is for plants and if one thing was wrong what was in the field may not last half the time it would outside the field.
Some of the most common uses for stasis was long distance delivery services, long term storage units, and time dilation learning.
Time dilation learning came in two different forms with multiple mixes of the two, the forms were physical and mental.
There are very long and detailed explanations of how these stasis fields work but the simplest was putting the body in stasis and letting the mind experience for mental and putting the mind in stasis and letting the body experience for physical, Vague yes but accurate.
Mental time dilation learning was the more used of the two, mostly used In high end schools were they are used to give students days worth of learning in just a few hours, it was a moderately effective method it would be more so if it didn't cost a tiny fortune every time it was used which was way they were early used by those who didn't own a large and steady income. Physical time dilation learning was cheaper not by a lot but cheaper nonetheless for healing the body was easier than healing the mind
Mental time dilation had another use that was very popular around the world in prison, with the use of mental time dilation stasis fields criminal could serve their sentence in a short amount of time even if it was several years long, but this option was only offered to those who crimes were minor in terms of crimes, those who from the bottom of there heart regretted what they did, those who had no other choice and were desperate, or has good behavior and got their time reduced, (The last one was the most common the first was the least).
Sam reenters the house slightly sweaty, tired, and sore from his workout, ”does this mean I am out of shape or out of practice,” he said to himself as he walked over to the kitchen to get some water, after grabbing a bottle from the fridge he walked up the stairs and into Tyrone room to find him asleep on the computer chair head on his desk that he set up last night.
”He must not have finished putting his set up together if he is sleeping in his chair like that” Sam sighed as he walked over to Tyrone and straightened back into his chair carefully as to not wake the boy. Then he grabbed a blanket off the bed and draped it over the younger teen before he made the chair recline to Tyrone's usual preference.
Exiting the room sam returned to his room and quietly as a ghost he put on some deodorant before he went back downstairs to eat some of the waffles he made with a bit of butter and a moderate amount of syrup.
When he was done he placed his plate in the sink, then entered the living room and sat on the living room couch turning the holo-t.v. first, he watched the news for a bit to see how things were going and the answer was mixed the situation the island was going in a positive direction but worldwide it seemed to be getting worse like it was spreading strange as it sounds that was a clear possibility in the world sam lived in.
When he was done with the news sam surfed the channels a bit before he decided on a game show about eating mysterious mesh and guessing what made the mesh, he watched this for about maybe two hours before Sophia dragged herself downstairs well at least Sam thought it was Sophia, her hair was a mess it looked like a rats nest after a twister hit it twice, it also appears that she didn't remove her make up last night and that she was not a morning person at all.
”Good morning Sophia” he greeted her full of energy just to annoy her.
”Morning” she responded with negative energy and an annoyed tone, ”do you have any coffee I can drink?”
”No we don't keep coffee in the house not after my dad spent five days awake drinking nothing but coffee,” Sam said turning back to the show they had just entered the final round.
”That's fine” she sounded kinda miserable so Sam took mercy on her and told her
”But we do have teas with caffeine in them, would that work”
”Yes, thank you” she sounded like he just saved her life, Sam had to push down the laugh that came with the thought.
Getting off the couch sam asked her ”so what kind of tea would you like?”
”Any is fine, I don't have much experience with tea,” she said giving a dismissive wave
”Then how about chamomile, its what my father uses now,” he asked when he opened the tea cabinet.
”If that is what you recommend?” sam was unsure if the curiosity in her voice was about the tea on the show on the tv.
”Yes, that is what I recommend” he responded with light sarcasm while grabbed the tea leaves.
”Then ill shall have it dear host” threw the sarcasm right back.
”Then I'll have to ask you to be patient while I prepare” he threw it back while he filled the kettle with water, while the water was boiling the two of them continued to talk with a good layer of sarcasm in there words, they talk while the leaves were steeping but the sarcasm level went down as the topic became a bit more serious for they talked about what say saw on the news earlier.
When sam gave Sophia her tea she took a small sip then another before she asked a question ”I been meaning to ask but what with that stack of waffles on the table”