I enjoy your writing style and format. It's very pleasing to my eyes and easy to read.
This seems like a good setup for a good story. I look forward to more.
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoy what I've written so far.
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Reimu
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A sharp inhale is suddenly heard from a frail, bed-ridden girl as she awakes in a cold sweat. Chills rush throughout her entire body? except her hand. Clasped around this hand, are the hands of another. The tired visage of this woman holding the younger girl?s hand bears both indescribable pain and bliss simultaneously as she feels life return to the awakening child.
Reimu struggled to make significance of the figure standing beside her, who was clenching her hand as tears rolled down her face. It was difficult, as the lights in the room blinded her eyes as she tried to open them and adjust. The pupils, which had not seen light for several weeks, dilated from a medium-sized coin to a pinpoint to regulate the flow of artificial light.
Light was only a small part of the vast stimuli that overwhelmed her body and mind. The crinkle of bed sheets which did not belong to her, the complete loss of any sense of time or position, the source of the beeping coming from the side of the bed opposite from where the other woman was standing, the identity of the woman standing next to her?
Mother?Was the last thought Reimu?s fragile consciousness could gather before slipping into a disconcerted stupor.
Reimu?s mother continued to hold her hand. The expression on her face couldn?t decide whether to let more tears out or to let a pained smile flash across her face.
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Yukari
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In Kyoto, Japan, there?s an obscure private college. Only Japan?s most dignified students are allowed into this prestigious educational center. Only students who will become world leaders in medicine, science, politics and the like, are allowed to be in the know of such an institution.
?Renko? Renko, are you alright?? calls out a young blonde donning a rather odd white mob cap.
?Ngh,? cries out a voice underneath a bed.
?Oh. How?d you end up under there??
?Because
you put me here? OOF!?
Renko, dressed in a more traditional manner than her counterpart, manages to pull herself from beneath the bed?
barely.
?Here, I?ll help you up,? offered the blonde.
?You damn well better,? retorted Renko, chuckling.
After being pulled up from the ground, Renko dusted herself off and began to speak to her friend,
?So, Yuk??
?At?tat?tat,? chastised the friend.
?Oh, right. Sorry, Mary.?
?It?s quite alright. It has been quite some time, after all.?
?I do have a question though??
?Ask away.?
?Why do we have to use pseudonyms??
Mary let out what seemed like a sigh she had been holding along with her breath,
?You forgot already? I trust that if I explain it more clearly this time, it?ll stick??
?You betcha~?
?Alright. Well, you are at least aware that we are shape shifters, yes??
?Yeah, that much I remember. Go on.?
?We have such powers because people do not know our true identity. Identity, in itself, is ambiguous at best. However, a popular belief is that all objects, sentient and non-sentient, are given an identity when they are named. This belief stresses that nothing has significance until it is given a structured way to recall it. Since names give an individual a way to recall an object, their existence becomes known. In cases where entities are not meant to exist such as?? Mary paused for a bit before continuing, ?You and I, recalling our true names will, in essence, remind the universe that we?re not supposed to exist. Any precautions that can prevent this must be taken.?
?Yes, I remember now. You said we were intangible sentient beings? that we were on the border of existence and nonexistence.?
?Indeed. Unfortunately, our real names in this world aren?t the only things we have to keep secret.?
?We have to keep our names between worlds different as well.?
?Exactly. Because identities change from world to world, we can maintain multiple instances of identities simultaneously. If anyone recalls a pseudonym from a different world, we can no longer return to world where the false identity lies.?
Yukari Yakumo and Suika Ibuki are shape shifters of the forgotten age? the last of their kind. Yukari is able to alter her appearance by manipulating delicate borders between colors, shapes, sizes, and similar physical characteristics, as well as non-physical traits like her voice. Suika changes her outer appearance by gathering the particles and genetic structure that make up her body differently as well as manipulating the density of herself to achieve various results.
They are here, conversing in the college they had chosen as the best medium for studying all modern conclusions that humans had drawn about the world. Yukari, whose powers involved the manipulation of borders, masqueraded as an eager psychology student to see what assumptions humans had made on the mind and behaviors. She is particularly interested in the advent of what each individual perceives to be their own ?reality?.
Suika, whose abilities revolved around manipulating density and ?gathering? (in multiple senses of the word), was more interested in objective, hard science. She acted under the pretense of being a disputatious physics student to understand what humans had gathered about the motion and energy of the world around them.
Each had chosen their respective subjects to learn how to limit their powers to the limits of human understanding, in order to avoid detection. If they were to reveal their true capabilities, frightened humans would exterminate them as they had exterminated their youkai brethren. Although capable of unfathomable feats, their morality also influenced how they controlled such incomprehensible forces. It is for these reasons that the two youkais? true potentials remain unknown. It is the reason why no one knows just how much influence they have on the natural world of mortals?
Prologue End
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