I thought I would see her when I wake up. But she is gone. It may be because she came to the portal a tad bit earlier than I did. Or that she’s abandoned me somehow.

There is no regret in my heart. Even if I hadn’t managed to save my white lotus, I still feel calm. Why? The universe says this is bound to happen. A one week’s romance can be liberated by a lifetime of interwoven connections, like the one she left me.

I can sense her presence near that house. As I come closer, the more I can feel it. She has been here. She’s telling me that she’s been here.

The house is a bungalow, similar to the ones in the outside world. You don’t know this yet but me, Nikay, Ivy, that girl and all the others are studying at some kind of magic academy. It is where all those gifted and maybe discriminated persons come and study. Our gift is a special something that a normal person naturally wouldn’t have. Some of my classmates say that it’s because those from outside are jealous of our gifts that’s why they isolated us. It could be, I think. Or it could be that a past predecessor has once caused unintended hammock which is why the gifted ones willingly isolated themselves.

I first came to the academy when I was nine. That’s a bit too old compared to the others. Often they would go about their lives and openly show their powers which is why they are easily detected and thus, imprisoned in the academy.

My situation is a bit different. I knew that something is wrong with me since the first time my powers appeared. I saw a dog snatching my older sister’s bag and long after that I knew where it went because the bag wants to be found and returned to my sister.

I am somewhat a retriever of things to their rightful places. I see the paths where people might cross and where people might lose touch of one another.

This is why I’m stricken all the while I’m with Nikay because I know that beside her is not my rightful place and there will never come a time where us being together is a given.

I have betrayed fate for so long that I almost forgot about this ability of mine… until I found her. The one who’s place with I’m rightfully to take, the one who I lost but is willing to be found.