Yu was very busy, specifically because she was very busy 🥺, sadly she didn't have time for band practice, though they were understanding, Yu wasn't. Thus, she practiced every night, no matter how tired she was and due to this, band aids and bandages covered her hands, while she took everything for the ritual and went to her parents, just to be chided by her mother, the moment she stepped over the threshold.
As she was tired, albeit usual politeness, Yu was incapable of anything else, and tried to speak as few words as possible.
The house of her parents was big, large even with a very large garden and surrounding forest.
Not because it still looked like this, but because this dimension was anchored to the time spot, it had first existed in. However, time needed to flow, so it didn't stand still and it didn't loop, instead it had it's own timeline, which made it easier for spells and rituals to locate it.
And thus, it was a space in time.
Consequently, they could travel to and from this place.
The original time had been over 500 years ago, when they had decided to settle there. According to her father they had multiple such spaces, but Yu was only familiar with this one. She had also created it, with the help of her father.
Her mother was not able to do such time magic. And they would have managed without it, but why should they? And so she was here, discussing with her mother that no, she was awake enough for this, and another question haunting her.
But not now.
So, when they gathered next to the pond on the stonetiled floor, which had a small sitting area and was circular in shape, her father did not chide her, but he looked at her concerned and took some of the herbs from her.
They arranged it on the small table and as they were halfway through, Yu knew that her father would take the lead. Because he had sensed her fatique and wanted her to do the less straining part. So instead of the planned object, she would be the anchor to create the portal. This would still be quite straining, so even though he did take pity on her, Yu knew in a way this was punishment.
As she had moved out at an earlier date, she wouldn't have to get the 'Knowledge' from the memory flood.
The water of the pond, which was nestled with lotus flowers, was very cold, however it felt more soothing for her, since it enhanced the healing of her wounds.
It tingled through her body and when she reached the middle of the water body, she dove down.
In that moment it just so happened that the wind, which was conjured as byproduct of the ritual, ripped of a flower, from a far away magnolia tree, and after a tug of war, the flower sauntered down exactly on the ripple, created by Yu's dive.
It spun on the surface, but neither sank nor drifted off, it seemed as if there was a thread attached to it and keeping it in place.
Meanwhile, day and night happened shortly after one another, similar to a time lapse. Her parents stood at the edge of the pond, while they changed into a more humanoid shape, astral projections diverted from their bodies and seemed to live the lapse of 300 years within about 3 hours.
During this, Yu swam downward and never stopped. She didn't know how long it took, just when she saw light, she broke through the surface and looked around.
They were in the Now.
The flower now rested on her head and she touched it lightly with her fingertips. A smile broke out on her face and then she swam to leave the pond.
The pond disappeared and she stood there, where it had been, effectively soaked. Yu stood behind her parents house.
At every step that she took toward the house, a flood of recollections surged up in her mind and gave her a slight nosebleed.
She started to see stars dancing in her vision and a headache bloomed behind her eyes that reached into her frontal lobe.
It was dizzying and the moment she lost consciousness, her father caught her and carried her into the house.
He had waited for her to get inside, had watched the mirage of the pond fade out of existence, but as she was staggering, he immediately went to her to carry her to her room.
His wife was already preparing everything, to seamlessly start the life they had had lived already.
Yu's father was more used to it, but his wife still struggled a bit with the flood of new memories.
It weren't passive memories, it was always like a multiple choice situation, this made it more straining and depending on what they decided this also altered the time flow.
Exactly this took a toll on them, because for a stable time flow, the time used the most likely outcomes and if they just kept with it, it was more or less fine, but if they didn't, which was preferable sometimes, however it was like climbing the Fuji.
This is to say that it was straining nonetheless, but if they deviated from this so called 'plot', it got excruciatingly painful, which was why Yu had started a nosebleed, and that had been the reason for Yu's mum's worry.
Still her father knew her well enough that it wouldn't have changed anything, even if he had forbidden her participation, and so, he carried her into her room and put her on her bed, before going back and looking at all the new gadgets and inventions lining and filling the house.
His daughter was as stubborn as he had been and even though he denied it still was.
It was new and familiar at the same time and a lot had changed. He had a phone now... and post-it's lined everything as memos.
This was actually helpful, but wouldn't stop him from ignoring them. Even though that they were more colourful than the plates intrigued him.
Both of them had jobs to settle into and to relearn some things. They also had to let the memories truly settle in and become ingrained in their mind, while their daughter slept and dreamed, they were busily exploring and restocking the house.
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