A Nuisance Creature (Friesha's note 2)

"I can feel it", every single being of existence has their own energy flowing out from them. Energy which symbolizes individuality of a person, or a category of a certain state of matter. This energy, which somehow illustrates an existence's very being, cycles within its host, keeping it a piece of reality. For humans, this energy means nothing but for us mages, we call it "realea".

This energy is what we used to create magical phenomena, our very fuel for magic. Through the use of realea identification, classification, and usage, we mages mold it, shape it in accordance to whatever it can be converted, then release it as a new form of existence. Realea is everywhere, leaking about every existence, as it mostly circulates it's host while tiny pieces of it are scattered all over the place, mixing with other realea particles.

"I can really feel it," the realea flowage of the trees around me, the rocks, the birds, the soil, as well as, the tiny and huge creatures behind leaves or shrubs. However, there seems to be realea flow which stood out from the rest. This realea flow seemed to follow my movements. Every step that I make, I can feel realea flow from its gaze. This made me uncomfortable (and creeped out) for it may become dangerous to let this being follow me.

I have been walking for three days now, and recently felt this gaze from something about an hour ago. To give it a sign of confidence, I halted my walk and fixated my eyes towards the source. Past behind those shrubs, under a tree, there it swayed together with the leaves and grasses as the wind passed by it so gently. Indeed it swayed very visibly, those strands of dark brown hair hiding behind the bushes. Looking closely, I can even see shoes in a pale dark green color. There that creature hid, perhaps it's eyes still fixated on me with great hopes that I am foolish enough to not see it. For some reason this annoyed (and somehow entertained) me, yet decided to just merely let the creature be, for perhaps it may just be hungry or curious about me. If this creature would attack, I can easily fend it off without a single worry for myself. Therefore I decided to just leave it be.

A few hours of walking finally made that creature leave which gave me the satisfaction of solitude once again. Based on its realea, it definitely was a human, a male human almost my age I think. If I were to encounter it, I may not hold myself back if it attacked and might end up killing it, thus leaving it be truly was the best decision. With that thing off of my mind, I continued towards my destination free of worry from humans' harmful effects on my goal. During the past three days since my departure, I have already passed by two villages on my way as I merely went around them to not get seen. Any form of human encounter will surely endanger my existence as a mage thus precaution is very required. With extra carefulness, I continued on with my journey.

After another few hours of walking, I heard a sound which changed my usual demeanor. This sound reverberated inside my head. Tracing the sound, I ended up in my own stomach which seemingly begged to be fed. "Well it's past lunch time," as I looked for a place to eat. That was when I realized that my final portion of food was indeed, my final portion of food. Scurrying my bag, I only found vials with roots, leaves, and powders which doesn't seem to fit to what we can call as edible. "Now this is a bother," I thought to myself as another growl came from the honest feelings of my stomach. Without anything in mind on what to do, I stood up and decided to continue walking with hopes of encountering a certain solution to serve as my salvation. Even a single fruit-bearing tree is enough for I could just use magic to make it bear fruit. Although in my mother's perspective, magic shouldn't be used for selfish reasons, except on emergencies like self defense or to aid someone in need. However for me, this is merely self defense against hunger and death, which is an emergency (right?). With that in mind, I continued walking.