Time in the Womb : 2

Lucy stares. I'm a dual psychic? What powers come with the yellow sparkles? Will the training she used with her pure energy work here? Tugging on the yellow sparkles, Lucy combines a few sparkles. It required a slightly different touch, but Lucy picked it up quickly. Once all the loose yellow sparkles have combined into one, Lucy opens her mental sea. Lucy pauses. Her mental sea was denser. Curious at the change, Lucy focuses and moves it. It was strangely stable. Usually, her mental sea shook and tugged at her powers attempting to get away. Now, it was so simple.

Shaking off her daze, Lucy guides the combined yellow sparkle in forming a little stream. Lucy etches a path in her mental sea for it to flow through, so she wouldn't have to guide it all the time. A trick, Lucy had learned shortly after her 21st birthday. It improved her control over her pure energy tremendously. Lucy begins to combine her silver sparkles, but it doesn't take long to establish her pure energy stream.

That done, Lucy was bored once again. This sucks! Even with the Spirit Seeds producing new sparkles, it took only a few seconds to fuse those few sparkles into her two streams. Hearing some noise, Lucy perks up. "Please darling, have an affinity. Any affinity" Mom's voice filters through. What's an affinity? Lucy wrinkles her forehead. "Don't be a waste," Mom says, so softly Lucy almost can't hear her. Waste? "Even if it's weak, I can protect you, just have an affinity, darling." What the hell's an affinity? Lucy kicks, frustrated. Explain more!

Too bad, Mom went quiet, and no amount of kicking would make her start again. Lucy sulks. How much of my 9 months are left? My pure energy's so unstable, I can't even attempt to read minds. Let alone the fact I'd have to be touching someone. With nothing else to do, Lucy returns to her inner sky, looking at the sparse sparkles that been produced while she listened to her Mom.

Staring at her Spirit Seeds, Lucy suddenly remembered Aunt Thea's theory. If one could remove all the energy sparkles, and absorb Primal Energy it might be possible to strengthen the inner sky, and Spirit Seed. Lucy and Aunt had never been able to test it. Opening a mental sea happened naturally once the Spirit core was formed, and the Spirit core was anchored into the inner sky.

Lucy closes her eyes to sense and is stunned. Oh my! So much Primal Essence! Lucy begins to gather it in her inner sky. Lucy can feel her inner sky strengthening, as it sunk in every nook and cranny. Days pass, while Lucy absorbs Primal essence, as fast as she could. Lucy resented, every time she was forced to stop and move the sparkles into her mental sea. This Primal essence wouldn't be as rich when she was born. Every breath passed, was one wasted.

Lucy stretches, feeling a bit cramped, happily examining her inner sky. It was no longer absorbing any Primal essence. Lucy turns her eyes to the Spirit Seeds, and cautiously sends a bit towards the yellow Spirit Seed. It sucked it up greedily. After a moment, it's glow flashes brighter for a second. It will strengthen it! Lucy grins and begins to gather the Primal essence once again.

Perhaps it was inevitable, perhaps it was fate. Lucy never noticed a black Seed gently soaking in the Primal essence she shoved in her inner sky, or the shadowy black sparkles it produced. Her gaze glued to the silver, and yellow Spirit Seed watching as they grew brighter and brighter. Until one day, all three Spirit seeds burst into a blinding blaze.