Out Worlder

Okay Ruby don't panic. It's not everyday you regress into a baby. She stared at her hand, I mean stuff is blurry, people move you around. There are glowy things? What are these glows things anyway? She wondered but found herself tired and fell asleep.

"You're child has great potential she made a remarkable radiance. I would like to place her with a learning cube as soon as possible." He spoke his words hushed as if afraid of others hearing too soon.

"I trust you will keep this secret." The mother was afraid it was not unknown for children to be taken early.

"I'm afraid a report has already been made. The radiance was too bright. You were before the public anyone could of seen and reported it. I requested you both be placed in more appropriate settings to safe guard you and the child. While your child matures." He stroked his beard as if to assure himself.

This was Red Kingdom the land of the forge near hot volcanoes. The castle was made of silver and gold, trims with obsidian turrets. Rainbow glass from the Gold kingdom a metal rich area detailed the city used to enhance meditation and healing. The fiery climate however made the people more lively and prone to mischief. The region had a temperate warm climate with a wild jungle of forest with colorful dragons and lizards. Hot pools of water next to a nearby ocean with silvery white fish that swam both in air and water. There crystal was a red ruby hence my name stayed the same for the startling hue.

"I would suggest since your child produced a light of white she should be nurtured more towards the sea where the white fish glide. If she is chosen by one of the children of the sea or even an ocean dragon it would be a better life as a saint. Than a child of war of Obsidian riding a war dragon facing the front lines. The tester spoke seriously his mauve robe quiet as he tried to project a feeling of calm. He chose a nondescript testing site not poor, not rich, the middle. Hoping to not get caught in any troublesome matters. In fact he had hoped to be overlooked. His robes were his most modest. He should of worn grey. He tried not to touch his matching mauve hat again he aimed for calm. His voice as gentile as possible.

"My husband wanted our child no matter the gender to go join his guild." She began. He tried not to frown. This could get messy. His quiet over, he tried brutal honesty.

"She shows no light of war it will be a waste. She should go where her strength is needed. She doesn't show a shine of light to even get into the merchant class to help in trade at a guild. They would use her as a healer. This is no place for a healer. She would still be sent to sea or the jungle to learn from the sacred grove. Her light is too bright they will take her instead to learn higher those are the two places you could still be with her. If you stay here she would be fostered to another family to train. There at another household they would find if her radiance grew brighter or dimmed." His eye shifted away.

"I myself was taken from my mother. I would like you not to experience what my mother felt." He paused as if to say more. "But perhaps it is too late."

"Is this the child... The one that lit the room. I saw the light from my balcony and had to come such radiance. A white light the potential why I dare to boast could make our nation rise." A portly man came into the room his eyes sharp with gleeful cunning.

The widow did not know what to say this was a public place as she had been warned. That all children had to receive there birth stone and was the testing point. A place every mother feared. Children with high potential where taken.

She had taken a quiet spot where the tester had a kind face but the light. The light was too bright. She feared the worst.

"I believe that child may have to go through many tests." A thin older man appeared he wore a square hat. His long beard almost reaching the ground. His robe and hat a pristine white.

"What do you mean?" All three turned in surprise.

"This child is not from these parts her energy seems strange, foreign. She may have to go to one of the meditation rooms. Her spiritual self seems older. She may have trouble adapting."

"Adapting?" The mother grew fearful. She heard stories of this and sometimes babies were even killed.

"Yes... Imagine waking up in a child's body how would you feel." He said.

"Strange." They nodded.

"Yes! Exactly so. We will have to make a detailed learning plan. The language is probably different. I felt a flutter of bewilderment before she fell asleep probably an outrage faint. I am a visiting tester from the Gold kingdom. I am also interested in this child and mother. She has more options to think of such a fortitudinous event. I think we should all reconvene in a more hospitable setting." He continued excitedly. His sleeves ballooning around him.

"Gold kingdom's tester...." The kind hearted tester for Red Kingdom was poleaxed and flummoxed. "This is highly irregular... You really think she's an out worlder... " He whispered, this was the worst news ever. He could be killed. He very much like to keep his neck intact. What could he say to defuse the situation without coming off as a coward. When he would like to live a little longer.... Out worlder.... Just send out the red flag of death and war. His vision of training a young saint falling to ashes in his mouth. His lower lip quivered. He did not want to die. "Let us reconvene perhaps we can come with a clearer understanding of the child's best interest."

"An out worlder..." The mother whispered fear apparent in her gaze. This was her child it was just moments ago she had given birth. Her child could not touch her birthstone without producing a intense bright light. She was suppose to sleep with it and he told her to hold it at bay what was she to do but go with them.

"Wait... Try this stone it may buy you some time." The Gold kingdom tester produced a gold birthstone. "Try this one perhaps..." He shrugged. His bushy brows thoughtful. "Less bright."

"The meditation room I will get it please let's be more safe about this." The mauve tester frowned he didn't want anymore surprises.