chapter 3

The next day I found a room that seemed to be a study, and I practically glowed in excitement. It was a little lacking, there were few books, a small wood desk in the far right corner and overall the room was rather cramped.

I plucked out the closest book I could reach and the title read "The twelve liberators of the inter species war". I noticed that the letters were a more cursive version of my old worlds, however what really peaked my attention was the phrase "inter species". What I learned was there was a war that occurred almost 1000 years ago that lasted for 100 years. And while the war has now ended the races were less than comfortable with each other.

Next, I found out, other than humans, dwarf and elf kin share this continent known as Trodius. Thirdly the mentioned "twelve liberators" represents the number of noble families. There are six human families, three elf and three dwarf families.

These twelve were the current heads of their respective families and put forth the idea of ending the war, to which most of the citizens agreed. Despite royal objection, people were tired of the war and even royalty couldn't distegard the power these twelve individuals held, thus ending the war, albeit begrudgingly. 'Despite the tension, peace is still here' I smirked.

It was then that my mother walked in, clearly looking for me, and when I was noticed she gasped at the sight of me sat down with an open book in front of me in the floor.

"Eli those aren't toys" she scolded with a playful tone while wagging her forefinger. 'Crap, I'm still technically four months old'. After giggling for a little she placed the book back on the bottom shelf, picked me up and took me out of the room, closing the door fully behind us ending with a click. 'Damn I can't get in with the door fully closed. If I knew this was going to happen I would've read a book about magic not give myself a damn history lesson!', as that thought passed a scowl crawled across my face.

I don't know how I remained sane for the next year. Between the teething, not being able to read, no internet access and the mental age of a 15 year old, you know where I'm going with that, it was hell. I had to learn to suppress such thoughts. But what was so much harder, were the random bouts of self deprecation, hate and thoughts of " someone like me doesn't deserve a chance like this ". These thoughts seemingly came out of nowhere and my body wasn't at the age to produce pubescent hormones.

What was even more curious, my memories feel like they're shrouded in fog, all I know is I had a family in which I was the oldest, and i was academically talented. I couldn't even remember the faces of my family, conversations were muffled, hell I didn't even know what I did for fun. So I was left with not knowing who I was. The only face I could remember was my own and every time I looked upon it more self deprecating thoughts ate away at me.

'What the hell is happening to me...'

Ignoring all this for now, watching dad and Ella train together was my only form of entertainment, and was rather informative, between the discharging of lighting and, very rarely, elements like fire and earth, to the strenuous movements of the sword spars which mother would occasionally participate in, it was a spectacle to behold. However the training never lasted much more than 2 hours, so I was quickly left in boredom. The day both mine and Ella's birthday passed was rather pleasant. I ate a slice of cake and received a soft ball that me and mother would roll around, but that got boring quickly. Ella on the other hand received a long sword a little bigger than 70cm.

How.Ever. I could finally communicate enough to get my intentions across, which included my willingness to read, so I approached my mother with pride as I could finally walk, I stated "mama.... books please". My voice came out more shyly than I intended and as she turned to look at me I lowered my gaze and held my hands behind my back.

"Aww, okay Eli, I'll read to you" she answered, and with that I grasped her hand as we walked to the study.

"Alright Eli, which book shall I read?" she questioned upon entry, however I was already scanning a book with a title similar to "the basics of magic" and found it on the third shelf of the book case. "mana theory- for beginners". My arm snapped in the books direction. "Are you sure? It's very difficult to understand." she replied with concern. Already assuming this would happen I nodded my head furiously. With that she pulled the book off the shelf and began.

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sorry for taking so long, been stressed with school I'll do my best to upload more.