Interview

The next day my classes were canceled and me and rahil were sitting on one side of the table in one of our fancy rooms. It was a meeting room for lower nobles and important commoners. It was pretty cool that my father had given me permission to do this thing here. Zhira was out practicing her swordsmanship with soldiers and guards. The list in front of me had 23 names on it. I was planning to do a one on one interview with every single one of them. I wanted to see if anyone had some awesome hidden powers that people from this world can't understand. I was pretty excited like a kid on christmas.

I called the first one in. Two guards and a feeble looking woman in her twenties came walking in. I sent the guards back and told the woman to sit.

" Hello ! What's your name miss ? " I asked.

" Vinzy my lady ! " She bowed.

" It's fine ! You don't have to. Here, take this and relax." I gave her a glass of water.

" Where are you from ? " I asked to ease her in.

" From the town my lady. " She said.

" Do you know about your skill ? " I came directly to the topic.

" Yes, my lady, but I am Anvinsik, " She said.

" Oh yeah ! Show me your stats. If you don't mind. " I didn't know how personal asking people's skills and stuff was here.

" Of course my lady. " She opened her stats and rahil copied it on the paper. She had a skill called - Chakra. It made no sense to me, all I knew is that chakra is something round or some weird energy that's all. I couldn't figure out anything at all. She did some magic skills on my request but yet nothing ! I asked her some other work related questions and let her go.

Another person came in this time without guards. It was a young man maybe in his teen years. He had a skill called - Uba. Another one that I had no idea about whatsoever. I hoped I would get at least one or two of them but people just kept coming with the weirdest of skill names, and my head now was hurting thinking about the most bizarre of reference these names were about. One of them was just a plain killer - a skill named killer !! I didn't even wanna know what that one does. Good thing was that even he didn't know what it did, in his file it was written with big letters not to tell him that word. Killer was pretty common word so I knew the translators must at least know that but no one had told him about it. And like a living irony the guy was the kindest person I had ever met. In our town people really liked him because of his kind personality and witty humor. I was not sure what I was missing here.

Anyway, the 14th candidate came in. It was a girl around mid twenties I guess. She was cute, her hair was in twintails style, light pink and her smile was killer. She came and sat on the chair without a word then suddenly stood up in lightning speed,

" Oh ! I am so sorry my lady ! I sat without permission…!! " She said in one breathe.

" It's fine. Sit down and relax." I said smiling, Rahil gave her a glass of water. I noticed that he was looking at her much more than necessary. Ohoo was she his type ?

" What's your name ? " I asked.

" Christy my lady ! " She said.

" Where are you from, Christy ? " I asked.

" From Kislair my lady, It's a village on the border of Kasar and waccar." She said.

" Ohh ! pretty far. Why do you want this job so far from home ? " I asked.

" I have five sisters, my lady. So my parents told me to find a good job since I can read and write. And I always wanted to live in a big fown !! '' she bit her tongue in the end. I couldn't control myself and laughed a little. She also laughed with me but I saw her cheeks turn red from embarrassment.

" We two are just kids, you don't have to be so nervous. We won't do anything to you even if you lie to us. " I said to calm her down.

" It's not like that my lady. It's just that I am always like this. " She said.

" As you say. Show me your stats if you don't mind, " I said.

" My stats my lady ? But I am anvinsik, " She said.

" You don't want to ? " I asked.

" No, I have no problem showing you my lady, " She said. Then opened her stats. And good grief ! Finally something I could at least make some sense of. Her skill had only one word - Reciprocate.

Now the big bad question was reciprocated but what ? Magicules reciprocate ? Or some kind of feeling manipulation or something ? I had no idea ! I looked at rahil and he was also confused. The girl noticed us and said,

" I have no skill my lady ! I can't even learn anything too ! I was hoping to be a maid or some other work where I wouldn't need a skill, I am sorry. Is skill mandatory here too ? " The way she said it, I guess she has seen a lot of rejection because of her abnormal condition. But not being able to learn anything else too ! That was new…

" Why can't you learn new skills ? " I asked.

" Because of this my lady " She showed the backside of her hand and there was something carved on her skin. A little upper side of her elbow. A tattoo like something. She turned her hand even more and now it was clear a single word was written on her hand - BAN.

" What is this ? " I was fascinated.

" It stops me from learning anything new…." She chanted fireball magic and as she finished instead of fireball her hand glowed red and she almost screamed. I could see the pain on her face. For whatever the reason she was banned from using any magic or skill.

" That's enough. Are you hurt ? " Rahil asked.

" Yes I am fine. '' She said but she was holding her inscribed hand with the other one. I saw another dark weird circle inscribed on her other arm at the same place where ban was on other arm.

" What's that ? " I asked.

" I don't know but it does not hurt, " She said.

" Come here " She came near us and I held her hand in my arms. It was quite smooth and she also smelled really great. It was a shame how this cute girl had to go through so much pain in her life….

It was something her skill depended on. I knew that, if the right one bans her then this left one must be some kind of activation for her skill. I touched it again and again, Rahil did too. It looked like we were poking her from afar, she even giggled saying it tickles. Then an idea came to me: her right hand responds to magic or skill then maybe her left hand does too !

" Okay, I am going to try something, tell me if you feel something, " I said.

" What are you doing ? " Rahil asked.

" Don't worry, just watch…" I almost said, don't worry nothing will happen to your girlfriend.

I took her left hand in my arms and tried to concentrate on manipulating the air a little. It was the hardest element of nature to manipulate, I had to focus like hell, It hurt my head and yet all I could manage was a little breeze. I felt it touching her hands and, exactly as I was hoping the circle on her hand glowed blue. And a little window popped up like a stats screen but smaller. I freed her hand and went behind her to take a good look at her screen. A line was written there with two options showing below yes and no. The line said : [ User detected. Form a contract ? ] Now what was this contract ! But I wanted to see ! I was beyond excited !!

" Touch on yes, " I said.

" Oh ! This thing again, huh ? Did you do something, my lady ? I felt a breeze…" She said super fast.

" Yes I tried to activate your skill, Has this happened before ? Touch the yes button…I don't know what it will do though !! " I explained.

" Yes, every time someone uses healing on me it happens. Uhm…Which one is the yes bottunn !? '' she bit her tongue again. I guess it happens when she's nervous.

" Here this one, " Rahil showed her.

" Okay…I am doing it." She looked at rahil then me. We both nodded and just in case I was ready to make a krigara cage around her or shield us but then a window also popped up in front of me it was same as her. Smaller than the stats window, I was also given two options of yes and no with a sentence on top : [ Do you wish to form a contract with Christina tableworth ] I also pressed yes and what happened shocked me through my core. In front of me was a girl standing who looked exactly like me. Like I was looking at some real life 3D model of myself. I couldn't believe my eyes for a moment. I rubbed them but she was still there looking a little afraid now though.

" Christy you there ? " I asked.

" Yes my lady…" She said in my own voice. I heard the sound of something falling. I turned my head in the direction of sound and Rahil was standing with his mouth open and all his writing things were on ground.

" What are you feeling right now ? " I asked, turning towards her or me.

" Smaller….a lot smaller what is happening to me my lady ? " She said super fast.

" It looks like you turned into me somehow….I think that's your skill." Her expressions were full of confusion and fear. I went near her and checked her out from every side. Her markings were still there and she was covered in clothes too big for her. And holly f*** Wow ! I look super cute somehow ! Saying that about my own self feels weird but it was a totally different feeling then watching myself in mirror.

" Open your stats…" I said.

" Umm..Am I gonna stay like this forever ? What will happen to me ? she asked, all nervous. The expressions looked weird on my own face.

" Don't worry we will figure something out. And nothing will happen to you. Show me your stats so we can understand what's going on " I tried to calm her down. Though even I didn't know what I would do with my body double if she never turned back to normal !! She opened her stats and finally there were some details about her skill. Anvinsik people's skill details only shows when it's activated, I think. It was something like this :

[ Reciprocate - User can use any body that they have formed a contract with ( 30 min per body ) - 700 magnergy for one transformation. ]