chapter 15 : blurry past?

*a few days later

Alya opened her eyes in a snap, she had fallen asleep without even knowing and it was obvious, that she was tired using mental notes she had stayed up a few days non stop learning magic with Morgana and she remembered nothing a few hours later as she blackout whilst still learning. 

" Don't worry you are safe, it's not as if anyone can just come in here and harm you without our notice " Avera's teasing voice sounded in her ears confirming she was still here , Alya looked around and give a little sigh as everything she in front of her seemed very much real. 

" Where is Morgana? " Alya asked looking around for Morgana who seemed to have disappeared mysteriously from the room which on second look was different from others, it was at least fifteen to twenty feet in length and breath , having shelves on each part of the wall with different book's from different topics and part of life , the arrangement seemed intricate as the room seemed double with another shelf in the middle separating the room into two sections, one part acting like the living room with two couch and a center table made of glass while the other acted like a study with only a table , chair and lamp having a glowbug inside. 

" she had something to do outside " Avera's reply surprised Alya who thought it was a seperate space that was secluded with the aid of magic , having an outside world added would need an insane amount of control and power to maintain it. 

" it's it okay to start our lesson now? " Alya asked, she was aware that her lessons were shared with the both of them , Avera was to teach her rune arcania which is the use of rune outside of the mind , Avera seemed good with it as she pulled different books out of the shelves to meet Alya and all of them seemed very big and it was annoying to even look at in the first place. 

" I'm a very lazy person if you have noticed as you've stayed for the past few days so this lesson would be as quick as possible.. " Avera said as they began the lesson she started explaining the whole concept using the base which Morgana had already laid down . 

From what she had noticed , her first partial succession of the spell that she did for Morgana was something similar, it only lacked a core for it to be utilized, the rune arcania base form is known as an array , a simple or complex arrangements of runes in certain patterns and currently they are an almost infinite number of patterns that can be utilized , it's the proper arrangements of these runes and patterns that the effects they give differ. 

After she was done with the explanation she turned off like always also leaving her with a question that she needed an answer to " Where is her real body " She thought about it for a while before bringing her focus back to her assignment which held more value than the question she was asking herself. 

As she went on she noticed that it was very broad in length and required a lot of things that for it to work an example is that it relied on one's mental essence instead of manner for it to work, mental essence is similar to Mana only that it relied to ones mind to be able to create it and it is what is used by witches and other spiritualist for their main source of power with a down side of being very, very difficult to handle even more than Mana and aura so it is very hard to see anyone practicing it but when one goes through the training and succeeds they are most times a powerful force to reckon with. 

The stronger ones mind is the stronger the array they they can create, that means she had to cultivate her mind to be able to use it, if she wasn't wrong she was most definitely in the first stage which can handle one ring arrays, a few hours had already gone by in another flash and she barely even noticed, it was only when she raised her eyes to look at clock on a shelf close to her did she notice, she wanted to go back to training her magic but it the arcania aaa very intriguing and annoying at the same time making it hard to leave , she decided to dwell in it further,

since she tried it before she decided to get at it again, but it was difficult to do so since the base or core happened to be an obstacle for her to go through, she went through every single book she was given trying to understand the logic behind the core and it came to her a few while later. 

The array needs a source of power and control when it's been in use, and this happened to be the casters mind and body except the array being used is a stationary array which on the other hand needed another "brain box" As she could describe it as, she reasoned for a while before going into work bringing together many runes on paper drawing them in many patterns which showed no sign of working for the time being, 

With each try she did on paper she infused it with mental essence trying to see the results which were sometimes explosions which ranged from smoke screens to actual explosions which in hurt her really badly and she hated it but she didn't have any other options as she continued on trial and error which was a bases she used for her investigation. 

It took a longer while than when she was learning magic with Morgana maybe because she was with her with almost all the steps and mistakes that she was making and although that was beneficial for her it was really holding her back in some sense which she tried to make sense of but it was getting her more confused. 

" I recommend you go to sleep, stressing yourself will do no good " Morgana's voice sounded behind her almost startling her to death, " No I'm good " Alya replied as she continued on her work " I'll recommend that you do it before I knock you out " Morgana said in a low threatening tone, " I knew something was wrong , I can't just blank out like that " Alya turned to Morgana with an annoyed gaze as she confirmed her suspicion. seeing this Morgana laughed at her outburst as she looked like a child throwing a tantrum, because she was a child compared to Morgana in age.

Alya seeing this couldn't say anything as she would find it funny so she decided to go back to what she was doing " I need to at least get be able to manifest a level 1 array before I can rest easy " Alya said with her back to Morgana as she continued just then she heard a weird question. 

" It's supposed to be easy considering the fact that your world had something similar in somewhat ways sometimes shown as movies or what was it called again… anime? Yes " those words shocked her as she heard them as her thought raced to many part, she tried to think about what to say that was when the worst happened, she noticed her memories of the past world was scattered most part she noticed was blurred for some reason and the memories of Alya was somehow overriding everything, she had noticed this but never gave it much thought and now she noticed and worst still in a position that she needed an answer. 

" I know you are a little confused, let me fix that little problem " Morgana's voice sounded close to Alya who froze up completely , not being able to move a finger as if being held in place by a mysterious force " This might hurt a little " Those words alone scared the shit out of her followed by an intense influx of pain that caused her to scream but obviously it didn't matter.