The Fae World: Kristen: Waking Up (part 3)

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“Really?” Kristen asked, unable to believe that anything could be that simple. Knowing what she was, what she’d become, would give her a place to start. “Did you have a bag?”

Thane nodded. “The lock picks told me exactly what I was.” The smile he gave her was almost bitter. “Only a couple of new arrivals didn’t have bags, but the majority have and I’ve never known a druid not to.”

“Does that mean I may have swapped places with someone?”

“I don’t know. It’s something I’ve wondered myself, but until I meet someone who’s returned to this world after travelling to another there’s no way I can know one way or another. None of the other travellers from Earth I’ve met know either. Some don’t care. Others are fascinated by the idea and are doing their best to find out one way or another if we have swapped places with someone from this world.”

“What are the people of this world like?”

“Before I got here I’d been playing the game for a couple of weeks, so I thought that would give me an advantage when it came to both the geography and the races of the world.” Thane shrugged. “My guide didn’t warn me, in part because I wasn’t asking the right questions and in part because I was the first new arrival he’d met, but none of them are like the races on the game. We’re the only white race in the planet, so when the first of us was found… I met him and he told me that he was surprised he survived because they all looked at him like he was an enemy, until they found his bag.”

“That was lucky.”

“He had a chance to explain what had happened, but they didn’t believe him until another of us appeared overnight. After that they actually did their best to help him and the other new arrivals, because more appeared as time passed, to learn about the world and become useful members of the society they’d found themselves in. Now, somehow, there’s always one of us in the area when a new arrival appears.”

“You haven’t answered my question, though.”

“The group I’m travelling with is diverse.” Thane bit his lip. “What you need to remember is that this isn’t the game. Even though the world has the same name as that of the world in the game and a lot of the places have the same names, everything is different. My companions asked me to work with them because rogues are rare…” He shook his head. “During the last war several races were almost destroyed and those races were the ones who chose to be rogues, druids, and magic users in general, so our arrival was useful to the races that survived and were still fighting. All the druids I’ve met during my travels had been from Earth.”

“Okay…” Kristen looked at Thane. “Whatever it is you’re trying to avoid telling me I suggest you stop. I want to know what to expect when I meet your travelling companions.”

Mirrored from K. A. Jones Writing.

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