Ria's Journal

Asteroid Harvest

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Downtime

Time on the Gun range and talking to Apa.

"It feels really heavy" Ria complains a bit. She holds the pistol and looks down the range.

"It should It's a serious weapon."

Ria looks over at Spark.

Reaches out. They are focused, calm. Not malicious.

Ria breaths. Then aims down the scope.

"Breath in, then let out half way. Then hold."

Ria breathed in. Release. Hold. Fire.

She clipped the shoulder of the target. The gun hurt in her hand.

"Ouch."

"Yeah, that's recoil. You need to be braced for it. Here, let me show you a shooting stance, and how to hold your arms."

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Ria sits with Apa. Apa feels guilty. Worried. A lot of things really.

The house was full of new emotions to Ria's newly awakened sense.

"Apa. You took me... From the Biogenetics?"

Apa is sad.

"From a lab. It was hard. I thought I got away with it. I carved a hole where my stomach usually was. Then I gave you a drug to keep you quiet, and put you in. I did some ... other things to hide it."

Ria knew it was true. She always knew that she was... That she came into the family.... That she was different.

She had more questions ... But it was too much.

"How..."

Ria's voice breaks.

"... Did you know what I could do?"

Apa frowns.

"I suspected. I knew that you needed... different foods, nutrients for it to grow. So I kept that from you. Hoping it would stay under wraps. Until you were old enough to hide it... But it seems we were found."

Ria tears up. She stops being able to speaks.

Apa notices.

"Ria.. Alexandria, sweethearts, it's okay. I'm so sorry. I wish I could have protected you better. Know that I did this because I love you. I wanted you to have a full life."

Apa tears up as they take Ria in their arms. An action they have done many times in the 9 years since they stole her away and gave her a name and a family.

"Shhh. It's okay love. You're safe. You are my daughter, and we love you."

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Revenant

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Downtime

Ria discovers a new ability

Ria feels the stares. Her senses have kept growing. Appa had been talking to command. Getting some medicine for her. It would make it easier for her to survive contracts.

But it didn't make this easier.

The kids around her in class watch her.

Curious, worried. Some scared. Too many are scared.

When she turns her eyes to them, they pretend they weren't paying attention.

Ria scowls.

She had always liked attention. Not like this. Not the escaped test subject. Not someone who didn't belong.

The bell rings.

Ria grabs her bag.

Her body has been growing, and she is much faster than other girls her age now. She could make it before there is a crowd, and

"Oh Ria, stay behind for a moment."

Oh no.

Ria watches Miss. Gramdel. She is nervous. Sad. A bit of embarrassment and shame.

Her heart drops further.

"Hey Ria....

So... me and the other teachers have been talking... and with your new...."

She searches for words. Ria can't stand it. What is happening? She focuses on her mind. Trying to get a deeper read.

"Well. With your new job, we were thinking that it doesn't make as much sense for you to be in the same classes as the other kids."

Gramdel is boring. She likes children, but doesn't respect them. Likes things orderly. Ria reaches out further.

Something clicks.

"So, we have been working with C&C to ..."

Gramdel stops. Notcing the light coming Ria's eyes.

"Ria, what are you do...."

Then Ria is in her mind.

It is too much. Flashed of a life. A divorce, funerals. Anger, pain. All impressing themselves into Ria's mind.

Too much.

And she isn't just feeling, she is touching.

Breaking.

She can feel her mind. It is already breaking.

Oh. OH NO. Stop! Please stop

She can't make it stop. But she can shape how it breaks.

uhhh... Maybe good things. Make her care about kids more. Respect them.

She shapes Miss. Gramdel's mind. Using the last of her energy before she falls back, exhausted.

"Ria are you alright? Do you need to go to the nurse?"

Ria shudders a bit, and dodges Miss. Gramdel's hands as she runs.