Chapter 76 Rent free

Chapter 76 Rent free

Raven awoke from her nightmare as a man she had slowly grown to not fear stabbed her in the chest causing her powers to run out of control. As she was about to attack the man who was clearly in league with her father she was pulled into a vortex and ended up somewhere else. Before her was a white void with nothing around.

It reminded her of her own mental space. It was like the one the high priest Azar taught her to make when she was a child. The one where she would store her emotions so her powers wouldn’t go out of control. The door drew to her. She felt an almost unnatural pull towards the room that she didn’t go against. As she opened the door, blaring loud music began to play while strobe lights blasted changing bright colors as the man who betrayed her ran around the room.

Shouting over the music the man spoke. “Sorry! I forgot to turn off my mental defenses! Give me a sec!” The music had an unnatural pull to it that made her want to dance. “DANCE DANCE TILL YOUR DEAD!” Slowly with her head bobbing, she began to dance to the music. What she considered dancing was her mostly flailing her arms around. The man stopped trying to deactivate the defenses and instead, it became full of different people dancing in different ways.

He began to coach her on how to do some of the moves. She very much liked the rave dancing moves and began to focus on learning those over the other ones. The thing with rave dancing is it left her hands mostly free so she began to flail them like she had when she was just dancing by feel. Moving around and flailing her arms as the man tried to match her she ended up punching him right in the mouth.

For a moment she thought the man was going to be mad at her. Since she’s entered this area her empathy control didn’t let her know what the man was thinking. Actually, she had never recalled what the man felt emotionally before. She hadn’t noticed the thing until what she assumed was a scowl from being struck turned into a bloody-toothed grin. He began dancing like a maniac like her and as her heart raced she realized how much she loved dancing.

For that single moment, she had true happiness. Then it came crashing down when she realized what emotion she just felt and tried to seal it away again. The man cut her off. “Nope, do not do that. I didn’t unseal your emotions just for you to seal them back up again.” Raven pleaded with the man now. “I need to keep my emotions under control or I’ll lose control of my powers.”

The man looked at her like she was speaking complete nonsense. “Yeah because you were controlling your powers so well before. The person who taught you made you seal your emotions so you’d be easier to control and less powerful. If you never limit yourself in the first place you’d have total control over your powers by now and there’d be no chance of them rampaging like they are.”

She started to shift back to gray before she let out a single laugh. “Heh.” The single laugh became a chuckle. “Hehe, hehehe.” Then it became hysterical laughing. “Hahahahaha.” With tears in her eyes, she laughed so hard she struggled to breathe. I proceeded to throw water on her laughter as I said. “The person who taught you did so in a way to cripple your potential.” Almost immediately her laughing cut off as she began to cry. Quietly crying I continue.

“To be fair she probably didn’t really mean to do it. Most people are absolutely terrible at magic and I doubt she was any different. Having a mantra-based magic system tied to belief and using lack of emotions as a power source is insanely short-sighted. You’d probably have better luck casting spells chanting 'That's so Raven.' instead of 'Azarath metrion zinthos.'”

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