Chapter 4: Swimming in circles

Chapter 4: Swimming in circles

Like a fish in a bowl, I'm swimming in circles.

More accurately I'm rolling around and floating about but my new life has become a little bit repetitive. Unfortunately, unlike a fish my memory is lasting a little longer than 3 seconds and without any bright new ideas I'm left with a lot of navel gazing.

In my case, an excessive comtemplation of the new addition to life as I know it, my stats.

Looking at my stats again, now that I am level 3 I have 30 free points and I know that what I am going to be spending a few of my points on is my vitality. 30 points does not sound like a lot of health but when my vitality naturally went up to 3 as I grew my health went up to 30. So that’s where I want to put my points at the moment.

But the question I keep circling back to as always is how would that affect my growth, how would that affect my mother and how would it affect me?

Probably best to leave it alone for now but if it ever starts dipping that’s a 300 health lifeline. Still again I don’t know how much rope that will actually get me or whether that will just be a drop in the ocean.

Back to counting, listening and meditating.

Or swimming in circles.

According to my time sense skill I’ve been awake for a week now. I’m more aware now I have my two skills, one for tracking time and my meditation but now that I’ve finally got the skill I’m sensing something else.The initial posting of this chapter occurred via Ñøv€l-B!n.

When meditating and after clearing my mind I can feel a heat, a pressure it is difficult to describe but it seems to come from both inside and outside. It is different to the warmth of being surrounded by amniotic fluid and the pressure holding me. Beyond those feelings there is a tingling, a sense of static, something I can almost see even with my eyes closed. Based on the fact that there is a stat for magic I think that this must be it, the magic, mana, force of this universe. How cool is that?

I might be swimming in circles but I'm floating in Magic.

My Vitality, Endurance, Strength and Dexterity have continued to grow as I have, slowly. Where I have seen a bigger improvement is in my senses and mind the two things that I have been able to exercise and gain skills with. Maybe if I focus on feeling this new sensation I will be able to start improving my Magic at a greater speed too.

It feels a little like the sun on your skin and a warm bowl of soup at the same time. It is both external and internal. Obviously, it is being produced by myself to have the 20 mana that I do as well as being produced by my mother which is maybe why I can feel it inside and outside at the same time. But it is more than that.

I may never level again as quickly as I have here on my first few levels, with the increasing experience required for each level and the increasing time required to gain each skill up. But hopefully slow and steady wins the race. Moreover, I've concievably started the race before being born.

Level: 3 Experience: 500/800 Age: 7 days

Health: 30/30 Stamina: 23/23 Mana 30/30

Vitality: 3

Endurance: 2

Strength: 2

Dexterity: 2

Senses: 5

Mind 49

Clarity: 3

Magic: 3

Free Points: 30

Skills: Time sense (LV 4) Listening (LV 3) Meditation (LV 2) Mana sense (LV 1) Swimming (LV 1)

Does anyone even know I'm in here?