Planets: Chapter Six: Unknown Knowledge (Part Two)

Here you go, Kat?e! I know you've been looking forward to the rest of Chapter Six. I only hope it lives up to your very high expectations. I'm having a harder time with this story now and I'm afraid it's showing. A lot has to happen and I'm not quite so sure how to do it. In any case, like always, comments, questions, and especially suggestions are always appriciated! Enjoy!

Kelsi looked away. “Okay.”
“Thank you,” Caleb walked away as Kelsi closed the door.
Little does he know that I’ve already done just that, Kelsi thought sullenly. Why does he care if I’m angry or not? She shook her head as if she could shake the suspicious thoughts out. What’s wrong with me? One minute I’m yelling at the top of my lungs, the next I’m on the verge of tears. And if that’s not enough, I’m suspecting everyone like I’m some sort of paranoid freak. She crumpled onto the floor, tears streaming down her face. It’s this place. There’s something about it that I can’t quite put my finger on. I feel out of sorts because I feel like I’m being watched and . . . because I have no idea what’s going to happen. I should leave, She thought frantically, before I go crazy here.
“Stop your unsightly, sniveling behavior, Kelsi,” Mistress materialized in the middle of the room, “and save your breath. You aren’t going to leave, I won’t allow it. You can’t run away from your problems your whole life, as if they are the orphanage you stole away from two days ago. Is that really how you want to live your life, running away from everything like a scared rabbit? You have so much potential; you can’t throw your life away, especially since . . .” she trailed off, her eyes gleaming. The gleam was quickly extinguished and replaced with her usual cold look. “Besides, how will you save your dear friend or see your long-lost parents? The only way is if you stay here, with me.”
Kelsi trembled, somehow this didn’t seem like it would end well but what could she do?
“Alright,” she stood up, her legs wobbly. “What do you want me to do?”
Mistress’s eyes glittered as she grabbed a hold of Kelsi’s hand. Suddenly, Kelsi’s bedroom wasn’t there any more and she was back in the room she had been dismissed from earlier today.
“Sit down. We have much to cover before . . . sit down!”
Kelsi quickly sat down and got out a quill. It seemed like a good idea to take notes.
“Listen carefully; I don’t want to repeat myself.
“Long ago there were three planets; sister planets. These three planets were inhabited by mintis, magical beings who could build bridges across space. These bridges connected the three sister planets together. Only mintis with royal blood could cross and build these bridges, although they could take anyone or anything with them. For the most part throughout history, the mintis that could go across the bridge were full blood royals, sometimes a mintis with a little bit of common blood but no more than ten percent, could make it across. Never has anyone made it across with more common blood than that except for you.”
“If the tree planets are magic why isn’t there any magic on Nesserum?” Kelsi quietly asked.
“There was a time when the planets were offered an opportunity to exchange the planets magic for technology. This opportunity was seriously considered and the rulers of the three planets consulted with their subjects on what should be done. The majority of the subjects on Nesserum decided that technology was more important than “old fashioned” magic. All the magical creatures and mintis who wanted to keep their magical abilities fled to the other two planes as the mintis who wanted technology headed to Nesserum. This exchange was not made without a price; all records of magic were wiped from Nesserum, including the minds of the former mintis.”
“What about that book I found? And what about me?”
“You’re not patient,” Mistress sighed angrily.
“I’m sorry, it’s just for so long-” Kelsi began to apologize.
Mistress interrupted. “Be quiet and I will tell you.
“The troubles between the sister planets were not over. In fact, they had only begun. Queen Seirerny found the change of planets unsettling and decided to seek the future of the planet she ruled over, Iulete. She sought a prophetess that was reliable and had advised her in the past. The prophetess gazed into a basin of water and gasped at what she saw. The sight was tremendous; she had seen the end of Iulete and it was in the not so distant future. Even though she tried to break the news gently, the queen, having a weak heart, fainted.
“It was decided immediately to take action. Messengers were sent out across the land to inform the people of the calamity. Checkpoints were set up where royal mintis would take the common people,” Mistress’s nose wrinkled with disgust, “to safety.
“Your mother and father were peasants as I have said before. In fact, they were farmers on Iulete, plowing their fields when they heard the horrible news. In their rush to a checkpoint they must have accidentally forgotten you, their new baby, their only child.”
Kelsi’s eyes widened as she was overcome with grief. Her parents had forgotten her? She struggled to control her emotions, trying to keep the tears that threatened to stream down her face from doing exactly that.
“And me?” Her voice shook dangerously. “Why did I end up on Nesserum?”
“You crossed the bridge. Asleep you dreamt of a golden bridge and decided to cross it. How you made it across safely is beyond me. The bridge from Iulete to Nesserum is very broken down; no one’s cared to repair it. As for the medallion ad the book that you found, very few items survived the switch from magic to technology; those were a few of them. A building survived as well. Your beloved orphanage was once a monastery, the monastery where it was decided that Nesserum would become technology oriented.”
“Why didn’t my parents come and get me from Nesserum?” Kelsi felt her eyes sting with suppressed tears.
“If anyone were to go to Nesserum his or her magic would be taken away in the twinkling of an eye.” Mistress replied unfeelingly. “Your parents weren’t able to cross the bridge anyway and no sane royal would take them even if they wanted go across.”
“What about me? How did I make it to Nesserum without losing my magical abilities? Or did I lose them?” Kelsi decided it was about time the subject was changed. She no longer wanted to talk about the parents that abandoned her.
“You didn’t lose them, surprisingly. The only way I can see that you made it across it that you subconsciously crossed the bridge. Even though you made it across, your body knew that you shouldn’t be there and it put up a protective barrier to keep you safe, forcing you to forget everything magical.”
Suddenly, it all made sense. Why she couldn’t use calculators, why she couldn’t get on the school bus, and all the other infinite things she couldn’t do, it was because she had magic running through her veins. She yawned, realizing for the first that she had been listening to Mistress for several hours now.
“You may leave now. I’m sure tat I’ve answered enough of your pesky questions today,” as soon as Kelsi heard the words she found herself in her own bedroom instead of the “classroom.”
“Sleep well,” Mistress’s voice echoes into the room erieely, causing shiver to run up Kelsi’s spine.
She looked around the room, wondering if there was a draft from an open window. An unshakable chill engulfed her. What had she gotten herself into?
Walking to the window, she checked the latch, making sure that the wooden slats were bolted on the window. She peeked outside before locking it and she found it as creepy as it was beautiful. It was like mostly everything in the huge manor, gorgeous with a slightly disturbing undertone.
Kelsi yawned and her eyes watered. Her brain began to shut down; tiered from the overwhelming amount of information she had received and began to ache in advance from the volumes of knowledge tat today’s information entailed. The bed beckoned to her and se stumbled to it, not minding to her clothes, climbed into its welcoming, comforting embrace. Her eyes closed and she was out before she could even think of the Mistress’s information and the danger it put her in. If only she had known.