Juggling Relics

"What do the words mean? Ignotus I know you can hear me." Nana stood at her desk with a singular light left on, "Come out you creepy bastard! It's not nice to stalk women by staying inside their head."

"What do you want." Ignotus replied in a monotonous tone.

"Wow, you can actually hear me, didn't expect that to go somewhere." Nana had the book laid out on her desk, all the pages were scribbled in a text that Nana couldn't read, "You're old right? You can read this."

"Thanks for calling me old, definitely will help you." Ignotus replied sarcastically.

"Honestly, what's wrong with you? Are you on your period? Do celestial magical beings have periods?" Nana joked. Suddenly, she felt a slap across her face.

"I can still touch you without leaving your mind." Ignotus reminded.

"You're so perverted, touching girls." Nana joked, she had a smug look on her face as another slap went across her face, "Okay I'm sorry this time. I swear, just help me with this."

"No." Ignotus had taken a stand, "Helping you will be against my purpose as a familiar. You don't have a soul."

"So what? What if I don't have a soul? I feel pretty soulful if you ask me." Nana stood up from her desk, "What do you want me to do to prove it?"

"Kill yourself." Ignotus replied.

"Nows not the time for death threats, we can do that after I regain my soul." Nana put her hand on her chest, "I promise you, I am not a Dicere. I am a human."

"No, literally. Kill yourself." Ignotus was serious, "A Dicere's only goal is to consume magic of others and regain their once human body. Diceres are made when a human meets an early demise, their body still latching onto the human realm. Their consciousness split into 2 and forming Diceres. You've probably never seen a Dicere before in your life only because they're invisible to the untrained eye. So prove to me that you're not a Dicere by killing yourself."

"Well, that's a hard request to fulfill isn't it" Nana was half joking, "You don't actually expect me to kill myself, do you?" Nana heard nothing, "Damn cretin." She closed the book and turned off the light, "Why'd you go chucking me into the future and right before the exam? Crazy ass book." She stared at the calendar hung on Lin's side of the room, a photo of him and Nana when they were younger pinned onto the calendar with the words 'Frenz 4 ever' written in marker.

-----Scene 2-----

"Good morning Lin!" Nana was ecstatic, like a kid during Christmas morning, waiting to open their presents, "TODAYS THE EXAM!!!" She screamed in Lin's face.

"Calm down, I haven't even done my hair." Lin's eyes were still closed as he awoke, "How long have you been staring at me, waiting for me to wake up?"

"About 18 minutes." Nana answered creepily quickly, "I couldn't sleep all night."

"Well okay owl, as long as you have enough energy for today." Lin climbed down his bunk bed and took the coat he hung on his side of the room, "I'm surprised you couldn't sleep, aren't you always the first to sleep?"

"Well yeah, but today's just such a big occasion. We get to become real sorcerers!" Nana followed Lin across his side of the room, "Think of all the money we'll earn as professional sorcerers." Her eyes lit up with a money sign in her eyes.

"Yeah yeah, besides, we have to get a good grade in the first place." Lin poured a cup of juice, "And I doubt you'll get a good grade," Lin drank the juice that he just poured out.

Nana punched Lin's gut, Lin spitting the juice all over the floor. "We'll see."

"You're freakishly strong." Lin sat in a fetal position on the floor right after he'd been punched.

"We better get going before we're late, the exam starts at 1 pm." Lin looked at her little clock she kept in her pocket, "And its already 10 pm!"

"No Nana, you're looking at it upside down." Lin got up from the floor and flipped the clock in her hand.

"Oh, so that's why I'm always late." Nana looked closer at the clock, "It's only 10 am? Aw."

"Sometimes your stupidity amazes me." Lin scoffs as he took another sip of his drink.

Nana punched Lin's gut again, making sure to aim for the same spot, Lin spitting out the juice again on the floor.

"Can you not?" Lin groaned in pain as he lied on the floor in the same fetal position.

"Hey have you seen Jasper? The kid with brown scruffy hair, you saw him a couple days ago." Nana asked Lin.

"Oh Jasper?" Lin got up, "No, he hasn't been to class since, he's apparently not allowed to go to his own brother's funeral as he's shunned from his family."

"Oh, do you know which wing he's from? I want to talk to him." Nana asked Lin.

"Wing B? Not sure, why do you want to see him so much? Let the kid mourn, someone's got a crush." Lin teased as he took another sip of the drink, "I'm just going to say I'm sorry in advance, don't punch me in the gut."

Nana did so anyway. "See you at the exam, don't be late. Also I'd clear the juice on the floor if I were you."

"Yeah...I will" Lin was crawled up on the floor, his hand clutching his gut.

-----Scene 3-----

"Hello? Anyone there? Jasper are you home?" Nana knocked on the door with a giant golden plate that had Jasper's name on it.

"Could I help you?" Another student approached Nana, "Jasper hasn't been to his dorm in several days, we don't know where he's at, if you have anything for him you can tell me, I'll tell him when he's back."

"And who are you? Jasper's lackie?" Nana stared.

"Oh, pardon my rudeness. My names Anais, Anais Fullerman." Anais reached his hand out for a handshake, "And you are?"

"The names Nana, don't ask for my family name." Nana shook Anais' hand.

"So, anything you need?" Anais asked.

"Oh nothing, I just wanted to ask him about this." Nana pulled out an orb from her pocket, she had slipped it into her pocket when Mika pulled her into the mirror, "I heard Jasper's an engineer in magical relics."

"Where did you get that from." Anais had put on a very serious tone, as if scared.

"Oh, someone gave it to me." Nana put the orb close to her eye, "I can see several yous." Nana chuckled, "You wanna see it?" Nana offered Anais to hold it.

Anais quickly backed away quickly, away from the orb, "Who gave it to you."

"Some sketchy lady." Nana continued playing with the orb, "It is oddly heavy."

"Nana, I don't think you understand how precious the orb you're holding is." Anais came closer, "This is a fully charged orb of revelation."

"Oh right yeah, that lady did mention something about an orb of rebel lotion or something" Nana started juggling with the orb, "It is fun, it's also oddly heavy." Suddenly, the orb slipped from her hand and dropped onto the floor. Both of them expecting the orb to crack and make a large bang sound as it was made of glass but it simply crashed through the wooden floor.

"Huh, we should probably cover this whole with a rug or something." Nana picked up the orb, "Woah it's hot."

"That's cause its fully loaded, its waiting for a host to latch on." Anais explained, "A person can't use an orb unless their souls are completely pure. If a person's soul is completely pure their eyes reflect white in the orb."

Nana held it the orb in her hands, through the glass exterior of the orb she could see her own reflection, only her eyes were completely black.