Going Home
Prologue: part 1
I just finished reading the journal that was given by my mother just before she sacrificed herself so that I could escape from our captors. It had told the story of a troubled young man and what had happened to him.
It had all started nineteen years ago, just a year before I was born.
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A lone figure hiked up the side of the mountain, finally finding the training ground that he had seen two years ago when he had come through here with his father. After setting up camp he cursed the rain that meant that he was currently a she, but that was a part of the reason the he had come up here in the first place. He had found a scroll that contained a chi technique that held a possible way to control the curse. Judging by the amount of light he figured that he had several hours before dark, enough time to do a full power test of the technique that he'd been working on since he found the scroll a few weeks after the wedding fiasco.
Sitting there meditating he looked deep within himself and just as he had seen several times before his chi formed two distinct nodes inside of himself. One female and one male, and just as the scroll instructed he began drawing on both simultaneously and began weaving them into an intricate construct inside of himself. As he neared completion he felt the pattern begin to resonate, and as he pushed the last of his chi into the pattern the whole world went white.
He woke up the next morning to find that he was still female and that his camp was now in a different clearing. He could tell because first of all the trees were all a differently color and also the ground was completely dry as if it had not rained in a week or two. And then he looked up, and nearly passed out. The sky was a light purple and the sun that showed that it was a few hours after sunrise was red.
He sat down hard and began to heat up some water to change back. As he sat there he considered that of all the ways to get out of the engagement mess, something like this had always been at the bottom of the list of possibilities. He had never really expected it to happen. He picked up the kettle and tested the water with a finger to make sure it was hot enough. As he poured it over his head he began to panic when he did not feel the change. After two more pots of water and a deep look into his chi it was confirmed. He was now truly female...
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Author's notes:
Well I got a wild hair and here are the results, I am working on the rest of the prologue and after I finish that I may get started on the first chapter. I should have the rest of the prologue up by the end of the week hopefully sooner.
Until then,
Ghent Johanson
ghent879 at yahoo.com
