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Aura


The Angelic Clawsion
Owner: boy

Age: 2 years, 6 months, 1 week

Born: September 20th, 2021

Adopted: 2 years, 6 months, 1 week ago

Adopted: September 20th, 2021

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  • Level: 1
     
  • Strength: 10
     
  • Defense: 10
     
  • Speed: 10
     
  • Health: 10
     
  • HP: 10/10
     
  • Intelligence: 0
     
  • Books Read: 0
  • Food Eaten: 0
  • Job: Unemployed




by Omen
They slide a file across the table, hand me a digital swipe key–for the lab, I presume. Opening the manila folder, I leaf through its dryly written contents; each page has a bold caps-locked header about the utmost confidentiality of the military project.

The hand clasps my shoulder, a little over-familiar. “Dr. Leighann, welcome to Project Apollonia; we’ve been looking for a cosmologist of your caliber for a while. Your recent work on altered gravity fields was truly remarkable. We’re glad to have you onboard.”

I smile tensely as I press my thumb onto the tactile pad of the swipe key; the key whirs in recognition of my finger print. “I’m thrilled to join the team.” There’s a touch of nerves in my acceptance.

“Are you aware of the compound protocol?” The suited man asks it a little too coolly, like he assumes the answer is no.

“Yes.” I sit up a little straighter, give a stern nod. “My last government project was similarly confidential. I’d love to know, though: how many higher-ups am I answering to on this endeavor? What’s my clearance level?”

“My, Dr. Leighann–cutting to the chase, huh? Almost no one.” The government official leans back in his chair, raises an incredulous eyebrow. “You’ll be one of the highest ranking officials in the entire compound, only one higher ranking scientist–maximum clearance for you, dear.”

I inwardly seethe at his patronizing tone, but keep my composure. “Delightful. That is excellent to know.”

“So doc, are you ready to save the world?” He says it amusedly, subtly entertained.

“Sure.” I give him a shrug. “Why wouldn’t I be?”

He gives me a stiff nod before standing to leave, motions for the security detail to follow him out.

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀


Who knows where we are.

We eat, live and breathe this project. The morning starts in the compound, the day is lived in the compound, we end the day sleeping in the compound.

We’re struggling to find a breakthrough, floundering through scientific measures and analyses that get us nowhere.

What a way to work on saving the world.

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀


“It’s a miracle I’m still awake.” I yawn my way through the cosmological trajectory trace diagram; the whole team looks as disheveled and bedraggled as I do. “Have we thought about analyzing miracles?”

Our small team swivels to look at me like I shot down to Earth on a rogue cosmic body–all shock and awe and confusion.

Thaumaturgy?” One of the younger scientists unhelpfully pipes up. “That’s the study of a madman.”

“Any of y’all have better ideas on further investigations? We’re going in circles, over and over and over again.” I try to rub the sleep out of my eyes. It doesn’t seem to want to budge; if anything, it’s burrowing deeper. “Any of you?”

“We’re here to study weaponry advancement, not track freak incidents like a wild goose chase. We need consistency, not anomaly–I’m not going to allot resources to quackery.” The head of the project–Dr. Martin Krinsky, renowned physicist–looks at me with obvious contempt.
“Something will come.”

“That’s what we said last month, the month before that, and the entire year before that.” I mutter under my breath. Can’t believe I used to believe him.

“Leighann, don’t make me write you up for insubordination.” Martin barks the words out at me. “You’re on my last goddamn nerve.”

Whole project’s on my last nerve. I aggravatedly punch numbers into the program, scribble down out my outputs before entering a new set of coordinates and dates.

“Our work isn’t about exciting–it’s about advancing human interest.” He sighs, a huffy exhale of exasperation. “It’s about being invested in the greater good.”

For crying out loud, he’s so drunk on his own gravitas that he could project his own altered field.
I let it rest, hold my tongue–
–but I’m already plotting, ideas coming hot and fast.

You better believe I’m taking that maximum clearance to its maximum.

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀


She risked it all–the cosmologist who believed in miracles.
She secreted away what she needed from PROJECT: Apollonia, conducted her independent studies
… and, in time, glimpsed the heart of miracles itself.
From it, she pled for eternal powers of protection, those she could call upon in Earth’s time of need.

. . .

It listened.
It reached into her core, reprogrammed the whole of her being.
It gave her what she wished for, burned her mission into her miracle.
She knows all now: all but who she once was.

☀ ☀ ☀ ☀


The Entity is all-knowing.

She stands bright against the dark expanse of the cosmos, a figure of light shining within the Sun; its corona wraps her in an entrancing aura, its rays brilliant around her. She stands with her arm outreached into the unknown. Her hand is open, fingers splayed in a gesture of shielding.
She watches. She waits.

She knows something is coming–some great threat to mankind, for the universe they live in. Deep down, she fears it herself, yet remains at the ready.
They mustn’t see her fear.
They mustn’t see her waver.

She stands strong and brave–a protectress against the Great Dark, that great expanse of the universe. She has warded off the great cosmic rains, hordes of enterprising otherworlders, the eldritch beasts of the unknown–
No matter what comes, she is resolute.
Yet, at her core, a being blooms within her hidden vulnerability: one unbeknownst to her all-seeing eye–whether in simple ignorance or willful blindness will remain an eternal question.

The Child: the observer to her protector. He is so innocent, so naive–one who loves the simplicity of life, one who loves mankind in the ways she cannot.

He is... the boy beind the

Aura.





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