Series: Magiology
Rating: PG
Summary: Telepaths should not be allowed to be comatose. Ever.
Prompt from Tumblrfiction
ANAMNESIS
She remembered the scent of flowers, sharp and spicy, mixed with the chilly night air and the smell of melting wax. Mother never installed the tall, electric lamps that line the city streets; she preferred to keep the gardens strung with rows of decorative paper lanterns.
Every new moon, when the Mikazuki bloom, she, her sister and her parents would admire the flowers under the candlelight. Mother would dress them in traditional yukatas and they would watch the crimson flowers bloom and attempt to catch fireflies with little nets. They would place a single Mikazuki flower inside a small, glass bottle, for luck, Mother would say and when the night passed and the tiny flower closed, they would dry the flower and keep it in a jar. Every year, the collection of thirteen dried flowers was burned and the ashes placed in a small, silver charm.
“To protect you from evil spirits,” Mother would say as she placed the charm on her bracelet.
Lei Xi’s fingers lingered on Adrian’s wrist and the silver bracelet decorated with ten little charms. The memory was so vivid, and Lei Xi could still see the thin, crimson petals in her mind’s eye.
“This is ridiculous,” she growled.
“Tell me about it.”
Lei Xi raised an eyebrow at her heart brother, who was pacing back and forth on the other side of Adrian’s gurney.
“I’ve been having dreams of hitting a moving target with a kunai twenty meters away. I can’t hit a tree with one of those little knives if it was right in front of me!” Klaide spun a folding chair around and slumped down into it.
“I wonder who else he’s projecting memories into.” Lei Xi sighed and rubbed her temples. “Vinalia, perhaps. And maybe Brother.”
“Doubt it about Arts.” Klaide scooted his chair away as a nurse came and took Adrian’s vitals. “Didn’t he get trained by some telepaths to…” he waved a hand in circles, as his eyes wondered over to the nurse’s body. “Well, resist telepathy?”
Lei Xi nodded. “True enough. Brother hasn’t approached me about this,” she waved a hand over Adrian’s body, “so I suppose he isn’t getting the leak. Hopefully no one else is either.”
Klaide snickered and winked at the nurse as she finished logging Adrian’s vitals. The nurse wrinkled her nose and quickly left the room. Klaide sighed. “Adrian would have a heart attack if he knew he was projecting. That should be motivation enough for him to wake up already.”
Lei Xi smiled a little as she flipped Adrian’s hand over and placed two fingers on his wrist. The steady rhythm of the heart monitor wasn’t as reassuring as the feel of his blood flowing under her fingertips.
“Man, if Adrian doesn’t wake up soon, I think I’ll start developing cravings for that tea jelly thing he loves so much.”
Lei Xi laughed. “Klaide, you hate tea jellies.”
Klaide threw his hands into the air. “Exactly!”
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