[Tadhana]

She stared at the gadget in front of her like a foreign object before figuring out how to input her name and number. The latest technology was usually unknown to her. It took her a while and a little bit of poking, but she finally managed to do it in the end, putting in just her first name in the phonebook entry.

Handing his phone back to him as she took her own back, she flipped it open to see if any of her relations texted back. "I gotta go, it's my brother. He's just around the corner from here." she said. And without really waiting for a reply from him, she gathered up her all her things and left the library to meet her brother Varun.

---------- a few months later ----------

It was a few months since that day in the library and only a matter of a week to go until her 18th birthday. Her turning 18 was pretty much the event of the year for the whole Staynhal family which called for a grand family reunion. Preparations were already underway for her coming of age ritual.

She wasn't about to make a big deal of it as of yet. Let them worry about it for a week, it's their choice to make a huge celebration out of it. Life still went on as normally as life could allow.

During all that time, they still texted each other. How she managed to keep her family from knowing she had ties with a rather notorious Vulcan, she'll never know. Then again, she wasn't all that surprised. They don't ask, she doesn't tell.

But she felt that her aunt Victoria had an inkling of what's going on because her training was harder and more specialized than ever. Instead of the basic meditation and forming training, she was now more being focused on combat and healing magic. It was grueling, soulcrushing and absolutely draining. But somehow, she had grown sufficiently competent with her magic. Maybe all this training was in preparation of something, but for what?

It was evening as she stood at the river's edge a little outside of town, absolutely drenched and tired from training. Dipping her toes into the water, she sighed and tried to relax as she listened to the chirping of the crickets around her. Nowadays, she was just glad to have a moment to herself nowadays.


[[Super sorry, flu knocked me out the whole week. x.o]]