On the other side of the city, in the opposite direction from James's orphanage, was another orphan who resided in a different orphanage. She was a rather short girl with blond hair and green eyes, standing proudly on a small mound so that she could proclaim to the heavens.
-Sarah Pov-
"THIS WORLD SHALL TREMBLE BEFORE ME! FOR I AM THE CHOSEN ONE!" I proclaimed loudly to the sky, not caring for the whispers of the fools who doubted my might.
I am Sarah, the one who rides above the heavens, she who battles both gods and heroes alike!
"The lunatic is monologuing again.."
What! Can they hear my hallowed thoughts, kept secret within my own mind?
"Sarah, you're talking about your thoughts out loud again."
Impossible! I am a perfect being and would never allow such a flaw to be part of me... I see it is not that I am talking outloud but merely I have seemed to have developed telepathy and am broadcasting my thoughts to the other fools near me.
Truly, my own genius even frightens me.
"No, Sarah, your mouth is moving and making sounds to communicate what you're thinking to everyone else.
"Nonsense, Mrs Buddley! It's just my own genius is so full that it leaks into other minds, so they too can see a glimpse into my own talent! How generous and humble of me to allow them to experience what it is like to have a fraction of my talent and genius!"
"Lord, I beg of thee to give me the strength and patience needed to deal with Sarah."
HA, like some old fool in the clouds could be able to handle even the smallest bit of my power! It's only by my truly just and humble character that I allow him even to proclaim that he is allowed to be above me!
"The ego on this child... 'sigh'"
It is not my ego but the very truth in this fabric of reality my brilliance is so vast that it even allows me to trancend death and become alive once more even after my most brilliant death of which included no less than 15 elderitch gods themselves to smite me off of my mortal coil and even then it needed all of them to sacrifice themselves to do such a feat! But alas, even through death, I am triumphant!
"What nonsense is she spouting now..."
"can't believe she passed that sanity test that the doctors gave, although apparently it was barely a pass."
No test could accurately rate my mind; it is the puzzle box the universe runs on!
"That may be the truest thing you've said all day."
What rubbish is this! Everything I say is true, for if I am wrong, i shall just correct reality in its wrong assumptions and correct it so that i am right!"
Anyway, Sarah, I need to go prepare dinner for the others, don't get into or go looking for any trouble, okay?"
"Of course not! trouble will find me how arrogant of you to assume that trouble would have me go look for them, it is trouble who should look for me!"
I don't know why, but Mrs Buddley just sighed and walked off... Why do I not have James here? That fool would make all this much smoother, although he is inferior to myself, he is a cut above the rest of these fools, and knowing him, he would of followed me into the afterlife just because he would wonder what afterlife would accept one like me.
Of course, I would never allow any afterlife to pick me as my soul would create an afterlife just for myself or reincarnate because how dare death try and take me, what arrogance!
Anyway, this universe seems different to my previous one as I can feel a sort of innate energy within myself, and when I tried to push it out, it created quite the disturbance within my room. Making the matrons think I was having some sort of episode.
Now I have been practicing with the energy and found it chaotic and seemingly random in its effects upon usage. which has been, I had to admit, a lot of fun when playing pranks upon the fools I allowed to stay in my room.This energy reminds me of one of those books James was always reading and prattling on to me about, something about a guy named Harrison Peters or something.
Then again, what absurdity that there would be a protagonist in this world that isn't even me?
-James Pov-
I wonder if Sarah is here... I would assume that there would be a likely chance that she would, as we did both die at the same time together after getting hit by what I estimated was 15 escaped predators of varying species, for what odd reason were working together to kill me and Sarah.
Although I wouldnt be suprised if Sarah had somehow infuriated them enough for them to ally with one another and bypass the species limitations and work together in murdering her.
It was quite the unexpected death, but it isn't so bad for the tradeoff is magic that grants opportunities that would of been impossible before and allows me to mold reality.
It would be fun to see how magic works, as when I was reading Harry potter magic worked off of Latin and intent, but never went to specifics in its workings.
My hypothesis with magic is that it works on both beleif and structure one needs to believe that they can do magic, and that is what incantaions are for.
They are a mnemonic to focus one's power through the magical foci, which works in directing magic.
The structure of magic is the rules that sometimes pop up when reading Harry Potter, no transmuting gold no creating food, small rules that hint at some limitations of magic.
But I believe that truly testing these limitations would come when I get into Hogwarts and meet Sarah again. If she truly is here, then there is no one better at seeing how magic works when one has supreme belief in oneself.
Sarah was what some would call a chuninbyo, but it perhaps went even further than that, as back then, it seemed no matter what she did, reality would in some way align with what she thought was the truth.
It truly was bizarre seeing such an unstable person interact with the world in her skewed vision and decide this is how the world is, and then the world following along.
It brought forth many questions about how this was all working
'Is she aware that her luck is abnormal?'
'Does she even know what currency is?'
'Why does fate itself seem to guide her to what she wanted?'
She was the greatest puzzle to solve in our world, so I truly hope with all that there is that she will appear when I get to King's Cross in the future.
I truly am hoping that I will see her again.
For if she is then the entire timeline for Harry Potter will get just a little bit more... intresting.