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Anna was a short child, a little below average for her age, but she had been growing taller recently. Her lighter brown eyes showed a wide variety of emotions. She definitely had her parent’s features, but there were some people whose features she didn’t share, her own souls.

It had been a couple of months since they properly were able to control their mana.

“What is happening to us?” White muttered, staring at Red when she made her comment.

“What ya talking about?”

“Red, look at you!” White pointed at Red’s soul figure. “You look nothing like initially did when we first awoke.”

“I wouldn’t say nothing.” Red rested her small head on her fist.

There were a few topics the three of them didn’t talk about. The biggest two were their pasts and Red’s changing appearance.

These weren’t talked about for two different reasons. Most topics they didn’t talk about did as well. These were either something they considered private or they were afraid of the answer, or the third option in Red’s case, she considered it was unimportant.

Red’s current figure–which hadn’t changed in over a month–now looked extremely similar to their body’s Anna appearance.

Similar in stature, but a little taller, with some amount of muscles instead of skinny limbs, and bright red eyes and hair. Her hair as well was a bit more messy than Anna’s, which stayed down relatively easily, Red’s hair spiked up in random places.

White replied, “Okay, well then. You barely even look like your previous life.”

“Like I said before, I don’t really care, past life is past.” Red shrugged her hands into the air.

Her unconcerned nature caused White to snap, “But why is this even happening?!” White declared–fear was felt in her aura.

Then an unexpected voice, Lilly spoke, entering the conversation, “The soul reflects the body and the body reflects the soul.”

“What…?” Said Red, turning to face Lilly.

Lilly looked down into the pool, breaking eye contact, “The soul reflects the body… and the body reflects the… soul.” She tapped the side of the pool, “As time progresses, the soul reflects the body, which is why we appeared as what we looked like in our previous life… and why we still have our attributes… they were imprinted onto our souls.” Lilly’s eyes darkened and slithering gloom was felt between White and Red, it didn’t last long however, as Lilly continued speaking, “It’s also the reason our current body can use our past life attributes, even if there is some restriction. During the time the body hadn’t formed its own attribute, the souls imprinted theirs onto it. Maybe this has happened before, not multiple people in one body thing, but if a soul isn’t 100% cleansed, influences of past attributes could affect the body…”

Lilly who realised she was rambling quickly shut up, “This is all my theory anyway… based on… everything we have experienced.” She dipped her finger into the pool and swirled it around, “I’m probably wrong on… a few things though.”

Lilly’s monologue managed to calm down White a bit, “...So is it confirmed that we will change…?” Lilly could only look down and shrug, White continued, “Why has it only happened to Red? Please don’t just because she was the oldest or something similar?”

“Does being in the pool cause our, what’s it called? Soul figure, to look like our body?”

Red suggested, “I’m in here a lot.”

White looked into the pool, “I am going to start changing as well then?”

Lilly replied, “Maybe… you have shrunk slightly…”

“What…?” White mouth widened.

“You are shorter than when we first arrived… not by much.”

Red looked up and down White’s figure upon Lilly’s statement; she didn’t notice originally, but parts of White’s clothes had changed to be a bit more loose as well, and the symbols of her church had long since vanished–that was something Red did notice.

“I only noticed the holy markings disappearing off my uniform and my clothes changing…”

Lilly said, “I don’t think it is because of the pool…even if you aren’t in it as much as Red… there isn’t a wide gap…”

“So we don’t know the reason I changed? Besides soul body mumbo jumbo.”

Lilly answered, “No…”

“No ideas at all?”

“Some… but I don’t…” Lilly stayed silent.

Red waved, “I get it, topic closed.” She spun around on her butt and dipped her legs into the pool. “But hey Lilly. Because you mentioned the body and soul stuff, and our current attributes are because of our past life,” Red’s eyes brightened. “So does that mean we could potentially have one or two more gifts?”

“Maybe…?” Lilly replied, “But I wouldn’t count on it… as I said, the soul reflects the body… and the body reflects the soul… but in our case, I think our souls are fully developed.”

“...What is that supposed to mean…?” Red asked, and White’s eyes perked up hearing a new term.

“...Something I made up… but think about it, if the body had its own attribute, it would have appeared already, remember attributes aren’t just genetic, they do influence it, but that is all. So in our case, the five attributes we have should be it.”

“Huh, disappointing.”

White who had been silent for a moment, looked to the void above them and asked, “What are we… Why are we even here?”

“Asking the big question now.” Mocked Red.

“Of course, tis not a problem for you not knowing how all this–” White waved her arms around even the void, “–Even happened?”

“A mistake?”

“Huh?”

“What? It’s clearly not human input, from the hints I got, the three of us lived in different parts of the world.”

“Then it must be something higher which caused it.”

“Are you really saying that?” Red looked shocked, “You were the last person I thought who would talk about God's big plan.”

“...” White stayed silent, her eyes widening.

With White quiet, Red turned back to Lilly, “Lilly, what do you think? God or accident.”

“...Mistake…” Lilly replied, “............Nature is a creative thing, where nearly every possibility happens at least once… We were probably caught in that one unlucky happening throughout time, which would create a situation like this.”

“More words than I needed.” Red shrugged, “Two to one though, so let’s not think about it anymore shall we?”

They all silently agreed and got comfortable, it was only the morning after all. They still had a long day ahead of them.