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After crying every last tear out of their body, Anna’s body shut down and went to sleep.

“Well, that was an experience.” Red flung her upper body up and crossed her legs.

She surveyed the area and saw Lilly still seated at the pool’s edge, while White was slowly standing back up and was now only ankle-deep in water.

Interestingly, the pool seemingly had no depth, as White was in the same spot but at a higher in elevation than before.

“What… Did I do?” White’s body shook, confused about what compelled her to undergo such actions.

However, the other two could feel a deep longing flooding from White’s figure.

“Walking into a weird white pool and basically getting high?” Red shrugged, “Not what I expected, but that basically applies to everything currently happening.”

The comment snapped White out of her trance and she snapped her head to glare at Red, before quickly sighing and walking out of the pool.

While in the pool, the ‘water’ could splash but as White reached the side of it, all the ‘water’ pulled away.

“Weird… I didn’t feel wet, but I also don’t feel dry when out of it.” White sighed yet again, “None of this makes any sense.”

White had exited on the opposite end of where Lilly was sitting.

Red tried a little longer to see if she could get the body to open its eyes, but nothing she could do worked.

All she felt was the warm comfort of the sheets and the occasional warm touch across Anna’s face.

“We are really going to need a discussion on how we are supposed to live huh.” Red quietly mumbled.

“Pardon?” White asked.

“Topic for later!” Red replied, wanting to enjoy the current feeling for a moment longer.

After a short time passed, “Also, Lilly.” Red flung her head sideways, “Why did you feel pain earlier, you weren’t in the pool at the time were you?”

Lilly paused before speaking, “...I just thought maybe, if I could… well see through the eyes… and I thought deeply about it.”

Lilly did a small quaint clap with her hands, “Poof, it worked… kind of.” Lilly still mumbled her speech a little bit, and Red and White could feel the nervousness oozing off her figure, but she still felt oddly comfortable around these two. A feeling she hadn’t had with strangers for a long time.

“So we don’t need to be in the pool?” Said Red.

While White, confused, asked, “Wherefore would thou even think to try that?”

“Cause why not?” Red clicked her tongue, “She can do what she wants.”

“I… just don’t understand where the logic would begin to be used to reach such a conclusion.”

Lilly spoke up, wanting to let her observation be known, “I… couldn’t control anything… but I could feel it… all the sensation.”

The three pondered the knowledge to different extents.

Red stood up and got out of the pool. “Let’s start our introduction again, now that we have a slightly better understanding of the situation we are in.”

She signalled White and Lilly to come over. The two agreed as there was literally nothing else to do. So the three ended up sitting across from each other in a circle.

Red started as it was her idea, “I’m Red, a former top-rank mercenary and orphan, the former pretty obvious with my clothes. Also possessed the Blood and Fire attributes.”

Lilly quietly mumbled, “Wow… two.”

One was the average amount of attributes an individual was born with. Extremely rare however, some people could be born with none, but less rare but still very uncommon was those few born with two–about a one-in-one-thousand chance.

White went next, “I’m White, a former nun. I had the Moonlight and Space attributes, can’t say I was good about using either of them. Only learned healing magic for Moonlight and didn’t get the chance to learn space. No family.”

Finally, it was Lilly’s turn.

She breathed in and out before speaking,

“Lilly, teenager… I had the Manipulation attribute…” Lilly suddenly stopped.

So Red commented, “One of the ‘get rich ones’.”

Which caused Lilly to bite her lip, “But I was wrong… a failure, I couldn’t use it properly.”

Red now felt a bit shit but didn’t say anything as she felt it wasn’t the time.

Lilly shook her head, “That’s it really.”

…

Silence drowned their personal void for a moment before Red summarised the situation. “So we all died, in some way or another, and have woken up in the body of this five year old named Anna.”

“Well… if we shared the same experience…” Lilly thought of the vague memories of the last five years, “We were all here from the beginning.” Lilly added, “Then we were all here from that start… the birth… the creation of ‘Anna’.”

“But why did it take so long for us to… wake up? I guess that’s the right world.”

Lilly paused for a moment thinking of an example, “Imagine this, this space is a balloon, and the only way the balloon is considered… ummm done? Is when it flies slightly off the ground, but in this situation the balloon had three weights inside it which meant more time had to pass before it grew big enough to take off.” The explanation was far from perfect, and she was already thinking of better ones she could’ve said.

Red nodded at the explanation.

“I… do get it.” White understood the logic even if the explanation was confusing, but just found the whole situation weird and unnatural. “Only once the container was large enough could we all fit, I guess the ‘sleeping’ state we were in saved space?”

Lilly responded, “Probably… but we don’t know how much time has passed since our deaths and Anna’s birth.”

The three stared at each other, knowing from the unknown connection they had what to say next.

“1308.”

“1308 EC.”

“...1308 EC.”

White said, “So if no time has passed since death and rebirth, then it's 1313 EC.”

A mixture of emotions across all three individuals' faces.

Red asked, “Everything else people want to add?”

“Yes… but not at the moment.” White replied, “We… I need time to process everything.”

“Fair enough, Lilly?”

“I’m… good.”

Now that the discussion was over, Red did have something to quickly ask, “White?”

“Yes, thou.”

“You talk funny.”

White’s mouth opened widely before it very slowly closed and she became flush with embarrassment.

The immense feelings of embarrassment bombed Red and Lilly but within the centre of it was a small piece of happiness.

“Quite indeed, I… guess I should try and fix that, now that I have the chance to.” A small smile rested on White’s face while Lilly and Red were on the ground dealing with the aftereffects of the emotional bomb.

But at least the introductions went well.