City of Fog

02 First Encounter

Eji. I said inside my head.

No response. As usual.

Eji is not some made up character in my head or such. Well in a sense she kind of is too. I swear though she's not my imaginary girlfriend or something just to get that cleared up. Eji was the avatar form of my super unnatural power and she appeared the day I inherited my powers, which I believe was the day I was born. I imagine her as a young, warm, elegant female figure, though I never got a clear image of her. Sometimes when I concentrate real hard, I can see a blurry outline of her figure. The clearest picture I ever got was this: Long silky dark hair, beautiful white sundress and...I was never able to capture the eyes. For some impossible reason the eyes escape me. She spoke very rarely, and she never speaks whenever there are other people around. Sometimes she throws in a random comment here or there. But by the end of the day, the most she will ever say barely makes a paragraph. And when she chooses to be quiet she can be real quiet. Sometimes she might not even talk to me for months, then all of a sudden make a random comment in the middle of the day, that scares the living daylights out of me. But generally having a girl avatar that can speak in your head? Defiantly awesome.

But back to my mindreading of the silver hair Lolita girl. She didn't really have anything on her mind, other than the view of the train station with people rushing by honking and squawking and all that kind of stuff. Really the only unusual thing was her vision was a couple seconds ahead of mine. And every scene was 100% absolutely correct, even though the vision she sees in her head was a few seconds before the actual event happened. I rubbed my eyes several times, and observed for a several more minutes. In the end the only reasonable conclusion as impossible it is to believe was:

She can see the future.

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"Um...hi." I said nervously.

Not so great for a pick up line I know, but without the ability to mindread clearly, I was literally handicapped in the area of dating.

Silence.

She didn't even turn and looked and me as she continue to stare ahead. I figured even if I screamed at the top of my tongues I probably wouldn't get a reaction, so I decide to try something different, it's was risky, but it was worth the risk:

"You...you can see the future?"

She actually turned and stared at me, and with nothing else I to do, I stared back at her. Seconds quickly turned into minutes. It and finally she decided to open her mouth. If she hadn't I would have thought she'd gone mute or something:

"Who are you?"

Her voice was soft, almost close to a whisper, I had to be 3 ft away from her to hear it. Any further and I would have completely missed it.

"Uh..."

Good question, I thought. I am nobody to be honest...yeah that sounds like of sad, but true at the same time.

"Just a stranger who can read minds, totally not suspicious or anything..."

Shit. I think I just f**ked up completely. Way to go, me.

"Very well then. Follow me."

Wait...what? WTF is going on right now? Did my lines just work somehow? Well not knowing what her true intention really was, I followed her outside of the sky train station and across a few streets and stopped in one of those abandoned shack. My heart began race, my palm began to sweet, and my nerve began to tighten. I had never been in this kind of situation ever before in my life. Following a super cute Lolita girl into an abandoned shack, totally logical, nothing to worry, keep calm and what's the danger behind that anyways?