When my uncle picked me up that day, I glared at him.

“Don’t look at me that way!”

“What way?” 

“Like I’m guilty of something.” 

“Oh but you are. You never told me that I would one day gain magical powers or that I’m going to go through six years of power malfunctions that can decide whether or not I’ll grow power rings when I’m 12. Plus I have to wear purple shirts to school every day that dye my armor malfunctions to the color of my skin. So yes I’m unhappy okay!”

“Skylar, I understand your frustration. But, I never told because I didn’t think you would understand.” 

“Understand? Understand what? That I’m a freak?” 

“You’re not a freak.” 

“Then how come I had to be in a separate room when you were enrolling me?” 

“Sky, you don’t understand your disorder do you?” 

“So what if I’m autistic? I’m different, so what? Normal is overrated!” 

“Because of your disability the rules are different for you everywhere. You wouldn't believe how many hoops your father had to jump through with being a disabled singer when he was young!” 

“But now he’s on the road all the time! Webcam is all I see of him!” 

“You don’t listen! I’m trying to say your life is going to be different from other people’s!” 

“Also I need you to tell me what happened before the mind-wiping. What caused it?” 

”It happened because Shirak possessed me.” 

“Possessed? You mean there are demons that control your powers?” 

“Yes. But, you won’t have to deal with it until you get your power rings.” 

“Okay. Keep going.” 

“So the regular Hitons that aren’t mixed found out I was a power-cithian and got jealous.” 

“How jealous? And how did they find out?” 

“They wouldn’t let us get jobs. We had to steal hawkheads and be in disguises all the time just to make ends meet.” 

“That doesn’t sound like fun. But how did they find out about your powers?” 

“To tell you the truth I don’t really have a lot of power. Most of what  I'm known for is potion making.”

“Okay. So what potion made you get booted out of the office of Bloodbringer?” 

“I’m the patron of the Darkomegian procedure.” 

“What’s that?” 

“It’s not important you’ll learn about it when you’re older. Anyways, people got so jealous that they called us racist even though we offer normal people a way to get powers if they pay like 5,000 hawkheads. But the biggest reason we were called racist was because we only had one  Sayis and that’s Elwoods Bolto.” 

“But what made the Sayis’ have to wipe people of the memories of us?”

“During my impeachment, They legitimately had me locked up.” 

“Locked up? So who was running the United States of Jasper?”

“Brian Henderson, the vice BloodBringer.”

“So what did he do?” 

“He went totally insane and separated all the citizens of Jasper into ranks. Nobody was allowed to vote except for the  Ganthiras . They were the only ones who controlled the laws that were made. The second rank were Kandriths. This was the rank most cithians were put in. The main people who ran the Kandrith rank were devil worshippers so we had a pretty bad reputation. The last rank is called the Rangrates. These are the people like me that had to wear a disguise and have a fake name just to make ends meet. Heck no one knew I was named Kodyack until I ran for office” 

“But what made the Sayis’ Council wanna wipe everyone’s minds?” 

“On March 7th of 2024, The Hitons got so jealous that Brian just woke up and instantly decided to outlaw all cithians. The outlawing went on for three weeks and three days. It was called the most insane three weeks of our lives in our village of Haystead and all over Jasper. It was also called Bleeding Siraka because the Cithians went to the Village of Siraka to escape imprisonment. Although that was not what happened because 300 cithians died during those days. Because of this, The Sayis Council decided to wipe the Hitons' minds of all the memories of Cithians. But they warned that if any Cithian attacks happened their minds would be returned to them and the hunt for our people would start again.” 

“Okay. But now that I know all that, do I still need to go to school?”

“First ones? Wait, I thought all cithians have powers.” 

“Nope,Our powers came from a potion that we stole back from the Yakobians. The source of all our powers is called the Maroon heart. Although there are two sides to the heart.Each side was made by two brothers. Adagar Markson and Gadrid Markson. 

Adagar’s side was the source of power for all Good cithians and Gadrid Markson’s side was the source of all the bad cithian’s powers.”

“Oh my goodness, so our powers came from two brothers who were related to the Hecticmaker of the Grey Diamond Warriors?” 

“Yes and because of that Shirak was reawakened and the first people to get cithian powers were possessed by him and unable to control their powers.” 

“Oh. So after the Markson War, Shirak was asleep?” 

“Yes.” 

“So do you think Brian Henderson is maybe a human embodiment of Shirak?” “I highly doubt it.” 

“Why?” 

“Because Brian is one of the Yakobs who were on Hiton before we came along and the Yakobs took our potion to make sure gods and demons could never be contacted again. From then on, Shirak and his servants weren’t allowed to possess the yakob.” 

“So the potion banned Shirak from possessing Yakobians?” 

“Yes, but they warned us that if we took back our potion for any reason their banning of Shirak and his servants would be relinquished.”