Maeve moved forward through the labyrinth of dead machines for a while, ignoring the commotion from the voices behind her until she reached a great door where she stopped and sat down before it cross-legged. If she was not wrong, behind this door would be the surface of this planet.
Closing her eyes she seemed to enter a meditative state and her body began to slowly light up with a greenish glow. From her back two pairs of spectral hands emerged and then a head, before long the entire body of a man emerged from her body and stood behind her.
The figure of this man appeared both real and fake as if his body was in flux. He appeared solid in one moment and a stray gust of wind would make his body shake as if it was made from smoke. Yet his feet pressed against the ground signifying that his presence was tangible.
Maeve breathing quickened, but she steadied herself and continued, and soon another figure emerged, it was a woman, and another emerged not long after, a young man of about sixteen, then a boy, and then an older man, a young girl, a shy teenage boy…
This weird event continued for the next hour until eighty-five people stood behind her, another small figure that resembled a fairy with dragonfly wings hovered before Maeve, who finally opened her eyes with a gasp.
She looked behind her and smiled, for behind her were all the men, women, and children who had survived the Nexus.
In her hopes to keep the lives of her master subjects in such a torturous place like the battlefield, Maeve's ability had undergone a weird mutation, and she had been able to transform the bodies and spirits of these people into her own.
Their lives and Spirit fused with hers and they became one.
She did not know how she did it, but there came a moment during the battle when the shockwave from a Dominators death had threatened to kill everyone around her, and she instinctively used her innate Spatial ability to grab them, something that was impossible according to all the rules of her power.
Her powers were only supposed to move inanimate objects from one position to another, and at the edge of her desperation, she only wanted to keep these people safe.
Something unexpected happened with her Spatial ability, and it transformed the flesh and spirit of these people and made them one with her Spirit, so as long as she did not die, these people were unkillable.
Even if they died, they would be resurrected as long as her Spirit returned. In this manner, she had been able to protect her oath to Rowan, and his people had also protected her.
Many battles and close shaves with death had taught not only her about her new abilities, but the people merged with her Spirit had also grown, becoming warriors. Without all of them working together, they would have all perished long ago on a battlefield that had claimed those that were far stronger.
Although she did not have any idea about how her ability had transformed, she still suspected this small fairy playfully flying all around her head to be the cause of it, or it was a primer.
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