"Biska is always scary as hell and Hayden, that peach-haired moron, you should avoid bumping into him and there is Omri..."
As Manasseh led her to the library, Yuna took a note of the entire hallway they walked through. The walls and ceilings were nothing peculiar and kind of similar to every Asian traditional house in the so-called real world. They reached a bigger and presentable door unique from the others. Yuna perused at the beautiful carvings flawlessly engraved on the door, inscribing every detail of known fantasy. Dragons, nymphs, mermaids, and many more, but never a sign of humans except elves which looked like one.
Manasseh twisted the knob and pushed the big and wooden brown door open, revealing a sanctuary. Shelves met the domed ceiling full of illustrations about stars and constellation and in the middle is a big tan globe.
The room was wide and well-lit by a big glass window starting from the reachable, extended stumpy second floor up to the beam of the ceiling. The low second floor, fenced with a wooden banister looked like a balcony inside the room. Books and scrolls were arranged in their places.
Gladly, it came out as she expected, solemn and quiet. Not a single person except them was inside and for the first time, she felt entirely home.
Yuma started looking around as she read every caption that was stuck on every shelf. Her new dangling ocean green thick dress that stopped under her knees made her walk with ease and discomfort.
She didn't ask much about stuffs like the possibility of computers and mobile phones being invented in this place from the fact that they don't call their powers as "magic" here. That people here are quite accustomed to it too.
The words written on every sign were far from all the language she was exposed to, not even Latin or Greek matches a letter. Just what kind of civilization was she now?
It was a good thing that Manasseh let her stroll everywhere by herself, giving her the privacy to freely think and devise her plan of escape.
A history book or nonfiction book would be fine. She reached the farthest part of the library, but not a convincing caption was in sight. She was about to go back and search on the second floor when her eyes caught an interesting memo above.
It was so high from her reach, but it's not like she'd just leave after knowing the hindrance. She looked around and managed to find a scaffolding far from her right side.
She pulled the wooden ladder as it created a screeching sound as it moved on the floor. She set it on the perfect spot, slowly climbed up and sat on the wooden plank as she pulled out an ordinary thick book from the shelf with the caption, "Enchanters."
Yuna stroked the rough leather surface of the book, amused by how she doesn't feel any sign of dust on it. She slowly lifted it open and a page full of culture and illustration was what she saw. She read every page and broadly memorizes them.
"Nevaeh" This world was named Nevaeh and yes, she was in another world and not in another dimension.
There are four kingdoms stood and ruled their own lands.
In the East was the Land of Conorrah, inhabited mostly by elves, faeries, dwarves, centaurs, gnomes, and seemingly innocuous creatures and was currently governed by the 3rd generation Wisdom pillar, which was a nymph. They typically nurture healing and growth enchantments, everything that is related to nature.
In general, every creature she stumbled upon on every fantasy book that she read when she was young was living in this place. The feeling of ridiculous disbelief was still written on her face, nothing of this was supposed to exist after all.
In the North, stood the Kingdom of Empyreans where mermaids and every water creatures live, like water dragons, krakens for sure, and every water mythical creatures that she could find. That kingdom was 70% water after all.
Their words that named and depict every creature here weren't entirely the same as what her people call them.
An example was, mermaids were called as "Shivernyms" in this world. There are many more but that doesn't matter now.
The Western Kingdom was called Dazlhethyan where it was occupied by werewolves, demon-like creatures, and types of elves that are distinctly different from the elves of Conorrah.
The Southern kingdom was...
---there's not a single detail about it and went straight to the broad detail of a place called "Capital" which was located at the center of this world. It was wider and bigger compared to other kingdoms. It was where the four kingdoms trade, socialize, and meet after all.
In the middle of the capital stood the "COUNCIL", the peacekeeper of this world and the TIME pillar as its eminence.
She then reached another topic about the "Four Pillars".
Four powerful gifts were born to balance this world divided by Lands of sovereign and minor gifts. The long-lived "Chosens" became pillars to eliminate the growing corruption for hundreds of centuries.
Life/light.
Time
Death/Darkness
Wisdom
Here, Life or light [power] doesn't equate good and Death or Darkness [power] doesn't equate evil. Everyone's reality was what's burning deep inside their hearts and that's how their gifts would be used.
When a Pillar perishes, a new successor will be chosen or will be born but there's only a minimal list of successors due to their long lives. Sub-pillars were then established to aid the Pillars to stand firm in any situation.
She stopped reading for a while. The so-called fact that these creatures created by human imagination actually exist and the fact that she has the chance to see them didn't excite her that much.
These creatures don't call themselves a part of a fantasy, or living in a fantasy world for they too do exist like humans are now.
They have been living without knowing that humans like her exist and breathing because no matter how many times she read the book, she cannot find any word, phrase, or sentence that can grant the possibility of her kind's existence.
None!
These findings enthralled her, the opinion of humans becoming a legend or a fantasy to others was so ironic.
She then stopped herself from thinking bizarre opinions, she doesn't accept such kind of reality. That this was just a lucid dream or a trick to deceive her, that there were technologies that can make it do so.
No way would she believe such nonsense.
Knowing that the Southern Kingdom's broad details were missing still bothered her. Certain "what-if" questions then pop out of her mind.
What if humans are living there? What if there's a ticket way home when she got there?
What if?
She continued reading until she found a family-tree like diagram; it was the list of the Four pillar's successors.
She skimmed the names until she stumbled upon a rather throbbing sight, for under the Light/Life pillar was an unexpected name.
The wandering moon sprite,
"Yuna."