I cannot speak or hear I have never been able to do so because my vocal cords are damaged and my ears are completely closed. Life is difficult when everything is silent especially in a world where humans are hunted by other species because of our violent tendencies and willingness to betray and connive in the shadows. These other species are all advanced in magic and tech but more so on the magic side compared to humans it was very depressing.
Human tech could not withstand the millenniums worth of study into magic of other species combining tech and magic but each human had a talent they were born with which all depended on their work, skills, and their wants which awoke when they were eighteen giving them a fighting chance due to the talents we quickly had enough tech to counter minor magics but then the armies actually came annihilating most of humanity in less then a day. They kept some alive to study our talents but my group managed to escape during the war and hide.
I turned eighteen today but nothing changed around me except being able to feel mana which most people wrote they could hear. I was disappointed I couldn't hear the mana but quickly realized the mana wasn't moving at all when everyone else who had awoken a mana talent said it moved constantly. I was confused so I touched the mana which instantly got absorb through my skin another strange thing. Then my brother a geeky kid who loved the idea of magic mechs and became a Architect 3 years prior tried to carve mana to create letters but it all stayed still even the mana I could see within his Body.
I laughed and I think Mana is treated as a friend because mana itself has a consciousness that just talks to all species trying to understand them but it never interferes except when a species will go extinct it's kind like that or at least our planets mana does. I can silence it's voice amazing.
I then start to bleed from my eyes and hear a ringing sound amazing then collapse to the ground. I wake up a moment later feeling mana pulse through me with a slight sound before it gets silenced by my power. Maybe I'll be able to hear if I can control my power maybe I'll finally hear their voices if I simply can use the mana to convene their words. Please world work with me I remove the silenced mana from my viens and my left completely explodes in a gush of blood but for a second I can hear my ragged breathing through the mana. I begin to laugh not minding the pain because I can finally hear but the mana seems to want to squeeze within me causing pressure to build up if I don't allow it within.
I have to work out a different way to grant myself hearing maybe I can speak using the silenced mana but I can't do that till I can hear otherwise I don't know what I'm saying. I need to stop myself from silencing mana maybe I can do that by expanding the range of my silence so I close my eye to meditate with blood dripping down my face and begin to hum trying to expand the range of my ability which bends to my will quickly and I notice I can see using the silenced particles but I still can't hear as it covers the whole continent of USA and I see my brother come in and shake me yelling "Stop it we can't hear when you use your ability it literally stops sound." I read his lips to know what hes saying.