"Wait, Elcroft. As in the Elcrofts who developed The Autonimous?" If this really was the daughter of the founder then she would be from one of the most famous families in the world.
"Yes, My father is Andrew Michael Elcroft, the founder and creator of the Autonimous"
The Autonimous or Animus for short was a revolutionary system that would Clone a creatures genetic traits and copy it onto the body. For example, if you copied a cheetahs speed and probed it onto the human body, that human would gain the speed that the cheetah had, the possibilities were near endless. The only drawback to the Animus was that it was extremely expensive and that it required the traits of a living creature.
"So say you are his daughter, why are you so far on this side of the city?" The city that I was raised in, Arcadia, was segregated into 5 different sectors. Elite class, High , middle, Low and poverty. My family resided in the low class and The Elcrofts are of the elite.
"I was visiting the lake, but, I want to know how you did that, How did I hear your voice in my head earlier?" So she was conscious during the Reven inhabiting her, or at least until I linked our minds, I can't know if I can trust her so I'll tell a half truth just in case she herself is genetically modified.
"Can you keep a secret? I can transfer my thoughts to a persons mind and influence how they think" while I'm not technically lying I'm also leaving out the parts of enhancing my own capabilities and that I can probably do it on a much greater scale.
"Well, that explains the voice and the feeling of trust I felt, you were probably modified so that explains how you're able to do it"
'Well, that was easier than I thought' now that I think about it, I might be able to use her to my advantage.
"Ariana, I can assist you getting home if you'd like but I'll need something from you in return" While money wouldn't be such a bad thing to get, it wouldn't help me in the way I need, so instead I'll need a way to travel between all 5 sectors without money, a permit and a sector enforcer.
"Oh alright, if it's within my authority I'll give you whatever you'd like for saving me from that creature" it seems like she knows what happened to her and considering it doesn't seem like she's terrified anymore, the Reven must've just inhabited her or never did anything while inhabiting her.
"Ok then, shall we go?" We had started making our way to the core of the city where the Sectors split into 5 Gargantuan gates and 5 smaller gates, of course, as I expected, I was stopped at the exit to the gate. Due to my clothing looking lower class I already assumed I would be stopped and questioned.
"Stop, what are your reasons for leaving Sector 4? Do you have business in another sector?"
The rather rude man who had stopped me had an unbelievably smug face whilst locking eyes with me, probably expecting that I would make a break for the gate in hopes of escaping to a higher sector. Obviously that wasn't my plan at all.
"Let us through Arthur, this boy is escorting me home" upon hearing Ariana's voice the dudes face made a complete 180, going from smug to an Ass kisser type look.
"MISS ELCROFT! It is a pleasure to see you again! I assume you found everything in the lower sector quite unbecoming?" Either the guy was just plain stupid or he was trying to get a rise out of me, either way it wouldn't do much.
"No, rather my visit was actually quite pleasing, if it's okay with you, I would like for you to open the gate and let me and Leo through" He must've assumed that whatever business Ariana had in the 4th sector was connected with me, so he just gave up and opened the gate.
As we begin to leave he of course try's once again to get under my skin.
"Don't get cocky just because you know miss Elcroft personally, damned peasant" I don't know what problem this guy has with people from the lower sectors but he's getting kind of annoying, obviously I really wanted to get back at him.
"Let's go Ariana!" Doing my best to put on a really cheerful look as a way to piss off the guy. Ariana as I guessed would look confused but just agreed with me and kept walking, the guard however looked like he was bursting
with anger, each vein on his face bulging.
In the center of the city was a Extremely tall tower that barely scraped the Atmosphere, the tower in a way, was similar to the towers you would see in a video game, that excluded supernatural powers of course. The tower was what powered all of Arcadia and was maintained by extremely modified people called Archetypes, the archetypes only consisted of the 3 middle classes, the entire existence of the tower was unknown but damn was it beautiful.
"Well well, look at that kiddo, the closest humans have been able to touch space, and you use it to power your refrigerators" Azel? I'd noticed that they hadn't said anything since I'd gotten rid of the revenant but I just assumed they went back to being quiet.
"What do you mean touch space, we can't go up there, there's no way we possibly could."
Space or the great void as it's defined as in school is pretty much an infinite dark space, with multiple planets like earth and a huge ball of fire in the center. There's also no oxygen up there so we've never even thought of going up there.
"Well to be honest kid, humans have already been to space, just not in this universe"
And the multiverse is 100% true, I shouldn't be surprised considering the existence of heaven and hell. That does make me wonder if there's multiple Heavens and Hell's? Well, considering that both are present in its own sort of universe, it can be assumed that they are only 1 of 1.
Noticing that Ariana and I had long since entered the 1st sector, we were approaching the Residence of the Elcrofts so I assumed Ariana would ask questions before we arrived.
"Hey Leo, can I ask you something?" Not gonna say I called it, but I did. Come to think of it, I can think more clearly and I'm holding conversation without a problem.
"That's what Enhance can do, it makes it so you think clearly, faster and you can remain calm, to be honest, I didn't expect you to be able to uphold Enhance for this long" Indra had finally said something, and it of course was an explanation.
"Yeah sure, Ariana" I don't know if she'll ask about the guard, how I knew she was being controlled or just what I wanted from her.
"What's your favorite color?" Well, that's unexpected. What could she gain from knowing that?
"Purple I guess, but I don't know how that's a good thing to know." Maybe it was just a feeling but I assumed she was asking because she doesn't have many people to ask.
"Did you happen to ask because you don't know how to talk to people?" I knew this was it because she immediately got quiet, I wasn't meaning to come off as rude I was just curious.
"Yeah, Ive never talked to anyone besides the Sector guards or my family so this is a new experience for me." She's kinda like me, of course I talked to teachers rather than guards, but I can tell she's trying.
"Well, I'm glad that I was the first." I could tell she was relieved that I accepted her as she was, it must be difficult opening up, especially if you're from such a prestigious family.
"Thanks, oh wait, We're here!" The house in front of me wasn't a house but a mansion, picketed with Gold and silver adornments, I could tell this was more expensive than anything I'll ever own.
"Let's go inside, I really want to introduce you to my family!"