Talia Faren: A Short Story

Ever since I could remember, I have been different. When I was four, my mom tried to light candles on my makeshift birthday cake with an ancient lighter. The lighter had to have been over half a century old and the fluid had dried out. Looking at me with her icy blue apologetic eyes, she told me I would just have to pretend there were candles to be blown out. Doing as she asked, I blew out the imaginary flame. Instead of the candle staying perfectly unlicked by a flame, it ignited. We watched in aw as the fire danced on the tip of the candle causing the ivory wax to bleed. I thought my mother was going to kill over right there in front of me. She shifted her focus between me and the candle for two minutes before accepting the fact I had created

It’s the largest out of our fleet of 65, and it is the most advanced. I used to live in the NorthWestern Family Ship with my mother but she passed away when I was only 12. With her passing, I was forced to take my Analytical Placement Exam early. This is the exam every single person in our fleet has to take when they become the age of 15-- or under my circumstance, your parents die. The test will tell the Control Ship Personal what Spaceship you belong on. There are 65 ships total including the Control Ship. The test questions are based on math; if you ace the math test you are definitely heading the Northern Spaceship of Engineering. The english test could tell whether or not you should reside on my neighboring ship, The Eastern Spaceship of Literature or the Southern Spaceship of English. There are several other tests but the biggest section is the science exam. There are over 25 different scientific ships in our fleet including my own. The people who reside there are intelligent in different scientific subjects like chemistry, physicals, medicine, medical sciences, scientific laboratory, biology, and so many other diverse specific categories. After we take the test, they score it and narrow it down to one field of excellence. I scored the highest in science so then I went on to take another test that narrowed down which specific

At night, I would take an 02 pill and sneak out the delivery tunnels to the top of the ship. Up here I was free and nobody could see me. Up hear, I could almost see the ship I belonged on. It resembled a star except it glowed a faint purple. It’s residents were not just any ordinary people; they didn’t have to be Einstein's, or take some advanced test to be on that ship. Simply, they just had to be born. These men, and yes only men, were superhuman. They were bulletproof, fast, telepathic, and some could manipulate the forces around them such as water, ice, air, and like myself, fire. I am not excepted as a Variant because I am a female. My mother always told me that there had never been a female blessed with Variant powers before. She told me never to practice my ability to bend fire out of thin air. But I had too. Even though I don’t always have flames dancing on the palms of my hands, there’s an internal fire that burns hot, and bright. That’s why I come to the outside of the ship. I can practice my bending without authorities seeing me. Though, one day they will, and they will grant me the title of a