BXBX NOVEL Chapter 337 Over The Years
Layla had returned from the cafeteria with both Jude and Tuchel to see that Bryan was still working on his computer while Tauriel was sitting beside him and watching everything he was doing carefully.
"Have you found anything?" Layla asked.
"No," Bryan said.
"Don't overstress yourself, we'll find whoever that is one way or the other," Layla said.
"I know but I want to find him before anything starts going wrong," Bryan said.
"Nothing is going to go wrong," Layla said before turning her gaze. "I see you've developed an interest in computers."
"She develops an interest in anything that has to do with getting information," Tuchel said.
"Well the computer alone doesn't give you information, you still need the internet," Layla said.
"What's the internet?" Jude asked.
"It's something every smart device has that allows it to be able to get information from anywhere around the world and also do other amazing things," Layla explained.
"Around the world? That sounds impossible." Tuchel said.
"Well in this world pretty much everything is possible," Layla said, walking to the table by the side.
"Yeah, I saw a man freeze his drink with his hand at the place you took us to eat," Jude said.
"What?" Tuchel said.
"Yeah, that's an ability, almost everybody in this world has one or two," Layla said sitting on the table.
"So you can do that too?" Jude asked.
"No, I can do something different," Layla said.
"Like what?" Tuchel asked.
"This," Layla said.
"Hi." Tuchel was frightened as he heard Layla's voice behind him and quickly turned to see that she was the one standing there behind him.
"Layla, how are you here and also there?" Tuchel was really confused by what was happening now.
"Waooh," Jude said, looking back and forth between the two. "This is magic."
"No, it's not." Jude heard Layla's voice behind him and quickly turned to see that it was another clone.
"This is my ability, it's a cloning ability and I don't have to say any words or chant any spells in my mind before I can use it." The real Layla said from where she was sitting.
The display of ability Layla was doing had caught Tauriel's attention as she had turned away from Bryan's computer and was looking at the two clones with a baffled look on her face.
"Are those real clones or just mirror clones that disappear when you touch them?" Tauriel asked.
"No, they are the real deal," Layla said as the clone close to Tuchel sent a punch down the elf's chest.
"Hey, why did you do that?" Tuchel complained as he staggered back holding his chest.
"At my level, I can create twenty clones which all have fifty percent of my strength and know everything I know," Layla said.
"And killing any of them won't affect you in any way?" Tauriel asked.
"Apart from a little pain in my chest which indicates that one of my clones was killed, no," Layla said, shaking her head.
"That's nice," Tauriel said.
"Yeah but there's a little flaw to my cloning ability," Layla said as both of the clones around Jude and Tuchel vanished.
"What?" Tauriel asked.
"When my clones are far from me, they slightly disconnect and when they are too far from me, they vanish," Layla said.
"What do you mean by slightly disconnected?" Tauriel asked.
"That means they won't know most of the things she knows anymore and their power will drop," Bryan said.
"Oh," Tauriel said.
"That's why I can't use my clones for undercover missions in far places but I can do that if I am close by," Layla said.
"You still haven't explained why you ordered your clone to punch me," Tuchel said.
"That was her choice, not mine," Layla said, trying to keep a straight face.
"So what's your own ability?" Tauriel asked, turning to Bryan.
Bryan didn't say anything as the cup on the table Layla was sitting on quickly floated up and flew into his hand which was open now.
"Waooooh." Jude and Tuchel said at the same time.
They were amazed because they thought these were things only witches, wizards, and mages could do but this world had just proven what they thought wrong.
"Telekinesis," Tauriel said.
"That he used to steal my pen all the way from my office," Layla said.
"I returned it," Bryan said.
"Yeah but it's still stealing because you didn't ask for my permission before taking it," Layla said.
Jude had turned his gaze to the table on the other side of the room which was quite far compared to where the other table was as his eyes had caught something.
He walked to the table to see something he didn't quite know what it was.
On the table was Layla's destroyed drone and a lot of its parts that had fallen off.
"What's this?" Jude asked, looking at the drone.
"Oh, that's my drone which you guys crushed when you dropped down from that portal." A clone quickly appeared beside him to say.
"Yeah, I remember seeing something like this when we dropped from that portal," Tuchel said, suddenly showing up behind Jude.
"We were trying to use it to send you a reply just like you requested." The Layla clone said.
"That reminds me, where is the reply, I want to read it?" Jude asked, turning his gaze to Bryan.
"Here it is," Bryan said as the piece of rolled paper quickly flew to Jude who caught it before it could fly past him.
He opened the letter and began to read it as he walked to Bryan.
"I miss you too Tania." He muttered with a smile on his face after reading the whole thing.
"Umm.... I know our work is a transition of yours but can you please tell me how that is how English is written in your world?" Layla asked. This time it was the real Layla.
"Is it written differently here?" Tauriel asked.
"Yeah," Layla said with a nod.
"How? show me," Tauriel said, getting up from where she was sitting.
"Okay," Layla said, taking a sheet of paper from Bryan's table and taking out the pen in her pocket.
"This is how we write the letter A here," Layla said, writing the letter A on the sheet of paper. "Let me see how you write yours?" She said, handing Tauriel the pen.
The she-elf stared at the letter for quite a while before scribbling what A looked like in their world on the paper.
"Yeah, that's A," Tuchel said from where he was standing behind them.
"That's definitely not A, that looks like some sort of symbol language," Layla said.
Tauriel didn't say anything as she stared at both of the letters for quite a while trying to find the similarities because to her there had to be some kind of similarity between the two letters.
"Do you have anything I can use to clean some parts of the letter?" She asked with her eyes still fixed on the sheet.
"You mean like a correction pen?"
"Anything that can clean the letters," Tauriel said.
"Bryan," Layla called.
"There's a correction pen on the table there," Bryan said.
Layla quickly checked in between the books and found the correction pen which she handed to Tauriel.
"Just place the tip on the part you want to clean and press it," Layla said.
"Okay," Tauriel said.
"I wonder what you want to do."
"You'll see," Tauriel said as she slowly got to work.
Layla watched her as she slowly cleaned some parts of the symbol like A and after she was done, it looked like the normal A which was known in this world.
Layla stared back and forth between Tauriel and the letter as she was dumbfounded.
"I think it went from that to this over the years," Tauriel said.
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