Finding Clarity: Tricky's World

A piece of digital art depicting a long red headed woman rushing through the countryside in a brown leather skirt and jacket, her hand held out in front of her and a bright green swirl of light dancing in her palm.

Tricky holding her mother's energy light

Tricky's world is set a few hundred years from now in a post-apocalyptic world. After a massive shift of the tectonic plates decimated the world and its population, life on the remaining landmass has returned to simple living, with money, rulers and religion no longer trusted. Those that survived did so in underground bunkers, which mean that the majority of people who survived were from rich and wealthy families, or were their servants. Skills have been lost, and as no-one can navigate the sea now that churns in an unrhythmic way, like a washing machine, there is only the landmass.

Tricky's parents both had abilities: Her father worked with fire and chemicals, and her mother with time and energy. Together they ran a school helping others develop their abilities. Her father died during an experiment with fire, and her mother was burnt at the stake by a corrupt network that has been turning the populous against gifted folk to gain power and control.

Tricky's skill with time manipulation exceeds her mothers, and she is the only person she knows who can communicate with trees. She works with light energy, which resides in the body, and uses it in various forms.

The landmass is managed by a man the people call The Baron and his family, but there are no defined rulers, each district has its own manager, which has been slowly infiltrated by the same network that murdered her mother.