She remembered the accident...vaguely. She'd riding along as normal, about to pull up at the Motor Club, when some sort of pole had come falling down a hill at just the right angle that she hadn't seen it until it wedged into her tire spokes. Then she was flying through the air. Catapulted into what she remembered as large tree.
And there was a sense of fading away until...Keiichi called for her to come back...
"Keiichi?" she asked, her eyes still closed. There was something odd about her voice.
"Easy now, Megumi," Urd's voice. "You had a rough fall...and there are other things."
"Other things?" Megumi asked, cracking her eyes open, the light in the room was weird, and shifting slightly. She tried to rise, but Urd forced her down. A good thing, she decided, as she had been feeling nauseous from the effort.
"Give it a few hours, Megs," Urd said.
"What other things?" Megumi asked. "Keiichi saved me didn't he...how did he?" Urd sighed.
"Throughout history there have been those among mortals given gifts by the Creator," Urd said. "Through the centuries they have been regarded as heros, leaders, sorcerers, healers, priests, even gods...and an unlucky few whose gifts produced extreme physical changes were reviled as monsters. Not all of them were, mind you, but many believed them so and they were often killed before they had a chance to prove otherwise."
"Urd, I'm not a baby," Megumi said. "I don't need a fairy tale."
"Just listen for a moment, Megumi," Urd said. "The term used in Asgard for such souls is 'gifted' or 'touched.' Of course, in this day and age of science and reason, when more of the Gifted have appeared since the time of heros, mortals have found a more vulgar word for them."
"Yeah..." Megumi said, not liking where this was going.
"Mutants," Urd said. Megumi felt a chill run up her body.
"Keiichi..." Megumi said. "Is a mutant...and that's how he saved me?"
"Gifted," Urd corrected. "My people prefer gifted."
"Are you...?" Megumi asked gasping.
"Me...no," Urd laughed. "I'll explain what I and my sisters are later. This is about you and your brother."
"Me?" Megumi whimpered. "I'm a mutant? Wait how can you tell..."
Urd sighed and shook her head.
"Belldandy is much better at this," Urd said. She cradled a mirror in her hand and looked at it, indecisively. "Before I show you, Megs, realize that you are still the same person essentially. What you appear to be is not what you are. Do you understand?"
"What do you mean what I appear to be?" Megumi asked. Urd sighed and handed her the mirror.
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