San Robin
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Chapter 9: Mindshare After a few hours of practising Nasbor opened his eyes, “It’s not working! Can you please explain it one more time?” he asked. Esmeralda looked at him, “Alright one more time!” she said, “Try to do the same thing you do as when you’re meditating, you need to sense the soul of Sola and when you do try to grasp and enter it.” “But Sola is in a rock! He doesn’t move nor does he have a smell. How am I going to hear a rock move?” Nasbor asked. “By pondering about those kind of things you’re getting distracted.” Esmeralda said, “Didn’t you notice that when you were meditating before you knew what kind of animal and the exact location the animal was at?” “Well yes.” Said Nasbor, “But the animals moved and had a smell...” “But didn’t you notice something else? Did you not picture the animal in your head?” Asked Esmeralda. “Yes I did, but I think that’s just natural because my brain matches the smell and moving pattern to the right animal.” Nasbor doubted, “But there was this one time I noticed something strange, small like a garden gnome, Green as a frog and with strange spiky hair... I had forgotten all about that! What was that thing? and how did I know what it looked like?” Esmeralda smiled, “What you described was a Sneevil and that picture you had in your head was its soul! You see, once someone is in deep meditation that person will be able to notice other creature’s soul!” Nasbor nodded but thought of something, “Esmeralda? If I noticed every soul around me... Then why didn’t I ever notice yours?” Esmeralda looked at him, “Because I shield my soul so that it’s not that easy to find and take over! You I do not fear, but I have enough enemies who would like a piece of me! But for now back to training!” Nasbor sat quietly focussing on his surroundings, he had sat there for a few hours trying to find Sola’s soul to connect with but with very little result. What could a dragon’s soul look like... He didn’t know so he tried to think what a dragon looks like, the stories always spoke of huge lizard like creatures who breathed fire, creatures with large fangs and claws and malicious behaviour, but he didn’t think Sola once looked like that, Sola’s behavior was gentle and friendly nothing like the dragons the stories described. He started to fantasize about a golden dragon with a long snakelike body with relatively short arms and legs, manes of a lion and whiskers of a Carp, he saw it so well in his mind and the image wouldn’t go away. Suddenly he realised, could this be Sola’s soul? Slowly he tried to put his mind to it, tried to enter it, a shiver went through him as he felt his soul reach to the image, as soon as his soul touched the image he heard Sola’s voice, “Congratulations, Boy, you successfully reached my soul! Now I shall lend you some of my power for you to prove Esmeralda that you achieved mindsharing with me!” Nasbor felt an alien power rush through his body and to his head, his eyes burned for a moment as he heard Sola say, “Open your eyes, Boy, you now have the sight of the dragon as long as I’m connected to you!” Nasbor opened his eyes and noticed that the cave somehow seemed lighter, before it was dark as the deepest nights and he could hardly see the walls but now he could see everything, this must be the Dragon Sight Sola was talking about. Esmeralda looked up, “Did you quit again? There’s just no helping you is there now?” Nasbor grinned, “No, I actually did it!” Esmeralda’s jaw dropped, this was faster progress than she imagined! “You did? What did Sola say?” “He said I now have the sight of a dragon!” Nasbor said still smiling, “I can see the entire cave now!” “Is that so?” Asked Esmeralda, “Then please close your eyes as I hide something in the cave.” Nasbor did as he was told and after a minute or so he felt a tap on his shoulder, “You can open your eyes now!” he opened his eyes and saw Esmeralda standing next to him. “I hid your backpack somewhere in the cave, if you truly have the sight of a dragon finding it back should be a piece of cake” She said to him. Nasbor looked around the cave and saw his backpack lying on the other side of the cave, without a doubt he walked towards it and brought it back to Esmeralda. “Amazing!” She said, “To think that you could learn this so fast! It’s stunning!” Nasbor smiled shy, he didn’t get a lot of compliments from Esmeralda so he harbored every single one of them. “Now to celebrate, please open your backpack and get what’s inside of it!” Esmeralda said with a smile. Nasbor opened up his backpack and saw 2 beautifully crafted daggers lying in there, he took them out of the backpack and looked at Esmeralda, “These are... For me?” Esmeralda nodded, “You deserve them! And they are important for the next part of training” Nasbor sighed, “I should’ve known it wasn’t this easy...” Esmeralda smiled “You need to practise with those! They were specially crafted for you so that you could defend yourself if needed” Nasbor nodded, “Thank you, Esmeralda. I -” Nasbor suddenly looked outside, “We have uninvited guests!” Esmeralda looked at the cave entrance, “I don’t see anyone.” Nasbor shook his head, “no because they’re still quite far away, the Dravir are coming! They somehow found us!” Esmeralda looked at Nasbor “This must be the effect of your dragon sight. Tell me, do you see another exit?” Nasbor looked around, at the end of the cave he saw a small gap, big enough for him and Esmeralda to crawl through but creatures as big as the Dravir could never crawl through it! “This way!” he said as he grabbed Esmeralda’s hand leading her to the gap. They ran and ran until they thought they were far enough. “I’m glad you turned out to be a quick student” Esmeralda panted, “Or else we would be Dravir prisoners by now! You -” She looked at Nasbor, “Are you ok?” Nasbor was panting and sweating, he tried to keep standing but he fainted. Esmeralda could catch him just in time. “Nasbor?” Esmeralda asked, “What’s wrong?” “The power I gave him exhausted him.” Sola said from his stone, “He just started this and isn’t completely used to it yet, let him rest for a while and continue as soon as he wakes up!” “Is there something you know that I don’t, Sola?” Esmeralda asked Sola. “I know these caves... They’re the home of an old “friend” of mine... But for now, rest, both of you!” Esmeralda nodded and put Nasbor on the ground and put a blanket on him, shortly after that she also lied down and fell vast asleep.
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