4 Winter 514 Today was another day, a new day, and yet an important day. Clyde could feel it deep within, could feel a threshold that he was about to cross, as he slowly awoke in his bed. Over the time that Clyde had worked with Cha, he had come to know her quite closely. Naming her, gaining a understanding of her, making her, all were quite secondary. It had not been until he had actually used her, till he had attempted to unite with her to use magic, to make her an extension of himself, that his quest to understand her had truly begun. Every day it felt to Clyde like their bond was one step stronger, one step closer, and his understanding of her was one step closer to completion. It had been roughly three years ago when Clyde had first even heard of Magic Staff's from his Magecrafting instructor, had first aided in the making of one. If he'd known then that three years later not only would he have made many more, not only would he have made one for himself, but he was nearing perfect union with the one he had made for himself, he would have been both surprised and happy. In some ways that time was long ago to Clyde, and in other ways it was so very near and close. However once he had begun to work with Cha, he had soon learned his knowledge of Magic Staff's and their abilities was incomplete. Initially he had tamed the staff as he had been told was possible, and had learned to cast his magic through Cha, to exude his res from her skin, to look and see Auristically with her, even to open entrances to the void along her length. All simple enough. But when he had gone past that, he had been surprised. Perhaps it was due to his djed running through Cha, a essence of that rubbing off inside of her, or of their closeness and proximity, but eventually he sensed something more of Cha. He could picture her in his mind, could see her, even when she was not about. Through some trial and error, and much practice, he learned this sight was real, that he was truly seeing his staff from afar and seeing her surroundings. Along with that he knew of her, knew where she was, could not lose her due to their connection, For instance without opening his eyes, Clyde could sense that in his sleep Cha had fell of of his bed, and was now resting on the ground next to it. Through her he could see the wooden frame of the bed, the ground. With a sense of the direction of Cha in relation to his own body, Clyde rolled over and reached downward, his hand snaking out directly at Cha to grab her, still with his eyes closed. He could see all of this from Cha's perspective, saw as a hand reached over the side of the bed and came down, and finally grasped her length. As the two of them physically met Clyde felt a prick of djed sweep along his arm and through his body, a gladness of the two of them once more together and united. This had more to do with a vague use of Auristics than a true inherent ability of the staff. But with such a potent work of Magecrafting being brought in contact with his body, rubbing against his aura, there was always a sudden surge of djed, a prick of sense of power which soon faded away, when the two of them touched. Finally Clyde opened his eyes, feeling powerful and ready to meet the day now that Cha was in his hand. But the sense of a threshold, a perception of something to come, it had nothing to do with anything he'd already done. It had more to do with an oddity, something Clyde had noticed over the past days. Oddly enough, when he cast spells through Cha, he was beginning to sense a odd delay. Normally anything cast through was more or less instantaneous, but lately there seemed to be an odd lag. As Clyde rose from his bed and headed for his lab, Clyde planned to figure out why this oddity was occurring, and what it meant. |