After our talk, Zirani headed off to speak with Sandra and Misty about their cores since she wanted them to have tier second cores filled before we reached the border cities. Currently, we were a few weeks travel away from the border. West Vale, Orton, and even Bullrock were deep within the northern plains and lay past the long stretch of forest, more commonly known as the northern stretch, that cut through the plains Most people didn't travel through even though it was the fastest way to move from one side of the plains to another, mainly because of the high beast population.
We, however, didn't really have to worry about that since we could take on any of the beasts, and the only way we'd truly be at risk is if we ca across a large group of two core or three core beasts which was unlikely since Zirani and I had green pulse and she was planning on teaching a movent technique and a form a spatial travel which I was very much looking forward to. The one thing I was lacking in comparison to the others was speed. They were both faster than and while I had the most utility, if I wasnt fast rough to dodge a blow then I couldn't use it.
That brought back to the topic of the lost queen. She was one aspect of my power I wasn't using just like my divine bloodline, though while my divine bloodline was mysterious and hard to figure out, the lost queen was just, well, evil and hated my guts.
I sighed. Even so, I would need to figure sothing out since for the foreseeable future we were stuck together, however before I started in on that problem I wanted to try and see if I could make so headway with my divine bloodline. It was sort of a long shot, but it wouldn't hurt to try, and well the benefits would surely be great. After all, it had held its own and even defeated whatever power the lost queen held and when all else had failed, it had broken through the ntal manipulation of the hag.
I walked over to a nearby tree, and leaned up against it. I didn't really have much of a clue when it ca to how to approach using my bloodline, and it's not like I had my parents for help, if this power ca from them. Zirani didn't know what it was, and the only thing I'd learned from the hag was that it divine in nature. Did that an my mother or father were divine?
My mother was related to my aunt, and as far as I knew Jenna had never displayed any sort of golden power or anything odd so that only left my father who I knew nothing about. Although, my aunt had never really been in a situation that might bring out the power. Whoever had placed the seals on could have placed seals on her aswell.
My hand trailed up to the necklace I constantly wore, and I brushed a finger against it before shaking the thoughts away. Nothing good would co of thinking of my parents, and stirring my emotions. The trip across the scar was a few months and after that, I would be presumably heading to the green court so it would be a while before I got the chance to seek them out.
I took a deep breath and then focused on the center of my being, where my core was. My two cores shone brightly one a mix of greens and the other a shell of gold containing an ocean of bright white power that undulated like waves on an ocean. I wondered if that ant anything, that Zirani's core swirled calmly and slowly while the lost queen seed angry, and like it couldn't remain still. I checked and noted that she was still dormant so perhaps it was a reflection of their general mood or feelings. In that case, it made perfect sense since even if she'd stopped shouting and cursing at , it didn't an that her feelings had changed. She probably still hated and despised just as I did her, though not as much since she'd saved mine and Zirani's life.
With my eyes closed and focus on my inner being, I wondered how to go about conjuring the power since I couldn't really feel it all that well. I knew it was there like a sound or word that I knew but couldn't rember exactly. I tried to grasp at it, but it didn't budge.
I forward and tried again, pushing all my focus on that feeling. I imagined pulling it as I did aether from a core, but that just seed to cause a negative reaction and I winced as a sudden burst of pain blossod in my head. It faded quickly and my next attempt was more gentle as I tried to coax it out, but that didn't do anything and made feel slightly stupid. It was my power wasnt it, so why wasn't it listening to ?
Suddenly, I felt the lost queen awaken and her attention turned to , or more specifically what I was doing.
I waited for her to speak or do sothing but she remained silent so I continued. It was a bi9t distracting with her watching but I tried to ignore her as I attempted to command the power to co to , and for a second it seed like it would word but then it stopped and the small feeling of building power went with it.
I held back a sigh and jumped when I heard a snort in my head.
"Zirani?"
No, that hadn't been her, it had been the lost queen.
"You find sothing funny?" I asked, not really expecting a response.
"Apart from everything you are, yes," she replied much to my surprise. "In all my years I have never co across a being of divine descent who couldn't control their own power. That's like not being able to walk."
"Well I've never done it before," I said.
She chuckled. "Oh, that much is clear. At least there will be so form of amusent while I'm trapped here."
For a long mont, I was tempted to block her off but I'd promised I wouldn't, and I wasnt one to break a promise, not even with soone like her.
"Well… do you have any advice?" I asked. I didn't want to ask, but as Zirnai had said, I needed to try.
"None I shall give my jailer," She said coldly. "Perhaps if you set free."
"I don't think so." I shook my head. "You are not getting out of there."
"You think this will hold forever?"
I held back a laugh. "You know, you're not hiding your emotions, you haven't been since I trapped you in that core."
She was silent for but a second before I felt her slam her ntal walls down with the equivalent of a ntal growl.
There was no more talking after that, and I spent the next hour and a half trying and failing to get my divine power to do as I wanted. Multiple tis I got close, but only for a split second, and then it would retreat. There was sothing I was missing, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it.
At one point I was tempted to see what I could do with the ki in my second core, but almost imdiately Zirani sent a stern warning, and a few ntal images from her ti beyond the great scar of injuries people had received by trying to wield ki. The problem with ki was not gaining access to it. Ki was just aether without the shell, it was the control that was the problem and safely containing the power. That's why my second core was impossible. Zirani had never heard of a ki core, and she suspected that the only reason I was ok was because of the golden shell that was containing it.
In the end, I made little progress and stopped when the others returned.
Misty looked pleased as did Sandra. At least they'd had productive training.
"What's wrong?" Misty asked, noticing my frown.
"I can't get my divine power to do what I want, or even anything for that matter, and well." I sighed. "She… is not being so cooperative."
"Ti and patience," Zirani said. "Just keep trying."
"Yeah, I an at least you got her to talk to you this ti," Sandra added. "Better than shouting and curses."
Their words lifted my mood and I decided that I would prepare a proper al. Zirani could make a simple fire enchantnt and we had pots, pans, and other cooking utilities, not to ntion a ton of food, and before I'd left my aunt, she handed a book of her recipes that she'd created just for . I was eager to try a few of them out.
I'd still have that talk with them but first so food. If I did it beforehand then during the al their minds would be on other matters and not the delicious food I was planning on making.
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