Gladys and Aurora left the soul-space and returned to the world of the living in this dimension. The instant Gladys revived a vortex formed around her soul rapidly depraving the surrounding of mana. Gladys is feeling like she is completely filling her lungs with air for the first time in a long long time, very much like she has just taken off a tight corset after a party and immediately taking a deep breath, but being mana instead of air. It is an incredible feeling, and of course it is, she has left behind the shackles of the normal cycle of reincarnation of this world and has taken a glimpse of the true nature of mana. She has taken the first step to transcend to a new level of existence and become a master of reincarnation, a being for who life and death has a completely different meaning.
Aurora's mana is like a thick sphere of plasma enveloping her soul, unlike normal mana that could be compared to a gas, Aurora's mana has the distinct feature of having a clear boundary, but more importantly her will is transferred almost unhindered inside this space and extremely violent changes can happen in an instant, like electricity being transferred through plasma. Aurora can compress or alter to some degree the shape of her mana through it's boundary, and she can let ambient mana flow inside the boundary with or without getting mixed with her own mana, this way she let her mother access the ambient mana while near her.
On the other hand, Gladys mana has no clear boundary between the ambient mana, is just like her soul generates a gravitational pull that passively attracts nearby mana ... until now. At this moment, and because Aurora screwed up increasing this "gravitational pull" too much, there was a spin vector added on the last layer of mana covering Gladys soul, creating a mana vortex that was progressively stronger the closer to her soul. This allowed Gladys' ability to use or sense mana to be greatly enhanced, but there was a tiny little problem: the vortex has an effect on every other living being (besides Aurora) around her, making them feel lightheaded and even forcefully transmitting part of their emotions to Gladys by incorporating their mana into the vortex; moreover if Gladys was not a little careful she could actually kill people not trained in the use of mana around her if the vortex got too strong as a consequence of her emotions getting out of control.
This qualitative change in her mana was actually not fully noted at first by Gladys, what she noticed, and make her awe in the greatness of daughter, was that her mana sense has expanded to somewhat clearly see/feel her daughters mana, which is clearly different from others and is covering the entire room without getting mixed with the normal mana around. At first it felt so powerful that was almost oppressive, it was not until her mana vortex grew enough to go beyond the boundaries of her daughters mana that the sense of being trapped in a jar vanished and she felt a mix of relief and regret.
Meanwhile, Aurora decided to take Aaron proposition, even just for being able to download the AI. Those things were a great tool and not only made life much easier but also gave Aurora someone to talk to from her own world, even if it was an intelligent computer program. After finally being satisfied with her doing with Gladys, she briefly communicated her that she was going to sleep and she won't wake up until tomorrow, telling Gladys to guard her from danger. After that she starts the installation shutting down her consciousness to protect it from the whole process, specially because it requires to allocate a part of her own brain to create a second personality for the use of the AI and that could be a traumatic if awake.
After seeing her daughter close her beautiful eyes, Gladys kiss Aurora's forehead and finally start her first motherly duty: stay alert to protect her daughter. Using her increased mana sense that seems to encompass all the manor even if she can only perceive faintly what is at the outskirts, she starts to scan for anomalies and what she find is ... not good.
A quarter of the servants, especially the ones around her room, have fainted, are slowly crawling on the floor like wounded worms or are too weak to move around, the rest of them are either praying to the spirit of light for protection or moving around in panic while trying to help the rest leave the manor while telling something about curses and evil spirits. Apparently her husband has taken Luis to the Annex house and was now running towards her room. "Oh, crap, this is going to be a pain to explain" thought Gladys while sighing.
"Gladys!" says Sid while entering the room in panic looking for his wife and daughter. "Greetings again Sid, I hope you don't get too mad with me but it seems that I made a little mishap that caused you trouble." says Gladys with a demure smile while holding her daughter. "What do you mean?!, You know what happened?!" half-shouts Sid while walking towards her wife in big strides ... until he is about 2 meters away, then he stumbles a little while feeling light-headed. Sid opens his eyes in realization, finally feeling that Gladys and Aurora are at the center of the whole incident. At this distance even Sid was affected by the mana vortex of Gladys.
Sid turns to look at his sleeping daughter convinced that she is far more dangerous than he initially thought and ponders for a second if it wouldn't be the best for everyone to finish her life before an accidental massacre occurs, he couldn't help but remember the way the face of his son, his heir, turned white as a sheet and being almost dropped to the ground when Berta half-fainted just a minute ago. It was a good thing that Rita immediately caught them both. Of course is just an intrusive thought that he would never had acted upon.
At this distance Gladys can easily feel the change in emotions of her husband through his mana and in a second the temperature of the room drops by at least 10°C while Gladys mana vortex starts to spin faster and faster. "C-calm down Gladys! I am not going to harm Aurora, she is my daughter too.", Sid realizes almost immediately that her wife has somehow read his thoughts and was prepared to protect Aurora at any cost, moreover this whole incident is the effect of her incredible ability to absorb ambient mana to the point of depriving other beings from it, almost like ... a dragon.
"I'm sorry Sid, it seems I'm a little upset, probably the hormones", even after calming down the temperature of the room was still a little chilly. "I hope you don't treat me any different, but apparently Aurora shared with me a piece of her gift and increased my ability to use mana. Is a little unstable for now but I'm sure I will get used to it in no time. Meanwhile, what you think of sharing with the servants some diluted mana potions to improve their condition?"
Sid was completely flabbergasted, can a blessing be shared even if it is between mother and child? "Tell me, do you know what kind of blessing Aurora posses?" Even if it is something dangerous, knowing about it's nature could help decrease the danger and even eventually allowing to control it.
"Well ... to begin with I think that she is at least blessed by the Spirit of Light and the Spirit of Time and Space, however now I believe that in addition to those she has the blessing of another spirit, but it is a little outrageous. Do you really want to hear the ramblings of a mother?" says Gladys condescendingly, almost implying that the little brain of Sid won't be able to accept the truth. "Just tell me woman, I will be the one to decide if your words have some merit" says Sid with a little mirth in his voice.
"I think it is the blessing of the Spirit of Twilight", this outrageous words were proffered by Gladys as something normal making the already light-headed Sid to almost stagger. "And why do you think a Spirit whose mere existence is a myth, wait, no ... scrap that, a Spirit whose sole name is an interpretation of the god-like existence of an ancient religion, a spirit that has never ever blessed a single human being, has blessed our daughter?"
"Well Sid, it is believed that the Spirit of Twilight divided all things in the world to create a duality in every important aspect: good and evil, light and darkness, male and female, and most importantly: life and death. As you know, the Spirit of Twilight is the name given by humans to the God-like existence that according to dragons blessed the dragon empress and gave the ancient dragons the ability to exist beyond the boundaries of life and death."
"Yes, I know, according to the dragons the first true pure-blooded dragon was the dragon empress that gave her breed the power to reincarnate after their deaths 10,000 years ago, therefore giving place to the existence of the 12 ancient dragons, 5 of which are still 'alive' today and one them is the Patron of this kingdom. According to the story, every time one of them die they can be reborn 10 years later from an egg layed by the dragon empress. However, that is just a story the dragons tell the humans and there is no real proof other that the knowledge the ancient dragons have seems to be consistent with the historical events recorded. What does anything of that has to do with Aurora?" This discussion about basic dragon lore is getting ridiculous, thought Sid, maybe her wife is really loosing it. But then again, what about her inexplicable increase of power?
"Well Sid, as I told you, I think Aurora has the blessing of the Twilight Spirit. She can transcend life and death and help others transcend it too. Have you not been listening to me?" Gladys looked at Sid as he was a little dumb. "And do you have a speck of something resembling evidence to back up those words?" says Sid in an incredulous tone. "Of course, I am the witness and proof, thanks to Aurora now she and I share a connection that transcends the boundaries of the mortal world." The confidence in Gladys's voice really threw Sid out of the loop for a second.
After a small awkward silence, "Yes, I understand ... you are tired. Rest for now. Meanwhile I will make sure someone brings you something to eat while I deal with this whole incident. I will bring a priest tomorrow to see if he can at least help us confirm if Aurora has the blessing of the Spirit of Light." after saying this Sid slowly walk away to exit the room.
"Sure Sid, that would be for the best", says Gladys in a patronizing tone.