Shen carries Shinah to their fathers study. Our fathers guard Emel announces our arrival, opening the doors.
His hawk eyes like gaze over me, checking for signs of injury and sickness.
Aww Emel ...I'm so glad your okay, I was worried he'd be punished.
However knowing his personality he'd be more upset with himself, no punishment would alleviate the guilt he'd feel because I was 'poisoned' under his care.
I wink and mouth "I'm okay" silently as we pass Emel. The concern slowly fades from his gaze and he nods back.
Unknowingly to me, Shen catches our interaction and emits a wave of spirit energy towards Emel, glaring at him in passing.
"Knight Carson Emel, is it? You can return to your out-post, send a carrier bird summoning General Yun and the ambassadors from The Spirit Beast Kingdom for a meeting immediately." Shen directs Emel before closing the door.
"Baby Girl your home, how are you feeling? Akuma go call your Mother over." My father looks up from his work and gives Shen a knowing look.
Shen shakes his head and pulls out a cushioned chair.
I look at him through narrowed eyes. Nuh-uh take me with you..
"Be good I have to discuss things with father." He pats my head and plops me down on the chair pushing a plate of colorful cookies towards me.
I shoot him a hurtful look ...as I snatch a cookie. You can't distract me with food!
Ooo is that chocolate?
"Go about your business I got matters to attend here." I say with puffed up cheeks.
Shen chuckles and sits adjacent to my father, discussing the spirit stone information I gave him.
Shen tries to cultivate with the stone while my father kept watch. Then both excitedly strategize a plan to control the situation in The Spirit Beast Kingdom.
I silently munch on all the snacks, unsatisfied I look at my peach. It'd be so much better on a tart cake or shortbread or made into a jam. Ahh too bad I'm starving....
I cut the peach in half and cover the rest placing it in my sleeve pocket. I'll save that for Third brother.
I bite into the peach savoring the influx of natural spirit energy pool in my stomach. It swirls back up and assaults my first meridian. It flows into my first meridian coiling in comfort. I quickly shut my eyes looking into my direct line. What the hell.. why are my meridians unlocked?
I open my eyes and shove the rest of my peach in my mouth, hoping off the chair sitting crosslegged on the floor.
I close my eyes and slow my breathing, I quiet my thoughts and start chewing my peach slowly. I sense the natural energy pour into my mouth and I direct it to my first meridian. It swirls changing its natural bright pink color into a lighter shade, before shooting to the next meridian it continues all the way to my twelfth meridian. After it's stripped of all color its pulled into my direct line.
Drop by drop my little cup fills up to the brim overflowing.
Till .... an explosion disrupts the flow of energy, expanding the pool of my direct line from a small cup to a small bath.
Explosion after Explosion happen in to my body and direct line, as I level up my direct line pool grows wider. Growing and growing in size... only slowing down when my direct line pool becomes a wide unending ocean at low tide.
My body tenses and I feel the assault of Qi from outside my body being drawn into my pores.
I cycle the Qi into my meridian veins sucking in all types of spirit energy around me, filling up my ocean drop by drop again.
"Shinah Stop it!" I feel a slight electric current in the Qi I just pulled in. It shocks my meridians but I continue cultivating it.
Shit!!!
I slow my breathing and focus on cycling and purifying the lighting element energy slowly...
If I stop now the backlash...