While Payal and Nell were dealing with confidential matters, Vikram's day was going quite differently.
Now that they had a safe night ahead of them, Vikram decided to run a small experiment to see the trend of Ether manipulation.
He retrieved the Ether manipulation machine he stored away before. He explained how to practice with the machine. Everyone took turns.
Looking at the results, Vikram realized - the common trend is to be only compatible with one type of Ether, i.e. one pattern of ether. Sure, if one is exceptionally talented, they can increase or decrease the power of Ether particles they are using, but changing the basic pattern, it's impossible.
Conversely, sensing that a certain ether particle is not compatible with them is easy. Sensing different kinds of ether particles needed talent.
For a moment, Vikram wondered if he was able to manipulate the ether as freely as he was because his soul had come back from another plane.
