"Gyo!" Silver acted as if he is trying hard to use Gyo in his eyes. Then, after a minute he 'succesfully' used Gyo and looked at Lara and saw her still in Zetsu.
Then a thought hit him. "Can you let me observe you control your Aura nodes in your fingers? Just wanted to see if I can get something out of it." He excitedly said while his heart is pounding.
"I'm not sure what you are on about but it won't help you with anything." Lara doubtly answered.
"Pretty please?" Silver used his cute appearance as a kid and watched Lara with wide expectant eyes.
'Ahhh! How cute. How could I reject those eyes of yours.' "Fine.." She then showed her forefingers like a handgun. She then concentrated on the Aura nodes on the tip of the fingers and activated Ren. Her whole forefingers exuded aura like a normal Ren. Then she changed it to Ten where the aura reigned in a little as a coat of armor to the fingers and finally back to Zetsu.
"Got anything from it?" Lara asked and looked at Silver. For a moment, she thought she saw Silver's blue eyes to be scarlet-ish on the edges. She looked at them again and found nothing out of the ordinary.
Getting no answers from the kid, she asked again. "Hey! I said did you get anything?"
Silver was pulled away from his stupor. "Ahhh sorry, what was it again?
Lara again asked him the same question.
"Oh, I didn't get anything from it." Silver answered.
Lara looked at him suspiciously but still accepted the answer. "Okay, break time is over. I'll get back to my work and you go back to where you've been hiding."
"Roger!" Silver uncharacteristically answered.
Noticing the playful tone. "On your toes then, cadet." Lara then went back to the river's direction.
When Lara is already out of sight, Silver looked at his forefingers and activated Ren on both of them. 'So Aura Nodes are just another Nen technique if I don't need to use Hatsu to copy them. Now this puts a smile on my face.' He grinned.
Silver then tried to create 123456789 and was successful up to the 6th digit. He then tried to use the middle finger and was able to go until 4th digit easily and the 5th digit with a little more time.
Then, without any further delay he activated his Manbat bat ears and jumped on the trees to continue his lookout and training.
The rest of the afternoon ended without any surprises.
"Would you look at that? No one was hurt today. That calls for a celebration." Nellie happily clapped her hand.
"Of course, no one was hurt. I don't have the unlucky charm with me." Grylls pointed to Silver.
"Hey!!! I'm only unlucky when I'm with you." Silver answered back.
"Hahaha. True that." Grylls ruffled Silver's hair for a while before letting go.
During Training Session that night, Lara just repeated chapter 23 exposition before leaving Silver to take in everything she said.
[Wifey Note: Nani? Lazy author is lazy!]
After that, Silver went back to his tent. He already knew what Lara imparted so everything just went from one ear and exited the other. He then eagerly went to his meditation stance.
'What should I train next, should I go with the left palm or the left ear?' Silver contemplated. Despite Lara's words that it is not always easy to learn to control them, he learned to control the node in his right ear 30 minutes before Lara called that they should head back. Similar to what happened to the other nodes, he found controlling Nen in his right ear area easier and faster afterwards. And now when using Gyo with Batears, he found out that he could extend his echolocation to about 175 meters.
'I'll go with the left ear for now. The benefits of extending my hearing far surpass my needs to increase my strength.'
Silver altered his ears again to look like a bat. Then the mental image of the camp 50 meters in radius flooded him.
He saw Marco in his tent holding and reading books while the seraph lies to his side. He could hear him mumble 'Read these books a hundred times, yet I could not find any other clues. Where are you hidden?'
Near the campfire Bradford and Grylls are still talking with each other. How they never run out of things to talk to, also bothers the author.
Nellie as usual is an early sleeper. She has the task to cook for breakfast early in the morning, after all. She always wakes up by 5am on the dot.
Similar to Nellie, he saw Slade sleeping peacefully. He knew from the time he spent training at night that Slade sleeps early as well, then wakes up at 4am to do his rounds.
He thought that both Nellie and Slade are really similar in some way. Both are dedicated on their assignment.
Then, he saw the mental image of Lara on her tent taking a new set of clothes from her bag. Then Lara started taking off her clothes to change before going to bed.
Silver was stunned with wide eyes. *Gulp*
<10 minutes later>
'What was that?' Silver shook his head away from the 'huge' distractions. 'I should be practicing right now.'
Silver spent an hour before completely ridding himself of the distraction that raised an entirely different node and started practicing to control the Node in his left ear.