"Stay still, Robb. Don't move!" Jon opened his eyes and said to his squirming brother for the nth time. They were both sitting under the Heart tree in the Winterfell Godswood while Sansa was some ways away playing with Arya by the swing.
"I've been sitting here for half an hour now," Robb said while massaging his legs, "My legs have gone numb. Aren't you done yet,"
"No, I am not,"
"Ugh! You're so stupid. What is even the point of this?" Robb asked.
"You don't need to know," Jon replied, "Don't move! Don't speak! or else the deal's off the table and I won't be buying you anything,"
Robb rolled his eyes but complied with his brother and sat like a stone. There was a cool far-eye that he had been dying to buy but Ned felt that it would be a waste, so he forbid Catelyn from buying it for him, but Jon promised him that he will buy it for his next birthday so he had to do what he said.
Jon closed his eyes and tried once again, he accessed his mind zone which had changed plenty since he got Pegasus. The mind sphere had expanded a lot, and the needle which represented Frost had been submerged halfway through into his mind sphere when it expanded.
The half-swallowed needle had the benefit of making warging into Frost a lot easier and faster, before he would have to concentrate for quite a while before he warged into frost, now he could do it in a matter of minutes.
Another thing that had changed was that a new needle had appeared a while back on the opposite side of Frost's needle, while it was still away from his mind sphere and hasn't touched it yet, he was sure that this one represented Pegasus.
But it wasn't the time to admire his new acquisition, so he focused back on the task at hand. He tried to do what he did when he warged into frost but instead of an intent focused on the needle representing his feathered friend, he sent a scattered intent outward without a focus like he unconsciously did when he met pegasus for the first time.
For quite a while he felt nothing, he was just blindly searching in the dark without any idea of what he was looking for exactly except for a vague feeling.
When he still didn't get a result after 5 minutes, his hopes started dwindling as he wondered if he hadn't imagined the feeling after all. But just when he was about to give up, his consciousness came into contact with something—it was feeble at first but after a few seconds, he started to get a feel for the shape.
The thing, which he was sure was Robb's consciousness, was a weird squiggly shape somewhat like a sphere but with a lot of bumps and flailing tentacles on the surface. It was a lot smaller than his but it definitely felt similar to Jon's own mind sphere.
Suddenly the sphere representing started getting fainter and farther before it immediately disappeared which broke his concentration and got him out of his mind zone. And when he opened his eyes, it was to find his brother sneakily crawling away which explained everything.
*Cough**Cough*
Robb abruptly turned his head around and found Jon glaring at him, "Um... I thought you had already fallen asleep...Hehe..."
"You can forget about the Far-eye now," Jon said flatly.
"NO! You promised!"
"So you do know what that word means," Jon said standing up and going toward his sisters, with Robb following after him and trying to persuade him that he was just stretching and was not going to run away.
They played for a while in the godswood, just the four stark siblings, and happily went toward the Great hall for their dinner when the sun started going down.
Over the next few days, the staff of Winter was kept on their toes at all times because their Lord's bastard son had taken to randomly select a person and follow them around while they worked. When they stopped for a while to do some chores, he would just close his eyes and stand still there for a while, and after some time open his eyes with a gleam of triumph before thanking them and going away.
At first, the staff thought of that as the latest prank concocted by their Lord's son, and the absence of the other one, Robb, only made them warier and kept them looking over their shoulders even after Jon had moved on to his next target.
At the family dinner a few days later, the atmosphere had turned a little awkward because Jon was trying to glare a hole into his nemesis's head and Catelyn was starting to get antsy, and it didn't help that she was pregnant again.
"What are looking at?" Catelyn asked with gritted teeth after finally losing her patience.
"Nothing, Just wondering if you've turned even more beautiful," Jon smiled which seemed to unnerve Catelyn, even more. She kept on looking at Jon, waiting for the other shoe to drop, but Jon looked away with some satisfaction after a while as if he had found what he was looking for.
Jon was very happy with the results he had gotten from the experiments he had conducted over the last few days. And an unintended side-effect of regularly using his skill, which he had dubbed Mind Sense, on various people was that now he didn't have to close his eyes anymore to use it, which he just successfully tried when he used mind sense on Catelyn.
The first conclusion he reached from his experiments is that all people have different shapes of consciousness, and most of them including Catelyn just have squiggly shapes made of different thoughts that are not even closely related to a sphere.
But on the other side, all the Starks have their consciousness in a shape that is very close to a sphere, and while not as large as his sphere of consciousness, the sizes of their minds are also a lot larger than the rest of non-starks.
And Jon knew that the Starks had gotten the talent to warg from one of their ancestors, so from all that information it was easy for him to conclude what qualities a person's SOC (Sea of Consciousness) needs to have to be a potential warg, which would definitely be a boon for his future endeavors.
There was another benefit of him running around and randomly using his mind sense on the people of Winterfell. Because as he slowly got better and faster at using mind sense, it unknowingly also improved his warging into Frost a lot and also made the process a lot smoother and quicker.
It only takes Jon now about a second to go close his eyes and warg into Frost, and about two seconds to collect information about the surroundings from Frost's senses before exiting her body and coming back into his, which also takes no more than two seconds— so all in all in 5 seconds he could warg in and out of Frost.
That increased speed of his warging skill made it a lot more useful and would definitely be mighty helpful in a lot of situations in the future.
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Name change, A Jon Snow SI —>
1. The Warg Lord
or
2. Lord of Wargs
Which one should I pick?
P.S.-> DId I just give a spoiler?
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