Le Potage Part 1

**( Altair's POV)**

I got up in the middle of the night. I had plenty of time to rest but now I had things to do and power to accumulate. Most importantly I had to tie some loose ends so it doesn't come and bite me in the ass.

I tiptoed in towards the door of my room. As I lightly opened the door I saw two guards against the door. I bent down and lightly touched his ankle from the gap between his legs. I got a huge amount of information about his body, however, I focused my mind to ignore the oncoming information and focused my powers on his brain.

I activated a tiny cluster of cells at the base of the brain called the supraoptic nucleus. Doing the same with the other guard, I closed the door. I waited for a minute or so till I heard dull thuds from the door. I opened the door to see both of them on the floor unconscious, I can castrate them right this moment and they won't feel a thing until they wake up.

I have time until early in the morning when the shifts will change and they will patrol the castle. If you think I was wasting my time or sleeping while cradled in my father's study then you take me for a complete fool. I heard all his conversations, I know everything from how much grains are produced this year to how many prisoners are there in the sky cells. So knowing the guard's patrol schedule is no big deal.

I made my way through the corridors, avoiding as many guards as possible through my small body and shadows of torchlight. In a few places where I couldn't avoid the guards, I knocked them unconscious the same way.

Reaching outside the maester's chamber I used two cloak pins to unlock the primary lock. I opened it slightly, watching the maester and a girl asleep naked on the bed tucked in the covers. I put my tiny hand through the gap and jumped up removing the chain latch behind the door.

I quietly entered the room and lightly touched both of them. I used my power and knowledge to lightly sever the connection between the brain and all the motor nerves in the spine. This paralyzed them completely while still keeping their involuntary functions active. If I sever all their nerves their hearts and lungs will stop and they will lose control of their bowels and bladders. That would be too unsightly.

I wake both of them up by slapping their faces. As their sensory nerves are okay they can feel the pain and touches. I touched the maesters body and started by having all his sensory nerves feel pain. His nerves started to constantly send signals of burning, stabbing and tearing in a repetitive cycle.

Due to this unimaginable amount of pain or should I say the maximum amount of pain physically possible to feel. His brain's natural defences started acting up as it was trying to sever all connections and go unconscious. However, I started taking care of all those problems which popped one by one. Some of which even I didn't know were possible. Ah! this is a great learning experience.

Just as I was controlling his brain from shutting down, I also was trying to keep other organs which started behaving abnormally in control. Preventing hormonal glands which start to release hormones such as endorphins, adrenaline, etc. Preventing heart rate, blood pressure or breathing rate from behaving abnormally. A few moments later I had taken down all the body defences. I must say life never stops amazing me. The human body has complex arrays of defences and robust strategies to adapt to myriads of external stimuli.

I can only do this with my power as in those two minutes I learned more things about the human body than my entire past life. I wanted to save the maester for last as I looked into his eyes and face with extreme pain and licked my lips. As some of the nerves on his face and eyes are not connected to his spine, I forgot to disconnect them. However, this is a good result as only part of his body that is not flooded with pain and in his control. I could see very enjoyable expressions through his eyes and the twitch of his facial muscles.

Leaving the maester aside to enjoy his own sweet time I turned to the maid. My most important learning goal for now is to delve into the secrets of human brain. This is very important as I know next to nothing about the human brain and its functioning. Heck, even to most skilled doctors brain is an untold mystery.

Also, it was very hard to find subjects to conduct neurological experiments. You can't experiment on the dead and you also cannot just perform neurological experiments with anyone and everyone you touch. Any mistakes and wrong steps can have dire consequences. Also, making someone crazy or brain dead by touching them is not a good sign in Westeros here there is extreme phobia towards magic. If found out you will be burned to death on stakes. Even if you explain your experiments it is useless as live human experiments are frowned upon, how do you think Qyburn got kicked out of the citadel

I first started working on my body and then spent the rest of the time researching. I decided to spare her from the pain and left only essential nerves working. I started using biomass and tissues from parts of her body to start reinforcing my body. I compressed my muscles as much as possible with my current knowledge, I strengthened ligaments and tendons. I even strengthened muscles that were impossible to physically strengthen through exercise.

I wasn't able to conduct thorough modifications while I was eating meatballs as most of the biomass in meatballs was consumed in stabilizing my body. I could only do a few basic upgrades.