Pick Your Poison

"Jack this is a very sound theory. My divinity lies in medicine and healing after all. it would make sense that being exposed to it would cleanse anything foreign from you."

"Right, and if so I just need to be exposed to it every now and again to make sure I don't build up to many toxic emotions from reading Shendu's memories."

"Jack, don't get too excited. There is a reason we gods have sealed our arcanum here on gekai. Direct exposure to it would kill you children or worse! If you are constantly exposed to my arcanum there is no telling what could happen even in small doses."

*Haha* "Don't worry it's just like any other medicine. Too small a dose is useless and too much will kill you. Besides I've got the perfect balancer right here." I point to my chest while assuring Lord Miach.

*sigh* "You have a point but are you sure you want to do this?"

"Hey what could happen? It's not like your divinity is in war or death right. The worst that could happen is I become more like you, and in my opinion we need more people like you in the world." He smiles at that and my enthusiasm seems to rub off a bit.

"Very well. Now that that is taken care of we better go help Naaza. I'm sure she will need some help setting up." With that he gets up and goes to help open shop.

The rest of the day was spent helping make around the shop while learning about making medicine. I kept wanting to go into the dungeon or to sleep but neither would work if I wanted to try connecting Naaza and Lord Miach in their dreams. So I decided to try to learn medicine making. It made for some interesting practice as I could compare what I learned from Naaza to what I learned from Shendu's memories. Unfortunately I didn't have enough of either to really compare.

"Naaza are you sure you're okay with this?"

"Yes Lord Miach it's fine don't worry." Naaza and Lord Miach are currently standing in front of a bed in pajamas fussing.

"Would you two both just go ahead and get into bed." I massage my forehead at the two's antics. Naaza is too nervous about getting to sleep with Lord Miach who believing it is for completely opposite reasons keeps trying to convince her it's okay not to do this.

"Jack, it is not right for unmarried people of the opposite sex to sleep together. I don't want Naaza to have to deal with the shame of having slept with me out of wedlock just for an experiment." He continues on with explaining why he doesn't want to force Naaza which keeps embarrassing and depressing her in turns. As much fun as it is to see her reactions I want to go to bed too.

"Alright that's it." Getting tired of the excuses I activate the rabbit charm, and as quick as possible I force Lord Miach's mouth open and force the sleeping potion down his throat.

*hack cough cough* "Jack! what was that for!"

"Now go to sleep and Naaza can decide whether to sleep with you or not after."

"Jack you can't ju...." Lord Miach tries to reprimand me but doesn't make it before the potion knocks him out cold. I quickly catch him as he slumps over and put him in the bed.

"Okay, now it's your turn Naaza." I turn to the slightly shocked cherianthrope who recovers after my comment.

"Did you have to knock him out like that?"

"Do you think the sun would rise before he was sure you were okay with this?" Naaza gets an exasperated look on her face at my comeback.

"Yeah, you're right. But still I wanted to at least try cuddling in the bed first."

"Don't worry if this works you will have him all to yourself for the entire night. Plus I dont think there is anything you can't do in your dreams. So make him take you out on a date somewhere special in there." She gets a faraway look in her eyes before blushing and shaking her head.

"You're right. I just need to make sure he makes it up to me with good dreams." She gets an excited smile on her face as I hand her the sleeping potion.

"Well the night won't last better get to it." She takes the potion and slips around Lord Miach in the bed.

"Sweet dreams"

*Haha* "Sweat dreams to you too Naaza"

Soon she's out like a light, and seeing they're both asleep I place my hands on their heads and use the sheep talisman. Nothing seems to happen so I keep channeling it. Unfortunately nothing changes so I eventually give up and step back to watch.

"I guess there's nothing I can really do at this point. Just hope I gave them enough juice to get the job done. Better channel the talisman till I run out to be sure." Thinking that more is better than less I focus my energy and pump energy through the talisman and into them until a slight headache comes.

"There if that doesn't work nothing will. Gotta leave some for me tonight afterall."

Back in my mind fortress I stand in a room looking at the piles of stolen scrolls.

"Well I've got piles of stuff here lets see if I can get it a bit more organized."

Summoning a few ninjas I get them to organize the memories according to their focus and get the one I'm most interested in.

"Meeting Rob. Honestly I just hope this is what I think it is. Considering the fact it either knocked me out or woke me up the emotions in this must be pretty strong."

I take the scroll with me to another room and sit down. I take a couple deep breaths to focus before opening it.