A New Magic

I lucked out for today. I helped Anne up till the end where she got to complete her lessons from Penny. It's starting to get colder at night. Fall is upon us and Winter is just around the corner. I'm beginning to wonder how things are going to change when the season does. I'm still struggling with the fact that I've been here for as long as I have. How much longer will I be here? I'm beginning to question a lot more than I have been. I've been kept busy for so long that I've never let my mind wander into that territory.

The cabin is cozy though. I light the fireplace with the wood that is still inside. The small space quickly warms up to where I relax in the chair at the desk. I still have the book that I was looking at when I left there. They're all old information to me now. My trip to the library brought me well above the information presented in these. Do I have any books that have something I didn't pick up? I hope so.

I bring the ones from the desk back to the shelf. They fit in the empty spots they had left before. I look for something that strikes me as something I would enjoy. I can't seem to really find anything though. There's a lot about some of the most basic elements but I need more than that. I feel that I've already passed that point. I can't focus. I look over the book titles but nothing seems to catch my attention. I can't really seem to keep my eyes together on anything. I pick up a random book just to do something. It gets tossed onto the desk as I look outside at the darkness.

There are just a few lights outside in the garden. They're projecting a small warm glow that does not reach me. The little light that I have is enough to keep to myself. I don't know what I grabbed. Flipping to a page it comes up to an example of something that resembles radar that a bat may use to see in the darkness. It sends out a ping of magical energy that reverberates back translating to an image or feeling of where everything is. This might be useful. What does it use though?

Some messed up mixture of cognito, visum, and sonus propelled or powered by motus and praecantatio? What is this mess? The drawing is so crude that I'm not even sure I could do all the links and connections. The amount of material needed is insane! If I'm looking at this right it's a total of 122 parts for only five meters. That's ridiculous. The eyeglass I came up with was only 14 at most. I don't think I know enough to make this simpler. This may be hard to do just as it is though. I look through a few other pages but nothing really catches my eye. This may be a good test for myself.

I take the book outside standing in the open grass in front of my door. With the book in my paw, I look it over making sure that I understand the focal points. This is supposed to be a quick cast spell focusing on just a few points but needed more components. Simply put, focus, multiply the power, and release. Maybe this will be simple.

I take a breath focusing myself. I take my focus, and with one quick burst throw out what I see in my mind as a ring straight out. It feels like something came back and hit me from all directions in different ways. I open my eyes to look around me. I think I felt the cabin behind me with a few trees further out. It didn't feel as though it went very far. With a little extra power behind it maybe I can get somewhere. I try again altering the focus just a smidge. I boost it up with pure praecantatio for just raw power. With a deep exhale I release everything. I can feel a small breeze from the power being released. The grass below me waves with it. Almost immediately I feel everything bouncing back to me. I can't tell what they are but it is as if there is something there.

With a little more work I feel that I may be able to identify what some common things are. I want to keep trying this though. I wonder if I can constantly pulse it out? There are a lot of questions about this spell. I'm beginning to see practical uses with it. I start with small areas with light pulses as I move around feeling everything else comes in differently.

I can only do it in short bursts of a few seconds but it seems to be able to work well. I still can't figure out what anything is without looking at it. It comes back like sticking your paw in water. You slowly feel it the deeper you stick it in until it passes you. With the pulse, it feels like small waves of water are hitting you multiple times and at different frequencies when I'm moving. I'm going to need to practice with this. There's no way around it.

Even with the prospect of having a lot of work ahead of me, finding something that was challenging made me rather excited to continue. A spell like this could be really useful for many things. I just need to watch how often I use it. I can feel it becoming rather tiring after multiple uses over a wide area. But for today, I will push my limit and see how far I can go with it.