16.Reunion
Yui's talent in water magic was colossal, not catching up with mine, but he was definitely several times better than ordinary magicians. In fact, she could have started training on her own, but in order to increase the efficiency of the time spent, we decided to study together, and it was a great opportunity for her to be with me more often.
After that conversation about our spiritual connection, Yui, with my permission, under my supervision, began experimenting with this connection. In the course of her research, she discovered that with a shortage of her energy, she could borrow mine. Of course, this is provided that I am not too far away from her. That is, she could train until she fell, but it was still harmful to practice magic more than necessary.
My higher-quality energy, when used for a long time, shakes her energy, but with small doses, such practice will only benefit her. Her own energy will try to catch up with the characteristics of mine a little bit. A kind of double cultivation...
Another feature of our relationship was its gradual development, the transition to another, higher level. Last week, when she couldn't find me, Yui tried to reach me with her emotions, attempts were made to at least find my location, which, of course, did not work due to the distance, but it gave an unexpected result. With my appearance, with our simultaneous concentration on communication, there is the possibility of full-fledged telepathic communication, where every sentence and word can be emphasized with some kind of feeling, that is, this type of communication is no worse than a simple conversation.
The thought came to my mind that I just don't want to leave there. What if you give a piece of yourself to someone else? Will this make a magician out of a simple person? Will the magicawaken?
Many different factors played into the situation with Yui. Firstly, we are close relatives, so our energy sources do not differ much. Secondly, at that time she was a baby, which means that her energy had to be plastic, and most importantly, all her ancestors were from the tribe of water. My energy consists of neutral and watery, that is, you need to take into account my element.
I think if I had given a part of myself to a native of the fire nation, it is unlikely that he would have awakened the magic of water. It's worth thinking hard about, I'm ready to walk without water magic in order to enhance my environment. Hmm, I could give my particle to Kaya. She gave birth to Katara, who is a future magician, so she herself is close to awakening the water source.
There are no irreversible consequences after the birth of Yui. Then it turns out that I definitely did not give away a piece of my soul, it seems that if I had done something like this, the situation would have been much, much worse. If you remember, at that time, my sources were stabilizing, but because of my actions, this process was postponed for another year.
Most likely, I shared a piece of my gift of magic... It took about one year for his full recovery, but it must be borne in mind that at that time the sources were not even activated, now having an average spirit rank, and fully activated sources, this procedure should take much less time. For me, this is a profitable exchange, it remains only to open the first chakra, so as not to be completely defenseless, if I still decide to do this.
One day, we discussed with my parents the approximate schedule of my trips to the Southern Water Tribe. This month they asked to stay at home, and from the next it was decided to visit the other pole at least several times a month. Most likely, I will go there for a day or two every week, it would be possible more often, but it is better to limit myself in advance so that there is time left to comprehend the elements and my experiments with blood magic, which I want to start conducting in the next month.
Today I need to finish everything in time, tomorrow I will go to the south Pole. It is also worth remembering to take some small animals with me, I think over time I will be able to reduce energy consumption in order to protect not only myself during the transition.
***
This month has been very productive in terms of improving my skills in healing magic. Back in the Southern Water Tribe, when I examined every resident, I managed to notice sores that, not being healed in time, could develop into more severe forms of diseases in the future. In the North Pole, they are used to going to healers only if they are already completely unbearable. It seems to me that the inhabitants of the North Pole will have no fewer different sores than I found in our southern brethren...
Having come to the Healing Huts, under the supervision of more senior and experienced colleagues, I was able to prove my belonging to those healing masters who can treat the most severe difficult injuries. It was another fat plus to my reputation.
The idea of mass prevention of the population with healing magic prompted me to think about the lack of practice in this magic. During these few days as I became, one might say, a senior healer, only three people came to visit us with severe injuries – this is very little for my development.
I had to dodge and convene a meeting at which I raised this topic so that this issue could be resolved as soon as possible. To do this, I decided to hold a small demonstration, otherwise I know how this apparatus of power works, while it is rocking, it may take more than one month for all this to be discussed.
Having selected people who were most likely to be affected by any injuries or illnesses, I asked their permission to diagnose their health condition. As I expected, everyone had injuries that caused them varying levels of discomfort. There was nothing urgent or fatal there, so I was able to cope with the treatment quickly enough, but what was the effect!
Each of them felt much better, and even had to ask the participants of the meeting to go to the Healing Huts and sign up there, because seeing the results with their own eyes, they wanted to carry out healing procedures right here and now. Who hasn't accumulated some sores with age?
Everyone has them, but they would not have guessed about such prevention themselves, yet there is some narrowness of thinking here. Here they go to healers, only when injuries such as burns, broken bones or wounds with sharp weapons appear, in fact, everything that can be obtained during sparring, war or unsuccessful hunting.
Healers have never experienced such a load before, even during the war there were not so many visitors, but each new cured person was a living advertisement and proof that healers should not be underestimated. Residents, seeing even greater benefits in healers, began to enroll in healing courses on a massive scale. Even ordinary people would like to be able to provide first aid, but knowledge has accumulated here not only on healing magic alone. We had to rebuild the old building in an emergency mode, making it many times larger. No one expected such an influx of new students, even some male water magicians came, and there were only a few of them, but this is already an indicator.
In the early days, I had to deal with a lot of different illnesses and injuries, but they were mostly mild or moderate, which would not help me move on. After thinking about this situation, I decided to ask all other healers to send me only patients with severe form, or those whom they themselves could not cure.
I repeat once again, this month has been super fruitful, such a leap in understanding healing magic will probably be difficult to achieve. Most of the serious illnesses were no longer an obstacle for me, only really incomprehensible and strange cases remained a serious burden for me. I began to understand the vital energy itself better, "adding" it to the water no longer cost any mental effort at all, even it itself became more malleable for me. There are advantages everywhere.
It was found out that the main organ of vital energy is the heart, no, every part of the body interacts with this energy, but it is the heart that appears here as the first among them. Acting on the blood with its vital energy, there are already considerable chances, somehow acting on it, to get the longevity I so desire. In fact, the body begins to age when the vital energy, having already reached its peak, is declining, but if you succeed every time at least a little bit, but you can live much longer to increase its quality or quantity.
Interacting with magic and qi, I was able to understand that life energy is more material, in fact, people on lion turtles used it more. Only then did they receive their gift of magic, and forgot their "roots". Magic is more immaterial, but in order for a magician to use it, he must conduct it through his body through certain energy centers, which was shown when Aang took magic from Ozai. Another example is Korra, who was also deprived of magic, because, in fact, she had magic herself, you just can't use it at all. You can say that you have a router (magic) that consistently distributes Wi-Fi, but the laptop (your body) does not have the right driver to use the Internet. I agree, this is not a great example, but it seems to have described everything closely...
Having made great progress in healing magic, I wanted to try blood magic. It seems that Hama began to practice it on rodents during the full moon, but this is possible not only during that time, it's just that the magic of water is much stronger precisely at the full moon.
It was not difficult to find rodents, it seems that small pests adapt and survive in any environment. I don't know exactly how many years or months the Hama studied this, but for the whole month I could only feel the blood itself, and then the echoes were very weak, and there was no question of any impact. Patience is needed here, okay, there is still time, I can move step by step in this direction.
It is much easier to influence my blood, I even managed to start developing a new technique, which I called a bloody puppet, I think it will come in handy on the farm. This technique will be in case someone like Tai Li manages to beat off the sensitivity of limbs. In this technique, by saturating my blood with energy, I take it under my control. Now the movements are too jerky and jerky, but once I get the hang of it, I think I can use it at least in some kind of battle, well, or I can just escape with it.
I would like to try to learn how to collect moisture by draining plants and trees, but here at the north Pole there is absolutely trouble with flora. I will either have to start learning this without being here anymore, or immediately start experiments on collecting water from the air, which seems to me much harder.
I found out when the next solstice would be, as it turned out, it would be only four months later. I would like to get a closer date, but I really couldn't wait to find out if I could absorb the spirit of another element and get its element. That would open up a whole lot of room for all sorts of actions.
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The Southern Water Tribe
Kaya
Almost a whole month has passed since Yuki left us. In a matter of a week, bursting into the life of our tribe, he became the guiding star that all the inhabitants of our small tribe began to strive for. It's like everyone started living anew, seeing his efforts, it's hard not to start doing something yourself. Now the older generation is actively teaching wisdom to teenagers and children, not a single day in the tribe goes by without some pleasant fuss.
It was only now that I realized how calm my soul felt in his presence, I am ashamed to admit, but I did not feel such support even from Hakoda.
I hope he will return as soon as possible, Katara comes to the place of his appearance every day in the hope of seeing him again, Sokka goes there with her every time, while each time making excuses, after all, what kind of boy is he... Son is still ashamed to admit to himself that and for him, Yuki became a close person.
So Katara runs here, most likely to ask for a "walk" outside the village again, but at the same time, as always, she will run to that exactly place.
- Mom, Sokka and I wanted to go for a walk behind the wall, can we? – as required to be proved, some people got the hang of making a begging face, after all, it worked flawlessly on Yuki.
- Well, but before sunset, you have to be at home, – do not forbid her, she will run there anyway even without permission. Eh-heh, from whom does she have such a restless character. This is probably from Kanna, who, according to the stories, was still a rebel in her youth.
I didn't have time to notice how the sun had almost disappeared below the horizon, which means it's time for the kids to return. Although I can walk there myrself, I still haven't been outside for almost a whole day. Just about to put on a fur coat, I heard a joyful hubbub on the street. Looking out from behind the door, I could see the crowd that was gathering in the center of our new settlement. What joyous thing could have happened?
As I approached the main mass of people, they managed to make way for a smiling Yuki, who was carrying a happy Katara on one arm, who was holding onto his neck with both hands. With his other hand, he was ruffling Sokka's hair, who was trying to show himself more calm at their meeting, but the corners of his mouth were lifting in a smile.
I didn't even notice how I smiled at him, my soul immediately became much calmer. He returned as promised.