The overwhelming promise of what's in plain sight

The feeling of aura flowing out of my body, separating from my soul and filling the seemingly bottomless hole of the stable gate's construct… 

It was overwhelming. 

As much as I tried my best to tame and control this process, it happened along its natural path, regardless of my attempts to change it. 

My soul literally thinned out as more and more of my energy fell down the abyss of the endlessly hungry gate. 

All the faint aura of unclaimed energy gravitating around my actual aura vanished and fed into the core of the construct. And before I could even properly notice, nearly half of what I foolishly believed to be a sizeable reserve evaporated without a single trace. 

'Stop!'

Gritting my teeth to the point they started to move within my jaws, I cut the supply of aura. The rebound of separating from the flow made me stumble back two steps before finally regaining stability. 

[Stable Gate remaining time: 40h]