Chapter 41

Within the flames she goes to try and see outside of the area. 'This is strange I can't perceive the world around me. All I see is flames. I hear the crackling of flames everywhere. There is only the smell of flame. At least I am not burning within these flames.

'However there should be a way to determine what is around me in Midyarle. I can't just blindly run around in here and then leave. How can I be sure I won't just appear in a random building or worse inside a cliff face with no way out.

'So first thing I need to do is perceive the outside world. It would also do me good to determine different things within the flames themselves. Now then first step is to hear the world outside of these flames.'

Paying attention to the flames themselves she is entrapped by the beauty for a moment. Felling the fierceness, warmth, and glow of the flames she smiles and relaxes her shoulders. Letting the flame engulf her she starts to meld into one with the flame.

As she melds into the flame she loses the feeling of her body. Feeling this lose of her body she panics. In her panic she is no longer within the flame but has her body. 'What was that? What just happened? Where did my body go? This is strange. I felt one with the flame to a degree. However my body just vanished.'

Slapping herself, 'get a hold of yourself. Panicking won't get you anywhere.' Shaking her head she calms down and breathes. Closing her eye, 'I started to become one with the flame somehow. As I did so I lost feeling of my body. Panicking brought back my body. I was getting lost in the beauty and majesty of the flames around me.

'There has to be a way to easily connect to the flames themselves. Getting lost in the beauty of the flames won't help me at all. I could get harmed with that. I need to stay level headed as I enter the flames like that.

'That may be my ticket to observing things outside of this area while still with in it. To bad this doesn't work through to. Wait it just might. I'll need to get with Nyx. If any of the others have I should do so with them as well. Would suck to let someone escape or attack me all because I couldn't locate them in another imbetwen area like this.'

As she figures out how to enter and merge with the flames, she pays attention to what she can observe. Looking around she sees the tree that she left Draemre at. Not seeing him there she goes to walk around.

As she walks around she is sees the different creatures and monsters around. 'I can see outside into Midyarle but why can't I hear a thing. This is strange its almost as if the flame itself is.' With a glint of her eyes, 'Of course the flame is able to burn the sound itself away. With all of this flame it should be able to burn through the sound or at least over power outside sound.

'So I should separate the flame that's closest to my ears. To let the sound get to me. But in this form where exactly are my ears. So that won't work, at least no while merged with the flame. I could always let the flames guide the sound instead.

'No I am thinking for when I have a physical body. I am one with the flames. My current form is malleable. I can just hear everything from the perspective of the flames themselves. I should open my mind to the flame itself.

'I am one with the flame right now anyway. What the flame is able to perceive I should be able to as well. I can try the other methods when I am not one with the flame. This is a strange state to be in. It's like I am fire incarnate. But I am still me and not fire.'

Letting go of herself she starts to perceive the world the same way that a flame does. Only seeing everything with a reddish tint and hearing the crackling of the noises that pass through the flame, she is disoriented.

Taking several minutes to steady herself she starts to move around. Locating Draemre she smiles. Walking back to the original spot she walks out no longer as a flame but as her normal self. Nodding her head she starts to experiment with summoning flames within her hands.

As she does so Draemre runs towards her. Seeing the panic that Draemre has she look forward seeing a few people chasing him. Anger flashing through her eyes she stands in their way. "Girl move! That is our prey," one woman sternly says.

"No Draemre is my panther. You all will stop right there and turn back," Amber crosses her arms.

"No that panther is just a wild magical beast," a man says.

"Little girl, don't expect us to believe what you have said. You can't possibly be a beast tamer already. Nothing you say well convince us of that," another man says.

Shaking her head with a sigh, "Only reason you don't want to believe it, is it makes no logical sense to you. You don't see how someone as young as me has already tamed a magical beast," Amber glares at them.

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