Ideal

Sylas let the world fade around him. All he could feel was the energies of the Glass Pinecone. 

His senses peeled it apart layer by layer, but he knew that what he was trying to do was quite foolhardy. He should have just taken what the Glass Pinecone wanted to give him, but his stubbornness had won out in the end. 

The reason the Glass Pinecone felt like it was buried in layers of his body that were far too deep to reach was because it was likely in a layer deeper than Blood Essence. 

If Sylas was correct, then it was precisely the layer Gralith had spoken about before, the Will Manifestation layer of the body. That was a full four layers deeper than Blood Essence, which was all he could currently control. 

He had to rely on a sudden enlightenment to grasp Sparking Will the first time. Now, he was trying to actively make the changes himself all while communicating with a layer of his body that he had no intimate familiarity with.