Author's notes:
About the language and notation:
The Baylon language is a predecessor to Latin, which is why it looks like Latin at a glance.
Mental communication is denoted by a < and ends with a >, so a mental communication will look like this: "< Who are you? >"
Some warnings
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This is erotic action adventure, meaning that there will be both sex and violence, but I don't mix the two.
This story is posted on the Literotica website and the author does not give permission for it to be reposted or reprinted anywhere else without consent.
P.S. I haven't gotten an editor yet, so any mistakes are mine. Interested editors are welcome :)
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Chapter 23 -- The Power of Pleasure
Wednesday, 21st of June 2000, Outside Malaga, Spain
"God, this is frustrating!" snarled Karen irritated. "Your explanation made perfect sense, so why can't I get it to work!?"
We were sitting on the floor in her room, as I tried to teach her how to detect energy lines as the first part of learning how to heal growing pains. As I had suspected, she did indeed know where the energy lines were located from her experience with Traditional Chinese Medicine, but she was having problems detecting or seeing them.
That in turn meant that she couldn't determine which energy line was the problem or locate the nerve centres to press on to guide the lines back into their proper place.
For me it was slightly puzzling. Karen had the knowledge and she had training in meditation that was required, but for some reason she couldn't make it all come together.
"You're trying too hard and thinking too much." I said with a smile to calm her down. "Take a deep breath, close your eyes and relax for a moment."
Straitening her back, she did as I told her, which made my smile a bit wider. Sitting cross-legged in a skirt and a tight-fitting top, while taking deep breaths that made her breasts stand out even more, she was extremely desirable to say the least.
"Now tell me what you can feel."
We sat in silence for a while, but then her full lips suddenly parted in a beautiful smile.
"You're looking at me." She stated without opening her eyes.
"Are you guessing, or can you feel it?"
"I can feel it."
"Good," I said, "Focus on how you can feel me looking at you."
She sat totally still as she concentrated, but then sighed. "I can't... it's just a feeling."
"Feeling somebody looking at you isn't 'just a feeling', Peach." I explained patiently. "It's an age-old instinct, telling you that another life force is concentrating on you. If you can feel me looking at you, it means that you can feel life force and if you can feel it, you can detect it."
"Oh." She said and went silent.
Guessing she was trying to figure out how she knew that I was looking at her, I leaned back against the bed and examined her with my mind just to make sure she didn't have any mental powers.
She didn't, as her mind was free of any mental patterns resembling a miniature Centrum Potentia, which was a relief after the surprise I had with Alice.
That settled, I concentrated on the Vis. A few heartbeats later, I could see the faintly glittering lines of energy in her body, where it wasn't covered by clothes.
Committing that sight to my memory, I closed my eyes as I recalled a picture of Yang Jia and compared the two women mentally. The lines were almost the same, but there was a subtle difference in the nodes, which was where two or more energy lines crossed. Karen's nodes transferred a lot less energy than Jia's and that was a problem, since it was the nodes that released the energy needed to use Vis, including the ability to see it.
I looked at her closed eyes and saw the same problem with the lines there. The energy level in the nodes was simply not high enough.
It was a common problem among people, who had never used Vis and one that I should had thought of before. Especially since I had had the same problem when I had started to learn Vis.
Satisfied that I had found the source of the problem, I started thinking about how to solve it.
The normal way to make the nodes transfer more energy was the one I had gone through, where years of training slowly opened the nodes, allowing more and more energy to pass through.
We didn't have the years it took to do that, so I needed to use another and faster method and there was only one of those: Forcing the nodes open by overpowering them with Vis.
Equivalent to opening a door by kicking it in instead of picking the lock, this method could only be used on people that had a lot of Natural Vis in them, since it took a lot of Vis to make it happen and required a skilled Vis user to direct the flow. The method was rarely used, since no matter how well it was done, the end result was never as good as years of training.