After what seemed like hours, Quin Shun returns from his trance like state. Blinking and nodding his head, he gathers his posture and clears his throat.
"So?" I ask. "What did you find?"
"Interesting...Very, interesting." Quin Shun replies nonchalantly.
"What do you mean by that?" I ask
"Oh, nothing. Your energy field is very faint, but present enough for me to see it. It is also unique, not unlike my own in any way." Quin Shun responds.
"So my energy is doing this to my eyes?" I ask while pointing to my eyes with both hands.
"It would appear so, yes. It would seem you are very...special among other protector." Quin Shun answers.
"How so?"
"In the way that means you will surpass whoever is the current protector here."
"And who is that? Do I know him?" I ask curiously
"In a way," Quin Shun says slowly. "But the important thing right now is for you to meditate. Focus your mind all around you like how you observed the flow of energy from the charm I gave you."
"Like Eragon?" I ask
Pausing me a moment before responding, Quin Shun thinks. "Yeesss, like Eragon." Quin Shun says finally.
"Ok" I reply. I turn back around and sit cross legged on the circular tree trunk. I breathe in a few deep breaths then quickly say
Dispareo
to make the bowl and water disappear. I then promptly look at Quin Shun.
"Uuuhh, how long do I have to do this for?" I ask.
"Until you have achieved the ability to see and hear everything at once, yet nothing at all." Quin Shun answers methodically.
Nodding, I close my eyes and deepen my breathing, calming my mind before I extend it as far as I can to every part of the forest. Quin Shun watches me for a few more seconds before turning and walking out of the clearing.
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Minutes go by as I try to steady my breathing. I faintly hear Quin Shun leave to wherever he might go. He said to do this until I am able to hear everything yet nothing at all, sounds like this is going to take a long time.
I continue to breathe in and out evenly to calm my mind, extending it out in a circle to investigate every part of the forest at once. A sensation like a building heat suddenly interrupts my thoughts and makes me lose focus. I open my eyes reluctantly as I look around for what could have caused it.
My mind flashes back to earlier in the day where I helped Silver relieve some stress. Could the thought of touching a wolf's cock be arousing to me? Well, I have thought of having intimacy many times with dragons, male or female. I guess pleasuring a wolf is no different than that.
Quin Shun is gone, and, now that I think of it, I am kind of pent up from not being able to do anything in the three months I was in the hospital. Maybe now that I have a whole forest for myself I can materialize that dragon I have always wanted to be with.
Thinking Quin Shun will not be back until morning, I could have my fun and then resume my training as if nothing happened. Best thing to do is to start right now so I don't waste any time. With my mind set, I reach down to grasp the materializing charm that Quin Shun gave me, and that I first materialized Silver with.
If I added more of my energy to it, I should be able to materialized a dragon, although I may want to check with Silver with some things first. I still have no idea how much energy I can use until I am exhausted or tired, like at the bank robbery. I sure won't be trying that trick again anytime soon until I am confident in my abilities.
With a big sigh to let the tension out, I briefly close my eyes and join my energy with the charms to materialized Silver again.
"Virtutemanimusaffero, Live Wolf." I speak, saying it just like last time, even going to picture what Silver looked liked back in the cabin.
With my right hand still grasping the charm and being seated on a tree stump, I look down at the ground to where I want Silver to appear. It still takes a few minutes for him to materialize, but my effort is soon rewarded when the silver sparkling mist dissipates from the spell.
Silver is sitting on his muscular hind legs, the same color I remember him as from last time. His muzzle is covered in a thin, firm layer of soft fur. His color is mostly comet silver, turning to chestnut gray and further back near its hind legs. Silvers sheath is still a deep dark volcanic gray. His front legs change from silver to a pure snowy white, the same as his hind legs except from chestnut gray to white. Silver's silver dappled irises with flecks of blue in them stare right at me as I breathe a sigh a relief. Glad to know that he is the same as before.
"You called me master?" Silver says while tilting his head and panting through his snowy white muzzle. His silver/gray ears flicking back and forth rapidly, catching every sound made in the forest.
"You're still Silver, the same wolf I materialized in the cabin, right? You remember me?" I ask hesitantly, unsure if it would be that terrifying experience all over again where he scared me half to death.
"Yes, I am," Silver says with a few grunts and whines. "I am surprised I remember who you are, but what I said must be true if I am where I am right now. Is there anything you desire master? A favor in return for what you helped me with earlier today, maybe?"
"Uh, no, not right now. Actually, I called...materialized you to ask you a few questions, if that is ok?" I respond.
"Sure, I am yours to do whatever you want with, as is whatever or whoever else you materialize." Silver replies in a series of high and low grunts and growls.
"Ok," I say uneasily. Now that that's done with, back to my question. Now, what was it, oh yeah! "Will I have enough energy, or power to fully materialize a dragon? Combined with the charms energy of course." I ask nervously.
"You should be able to materialize a dragon of reasonable size, if you moderate your energy usage with the charms, yes, you definitely should be able to." Silver replies in a string of barks and growls.
"How big will I be able to make the dragon?" I respond.
"aahhh, I would say about a few inches or a foot or two bigger than a Great Dane." Silver replies methodically.
"Oh, well...that's pretty big, I mean, that's a good size for me to start with." I say to myself as I stretch out my legs so my feet touch the ground.
"Yes, will that be all master?" Silver responds.
"Oh, yes, thank you Silver. Dispareo." Silver nods his head in gratitude as he melts into the shadows and back from wherever he came from.
I take a deep breath as I stand up and stretch, getting ready to materialize an actual dragoness. My gray training robes flutter in the light breeze of the forest air as I crack various bones to further release the growing tension within me.
"I shouldn't be nervous," I say to myself out loud. "I have dreamt of this for such a long time. All those other stories about dragons with humans or dragons with beautiful mates have gotten my attention for a long time. Now it is my turn to make that a reality."
Sitting back down on the tree stump, I merge my mind once more with the charm and speak those long awaited words.
"Virtutem animus affero, live, female, Dragoness." I start to feel the effects of the spell almost immediately as the charm struggles to produce enough power to materialize the dragoness I am firmly picturing within my head.
I pour more of my energy into the charm to maintain its strength. The same hazy shape starts to procure as I continue to think solely on the dragoness I want and how I want her to look like.
Minutes go by that seem like hours. Detail after painstaking detail is etched into the slowly materializing frame of the soon to be beautiful dragoness. A more physical form starts to appear as ten minutes go by unheeded. The required usage of power is beginning to get to me as my breath comes in big heaving breaths. With an iron will and steel determination, I continue to focus my energy to the charm so it can finish its job.