Yet
Mother's lessons teach her far more. She is told it will take at
least a few years before she can learn to sense the subtle energies
surrounding her, but it takes less than a week. The focused
meditation to draw the power of the world into her body comes easily,
as does channeling it to purify water, reverse rot from food, mend
broken things, find north and other such handy tricks. Aseka finds
herself for some reason gesturing like a magician, the tip of the
middle finger on her right hand pushed over the ring finger and the
index finger pointing delicately at her target, and Mother makes her
practice all her spells in this way until she does it without
thinking, a simple concentration aid.
And she
learns the secret language of the Druids and to listen to the earth
and to understand the plants animals and speak to them in terms they
understand, and even pull them to her through the space underneath
the world. With Beatrix she builds a constant, effortless empathic
link, and she learns to understand her quiet friend's strange octopus
feelings. And she learns to push and pull at wind and rain and make
crops grow, and more than anything she learns to enjoy the work of
learning these things and mastering the limits of her abilities and
pushing against them. And when Mother exhausts herself and can teach
no more, far too early in the day in Aseka's opinion, every day she
goes out to continue figuring it out on her own.
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