SOLO III
Demon World
Part 031
Ada glides. Confident in her formal evening
gown. Without moving her feet she slides right up to the subdued
dragon.
It's laying there. Still breathing. Its
throat pointing to the sky and the top of its head laying in the
dirt. Shiny scales around a closed mouth, the line of which looks
like a smile. But that's just a result of the shape of its skull
and jaw. It's eyes are half open.
Half visible and translucent, Ada bends over
it. She rests her spirit hands on the jaw line. She moves
her head closer to its eye. She looks into it.
There is a breif moment of stillness, then she
begins to fade. The vague points of light that make up her
spiritual self dropping out of position and falling into the dragon's
eye. She is gone.
There is a breif moment then she is there
again. Her spiritual self steps back and the dragon opens it's
eyes all the way. It flips over and raises its head. Ada's
voice comes out of its mouth. "I have never been great."
Her toung flickering in and out of her closed mouth with each syllable.
Suddenly the jaw drops open and she growls.
"Ahhhhh, agggggh. It hurts." She says. Her eyes are
darting about.
"That's because of the damage I did to subdue
it." Says Uncle. "I hit it hard enough to kill your normal
body ten times over."
Her breathing is getting more rapid. "It hurts
bad." She says, the snaky length of the dragon unconciously
coiling around itself.
"Think of the stars Ada. Think of Gail.
Go astral." Says Uncle.
The dragon starts to fade, and in it's place Ada's
phisical from appears. Just like she left it on the carpet.
Sitting, cross legged, with her eyes closed. She opens
them. "The pain is gone." Her physical body stands and her
astral dragon is there beside Gail.
"Yes." Says Uncle. "If either of your
forms are slain you can shift them to the spirit and continue on in the
other. You now know what it means to be an un-mortal. One
who can be killed, but can not die."
Ada nods. She frowns and looks around.
She looks over her left shoulder then over her right. She turns
her head forward and closes her eyes. "I can still see.
Even behind me."
"Yes. Even blind. Your astral self can
still see the world." Uncle goes on. "Think about the
clouds, drifting by over head." The three astral forms drift
up. Uncle and Ada's astral dragons, and Gail. "Now look
down." He says.
From way up above they look down on the island,
seing it's exact shape. The cone of the volcano slightly off
center. Then uncle says to the other astral dragon. "Now
open your eyes."
"Oh." She says.
"You can see your immediate surroundings in great
detail, and the whole island at the same time. This is called the
long and the short vision. You will never be lost again."
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