65 The Connection

It happened while i was working on a tree in the third section, my mind was drifting from thought to thought without settling on anything. I got a little bored of repeatedly thinking about Mother, Chimeg, Tulga and Sarnai in all sorts of lewd scenarios and in all combinations day after day.

I was impatiently waiting for my gift to finish doing its work and imagining at what stage the tree must have been in right now.

Eventhough i am not consciously directing the energy, my gift had a general direction it always followed. The first thing to happen would have been my energy strengthening the red shell around the Ilphyr.

It would continue to do this till the areas punctured by the Zukr thorns gets filled up one by one. With every thorn it dislodges the leaching will decrease leading it to strengthen the other affected areas faster.

Finally, all the Zukr thorns would be dislodged and the slimy vine would writh around the tree trying to get in again. But the red shell would be strenthened continuously to deny it any chances.

The black vine would become increasingly frantic to leach energy and with every moment it is denied that it will become thin and lose itself. In a few moments, it will only be thin black thread that is tied around the tree. Finally even that will be no more and the Zukr vine disappear without a trace.

I was imagining the step the tree would have reached currently and waiting for it to finish when i instinctually started feeling the energy doing what i ascribed even with my eyes closed.

I was fascinated and continued imagining the next steps that would happen only to feel the tree following it. It felt like the Ilphyr wasn't the only one strengthening its shell using my energy, we were strengthening our shell together.

We were finding the spots punctured by the vine and directing energy to patch it with focused intent. We removed all the thorns of the leacher quickly and hardened our shell to keep it out.

When the leacher vehemently tried to leach our energy again, we held fast and didn't give it a chance. When the leacher starved without our energy and evaporated, every fiber of our being relaxed with satisfaction and rejoiced for the growth to come.

When i came to my senses i blinked on the sunlight falling on my face. I wondered why the sun hurt me and felt anxious on the absence of my branches.

When i mind cleared slowly and slowly gathered a sense of my self. I remembered I am a human and not the Ilphyr. My mind awoke with a sudden clarity and remembered what happened.

I had really communed with the tree. For a few moments there myself and the Ilphyr were one being. I wasn't directing the energy pouring inside me into the tree, the energy was pouring directly on the Ilphyr tree. I realised with a sudden clarity that my gift wasn't about the energy it was about the connection.