(TFT) SOLO III, 031

["David Michael Grouchy II" <david_michael_grouchy_ii@hotmail.com>]

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."

David Michael Grouchy II

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