I didn’t practice magic today, I was content to just lay in the light of two suns. Yes, today had two dawns, one shortly after another, and a little bit ago l watched two sunsets. The light was energizing to me in a way that it wasn’t for everyone else, plants draw energy from the sun to turn into mana, I get a portion of that mana, so when there are two suns in the sky that means twice the light and twice the energy that’s being turned into mana, and twice the mana that I get. Not only that, but the light of the suns provides me with a different kind of energy. It’s like if before only plants were able to pick up on it, but now I was too, at least temporarily.

Instead of practicing magic with this extra mana I decided to meditate in the light of the suns. During spring or summer I would focus outwards, on growing my grove, but fall is a time for reflections, a time for rest, so I turned my focus inwards. Upon doing so I felt another kind of energy, one that was not mana, but something simpler, something fleeting. My first thought was ‘this must be the energy plants use to make mana’ my second was to try to figure out what to do with it while I had it, it obviously won’t last long on its own.

I tried to make this energy stay in my body as long as possible, to allow it to pool up. I quickly found that circulating it throughout my body was the best method I could think of. From there I had no idea how to use it, so I didn’t, I just let it circulate in my body, letting it affect me how it would for as long as I could let it.

I felt it change me in subtle ways, the only thing that was drastic was the change in my ability to hold mana, it increased by half, but other things changed too. The paths that mana, or rather energy, could use to travel through my body became a bit more refined, a bit more numerous, my body grew more solid, not in the literal sense, but magically it became more solid. The, spells, for lack of a better word, that make up my body became more refined. Along with several other, more minor changes.

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Watching these changes made me think about how I could best benefit from this energy while I have it. I guided the energy to make a change to my skin, one that would allow me to emulate a plants ability to absorb this energy. I felt a shift almost immediately, the amount of this energy I was bringing in rapidly increased, to the point that I couldn’t guide it effectively, so I didn’t. by that point I had made enough of a change that the energy was doing the work on its own, I just had to keep ahold of it. It didn’t stop at my skin, it continued its work through the rest of my body, improving it in various small ways, making it so I could use this new energy better, but not well enough to control this much.

It was around this point that I felt another energy flow into my body, mana this time. This came from the world beneath me instead of the two suns above me, and it took everything I had to keep awake enough to keep circulating the sun energy. As the mana from the world entered my body it destroyed the energy from the suns, so I circulated it faster, which slowed down its destruction, allowing me to use it for longer.

Both energies were circulating my body, changing it for the better in thousands of small ways, constantly going after each other and improving on what the other had done. I got the distinct feeling that this mana from the world remained a lot longer than it should have because of this solar energy.

Eventually, the suns set, and the flow of solar energy into me came to an abrupt stop, with what I already had dissipating shortly after that, and the mana from the world shortly after that. The first thing I noticed was the pain, the same type you would expect from an intense workout, the second thing I noticed was my lack of clothing, my armor had fallen off around me, as had my crown. If I had to guess I would say that the changes to my skin ejected the bindings both of those had to me, making them fall. The third thing I noticed was a set of very lecherous eyes from a certain fox girl, they would have made me excited if I wasn’t in so much pain.

This is probably more than I reasonably should have written, I need to go to sleep to recuperate.

Anyway, Good NIght Diary.