For the first time in this life it felt like I opened my eyes and I can see. Not just a flash of light or a blur of color. I can actually see. in the distance an expansive star-field filled with stars in green, blue, red, orange, violet, maroon, and more colors than I know know the name of. And not gust starts the sky is filled with a nebulous cloud of purple and green in the background.
Soon it was time to pay my respects and look at the sun that sustained my life as a tree for three hundred of my current years. And so I turned my attention to the closest star for the first time. Well stars it seems I have reincarnated into a binary star system witch would explain the thirty day bright and dark cycle warmth of the light. the larger star is blue and the smaller one is green. Using what little he knew about stars the blue one was bigger and hotter than its green counter part. Looking at the suns he wondered if he could see the corona as if there was a true solar eclipse so he attempted to adjusted the spell in order to filter out the unnecessary bright light in order for that which can not normally be seen to become see able.
Looking at the structure of the spell I maid I found I could not make heads or tails of it. I knew for a fact that the tree perspective could understands all of this. but if I switch to the tree perspective then I would lose the ability to understand and comprehend sight and tell the difference of how the change maid changed the spell. And so I tinkered with every single structure that I felt like I maid in a fever dream I knew I made every bit of the complicated structure of this spell but I could not tell any one how I did it or what ever little peace did.
One peace at a time this one helps recognize color that one shields the every thing from space dust. That one records images that I can see. Here this one deals with the opacity of the shell. Since I am looking at the sun lets block all of the light from every not in the peripheral of the suns to make thing faster. Now the two suns are orbiting each other so I if I want to see a corona I will have to block the light from both suns as if there are two moons in the way in order to simulate a twin full solar eclipse.
In a word the coronas are beautiful the blue one had little flicks if indigo. The green one had little flicks of yellow and sky blue. Soon My eye simply drifted into the star field behind the suns as I watched the corona fleck and highlight the stars and galaxies in the background as I continued to emulate that the stars where eclipsed.
Soon I focused my sight on two different stars one that pulsed with a color of light that I knew was not blue but I could not tell the difference between it and star that had a steady bright blue light. Wondering why I perceived them as different even if they looked the same to me I tried limiting the light I could see into only the blue spectrum. And one of the stars vanished.
The steady blue star was still shining but the one that pulsed was one of the ones that was not shining. Returning the settings I had on the spell I still could not tell how I could tell the difference in the light. I tried thinking like a tree and found the pulsing stare was giving so much more energy.
So I then returned my attention to my spell hoping to find the section that was telling me that the two stars where giving different amounts of energy. After a wile I found a section of the spell that was in charge of analyzing color so out of curiosity I mad that section more complex using knowledge of prisms to separate the light before analyzing it. After I did that all of the colors went funky and unstable so I added a section to the spell that would dedicated to equalizing the light after it was separated before and after the light came out of the prism and reinforcing the light analyzing section of the spell.
After I tweaked that part into the spell. I decided to take another look at the suns and removed the darkening that was mimicking two eclipsing moons. And was greeted by a panorama of bright and shifting color and the funny thing is now the light of the suns did not cloud out each other or the stars behind them and the carona was a splash of color around the suns with my new spectrum grafting the suns looked like a spiraling mix of every color of the rainbow with thousands if little spots that shifted from the standerd mix of low energy light to a spectrum of high energy light that carried a stream of particles that radiated in more mundane low energy light.
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I looking at the suns mesmerized by the motions as the suns orbited each other. I soon felt the pull to the dance in the background. And simply allowed it as I drifted like a leaf in the wind of the dance like I did in ages past. My mind still mostly on the sight of the suns.
When my soul returned to my tree after the dance I returned my full focus back on to my spell. Undoing some of my changes to the spell I allowed all of the light into my lenses. So that I could see all of the light in the sky I returned to the two stars that had my interest earlier. Finding them no longer behind the two suns. Finding them to be blurry like I was looking threw the wrong glasses I tweaked things In the spell until both stars where in focus. One looked like a tiny version of the blue sun in this system but that one is alone, and the second one looks less like a stare and more like shining disk in space around the first true dark spot I have ever seen.
“ho that looks like the accretion disk black hole.” No way this time I changed the spell to only to only allow the visible spectrum of light form the performance of a human eye. The night sky changed half of the light emiting bodies stopped shining and all of the ones that where left looked like I was looking the clearest night sky ever the big sun mostly shined blue and the little sun mostly shined green but both also emitted light in other hues of the rainbow and the spots that shined in higher energy looked like dark spots. The stars are different but I as I looked I found looking into the night sky as soothing in this life as it was in my last one.
The only thing I was missing was the sounds of the insects at night to make this more relaxing, sound. Sound has octaves where some sounds resonate with sound in earlier octaves but come of as different. I halve to test this. But my spell has no way to red or blue shift light. So back to tinkering after a wile I finally made an addition to my spell that seemed to do what I needed basses on time. Turning back to the two stars I used the spell I had to progressively red shift the light from only the blue disk up the rainbow until it hit red and form red into violet. This pattern repeated several times until after six octaves of light the light from the blue star and the blue disk was exactly the same.
Armed with this new information I started to rearranged the insides of my spell to keep track of the different octaves of light for ease of viewing and cataloging. And decided it was time to take a look at the orbitals of the local suns including the one my tree is rooted on and its green moon. Looking down I found a mess. The first thing I could see was a deep green forest directly below my spell held in place by the tether. the Second thing I could see was large pit that glowed red and belched out yellow clouds. To the north of the forest about where I would assume rotational north to be. The yellow clods seemed to rain down and dissipate before hitting anything else leaving a circle of yellow around the pit. On the south side the white sheets of ice seamed to be more.
The next thing too notes was I distinct lack of an ocean the enormous continent had a massive array of rivers that all funneled to the equator in massive river deltas going into a band of lakes with several mile stretches between each one. And a roving storm that traveled with the moon shooting clouds and other weather activity all over the place that seemed to pull a tax of water out of lake as it passed them as it traveled in its band.
In the hope of finding something more normal I looked at the moon and it is green with little flecks reflective something mixed in. what can I zoom in. tacking a closer look at the moon there are three continents I can see each one is covered in buildings with forests on top of them and two large oceans separating the see able land mass. Well so the moon is an idealistic paradise and the planet is a mess fine.
Its magic lets figure out why later. You know what I am done I don't want to even look at the other planets lets figure out how to recast the spell and be done with every thing. And so using the tether I started reeling in the spell as I started to dismiss and recast each part of the spell piece by piece. And by the time that I had pulled the tether in all of the way to the ground I was pulling the spell apart by its constituent parts and putting it back together in its totality.
Returning to the point of view of a tree after so long was different the long time using the perspective of a human made some things as a tree foreign wall once foreign thing are now common and intimate. A tree sees with its leaves but the more use there leaves as mouths to eat. Turning his attention to his leaves and the ground he was happy to learn that he had been directing the warmth of the suns to the flowers bellow his bows. He was already directing the light what was the difference between directing and understanding. And so keeping in mind the structure of the skrying spell the tree shifted its leaves and processed the information that he received as he turned the light into food.
Before long the tree had an image collected and as it processed the image the tree soon learned he was surrounded by sitting elves. Switching to soul sight the tree felt all of them ancient pillars of power and all of them where just sitting there passively just meditating in peace. This made the tree slightly uneasy so he asked.
“MAY I HELP ANY OF YOU.”