A Problem with Communication

(The continuing adventures of the still unnamed dragonling)  

I gathered all of my mind sense and I used it to form a more direct link between my brother and myself.  I then tried to communicate with him again this time on a much deeper level. I started by sending him a simple word. Then along with that word I would send various pictures emotions and other associations in an effort to try to show him what that word meant.

I have heard that there are several species of dragons that laid knowing all the languages of the world. Unfortunately gem dragons, are not that kind of dragon. They learn like most other races do, slowly through constant immersion when young. From what I have seen from the already hatched dragons tend to learn fairly quickly it has only been a short while since their hatching and most of them are speaking in simple sentences already.

However dragons in an egg are a different story. As I may have said before no one bothers to talk to them, and there is not much mental stimulation inside a dark egg. Eventually for a normal dragon, while inside the egg they might get good enough that they can more clearly hear the ones outside their egg nearby and their mental strength might even become enough that they can communicate psychically with them.

I have even heard stories, similar to the linguist from awareness ones, where much to my amusement, there are even dragons considered “legendary” that can even preform spells and communicate clearly while still inside the egg. From this rumor I’d bet I could cause quite the commotion if I revealed my true self to others.

However getting back on the topic, it is extremely hard to attempt to teach someone how to communicate when there is almost no points of reference to use because he is in an egg. And since because he is truly an unborn infant unlike me he is a blank slate with no past life experiences to rely upon either. So as you could probably guess it was quite slow going.

Days pass then even weeks, but despite the difficulties involved my brother and I did not become bored with this new pastime we invented. I guess this is understandable as it’s not like there was anything else for us to do. In the beginning I would have said that my brother regardless of probably being able to instinctively create a mana stone was no genus, (though he seemed like he would be fairly bright once I could get him to be able to speak) unlike myself he could only sense things within a few feet around his egg, and though he could contact me and with a stretch other eggs.

After I had finally got him to understand the concepts of “yes” and “no” I started to ask him questions, one of which was if he had contacted other eggs besides me. After a conversation that had lasted a few days as I patiently got him to understand each aspect of my question…and then had to translate his still somewhat crude way of communicating into something understandable the answer I got was this:

Yes he had tried, however it had taken a lot of effort and most had tried to shut him out instinctively out of self-preservation. The few others that could be considered “friendly” and more open to trying to talk, had run into the same problems I had now that is they didn’t know how to talk…and exchanging emotions and pictures got boring after a while because being inside an egg there wasn’t much to share. So eventually deciding that communicating with them wasn’t worth the effort he decided to try me instead.

The reason why he hadn’t started with me though I am the logical choice because I am closer? Well it seems on the mental plane of existence I appear somewhat different then I do on the physical. That is unlike with my physical state it seems like I can’t hide my true self, at least from my brother at least. Oh yea, you must be confused, it seems I forgot to mention this but right now on the physical plane I appear just like any regular brown egg similar to my brothers.   It should look like that because when I cast the illusion spell I used his egg as a reference.

I had decided, ever since I had first heard about ranks, that I would try to get a high a rank as possible. However I disliked the idea that everyone would know my rank just by looking at my color. I am used to and prefer to be underestimated as much as possible. In fact, in my past life, after I realized this tendency in my opponents I would go out my way to encourage it.

Thus before I had seriously started training and aiming for not only mana stone creation but a raise in rank. I first researched illusion, and other concealing spells. And after practice… (I would like to be there when one ambitious dragon climbs high enough to see that blue mountain I created) I used all of my magical and mental strength to cast an illusion spell on myself (egg included). It was a spell that can be altered to change the looks as needed. (In some circumstances the only way to not stand it out is to stand out, if you know what I mean).

So while I know that in reality I actually look like a lovely shiny green blue color, to everybody else (and I have tested it and so far it has worked for anybody that has seen me) I am the same nice brown color as my brother. Getting back to what I look like on mental plane…well for a guy without words my brother is somewhat descriptive. The picture he showed me was similar to the way I sometimes saw my status but with far less stars, but larger “space” it was a small galaxy.

Then he did a close in on one star in particular…and he gave me the sense that it was supposed to represent him. It was a small somewhat dim star, but it was bright in comparison to the many dark moons, and unilluminated planets that guessed instinctively were people that did not possess mind magic. It was even bright compared to most of the stars as well except for a few in a distance…they were like glow bugs to his low burning fire. And then he turned his focus in a different direction and I saw a bright glowing sun

After seeing this I did a reassessment of my brother’s intelligence and potential…he was someone who had instinctively been able to create a mana stone and stay inside his egg after all. This was probably at genius level already. I realized that my perspective must be circumspect because my standards were most probably abnormal, thus I had difficulties making fair verdicts even though it was easy to make assumptions and verdicts.

And one other damming fact was this…I saw I saw myself in a completely different way than he did...the mental plane in particular had me worried. While experimenting with seeing the mental plane I had taken the time to see myself. Back then I had when I looked at myself saw a swirling mass of darkness like the dark was liquid and swirling down a drain taking other things with it… I saw myself as darkness and he saw myself as a great light. Such opposite points of view had to mean something…I wondered if my personality had an effect in how I saw myself and if the black mass of darkness I saw The fact that he could see me at all was a bit disconcerting in the first place as I had put up multiple protections besides my illusion that should have prevented it.

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It was possible but unlikely that this was because my protections didn’t see him as a threat…and thus let him in. However I being a paranoid type of person had thought I had taken steps to prevent anyone of any power level including the weaklings from getting through. In conclusion my brother must be a natural at getting past defenses. But this is a good thing that I found this out this early, he is still a child and we are siblings, even if I don’t manage to learn how to block him out (which is an idea that luckily I find somewhat doubtful as anything can be done with enough time and effort) I can probably earn his loyalty to the point that he won’t use his ability against me.

Gazing at the picture of the sun for a while longer, I could see why it would be somewhat intimidating to approach “that”. To me, myself as darkness had seemed a bit terrifying, but this sun was even more intimidating. In fact it is hard for me to believe that is me, though with the dark self I had felt that what I had seen was oddly familiar, this grand “sun” was rather quite the stranger and had made me feel uneasy. I wonder if, after dropping my various defenses psychics other than my brother would see me that way as well.

Shortly after, we had our first conversation. My brother and I had a breakthrough in the communication department. He had realized that rather than me trying to comuincate with a bunch of different types of things at once, I was sending always two types of things a sending a sound (word) and some kind of helping data with it. He figured out the first and most important step that the “sound” represented the information accompanied it.

Things really sped up after this, I would send out a word and an accompaniment to give him some of its meaning and he would memorize it. After we got bored or tired of this he would tentatively at first and then with more excitement try to use the words I had given to attempt to talk back. The first word he “spoke” filled me with warmth because it was the word I had given him to describe myself “sister”.

“Sister…word…word…” Glowing with a bit of familial affection I replied with a guess as to what he wanted with the usual amount of back up to the new word I was using but this time as a test I didn’t use the back up for the words I felt he already knew.

“Word-word…is talk… Sister…Brother word-words. Sister Brother talk now.” He replied a short time afterward.

“Sister talk Brother…” not being able to find the words as I had felt emotion too complicated for a beginner in communication, he instead sent to me a feeling of affection and joy much stronger then my own …feeling a bit surprised but even more happy I replied

“Sister happy also”

“Brother happy? Brother happy!” he did the mental version of laughing and jumping for joy once he understood, then he said something a bit heartbreaking

“Brother one-one now Brother…Sister…Brother no-no one, Brother happy.” I thought hard for a moment then said truthfully

“Sister was lonely too, now with Brother Sister is no longer by herself Sister is happy to be not alone.”

Now that we had the heart to heart my brother was no longer quite as intimidated by me, though this was partly because I had finally figured out some aspects as to why he could see a version of my true self and thus I was able to “clothe” my mental self somewhat and thus bushel the light a bit. Now that we started putting various dragon language words to emotion I felt a bit like I had been a moron.

As I had said there were no obvious frames of reference while in the egg normally, and I had learned that while in an egg a young dragon’s nonphysical capacities temporarily increases…What is the most obvious and powerful of nonphysical feature of anyone that has consciousness? EMOTIONS!

I can’t believe I didn’t think of it before…normal unhatched dragonlings couldn’t use their bodies and could only slightly see what was happening outside the egg…so why had I been focusing on the physical things, and the things that are outside when my brother wouldn’t have a clue what I was talking about?! Why hadn’t I from beginning focused on what was inside the egg and and what was inside our hearts and souls, and was currently being communicated through our minds?! As I was berating myself for my foolishness I received a notification

[skill] Empathy’s level has risen

By attempting to communicate with your brother you have discovered a fundamental truth:

It is not the words themselves that embody communication but emotion. Emotion is the origin of all forms of communication and understanding .

+100  intelligence

+150 wisdom

+1 to all stats

You have unlocked a new stat/affinity:      Emotion/soul

Emotion: a form of energy with great mystery, what little that is known about it is it has something to do with the soul

Soul: No body, exists forever, but the soul does. Souls are indestructible eternal and are one of the greatest mysteries in all of time

You have discovered a new sub-skill of Empathy!

Cheer!

Cheer (active)When you are happy share your happiness with others! When others need help or attention encourage them! When you are happy show it and let out a Cheer!

* can currently focus on one target with higher level you can cheer multiple targets

* with higher level, you can cheer people even if you are not happy

* Can possibly cheer up yourself

* besides temporarily  removing negative sate [depression] cheering can provide additional affects depending on the situation

* Caution: if cheering fails a rebound with negative effects may be applied to you or the target

Level one

Your intimacy with brother has risen, having high intimacy with others can lead to increased improvement in some skills such as [empathy] and [people herding]

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A few years pass

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