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Sorry for the lateness of the chapter but I am going to write several more chapters then I had originally planned to make up for it :)
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Actually I lied, the reason I am writing more then I planed is because I got into a groove and couldn’t stop writing. But this doesn’t change the fact that I plan to do various other things to make up for it! ;)
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In case anyone’s wants an excuse as why I broke so many promises, by posting so late...
(sorry especially to people who PM’ed me, you know who you are)
The main and official reason is I have been very busy with homework lately
(the last time I was able to post so many chapters at once as I was at home during a break from school)
but the unofficial and secondary reason, that I will sadly but openly admit, is that lately I have come down with a very contagious and dangerous disease that makes everyone who contracts it unproductive…and it is called:
Spoiler :
LAZYNESS!
Does anyone know a cure for such an ailment? If you do please tell me, at the very least I would like something that treats the symptoms if not the malady itself.
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Intimacy
(The Dragon Sis in the Egg)
Rank up! You are now a Dark Blue Dragon!
+15 to all stats
Your current color means that your affinity to water/Ice magic has increased
Do you want to bring up the Hatching Option?
After choosing no when the [Yes] [No] options appear, I nod to myself in my head, satisfied at my progress, it has only been less than a year since my last rank up, and I have already increased my rank several times, the last one had been from blue-green to sky blue. Wanting to take a break from the various training I had been doing I send out a psychic message to my brother which he quickly accepts and I begin to chat with him.
As the years pass my brother soon came to understand language very well, which handily meant I no longer had to explain very much. Better yet, there is now almost no hesitancy, so our conversations became very fluid and easy. Just before we reached this state, I obviously started to teach him things other than communication.
I was mostly giving basic, but important information. I told him some of the information I was able to scrounge up in my past life, particularly almost all the knowledge I had learned from the demon lord about kingdoms and races during our week together. I also gave some of what I was learning now through my dream walking, and occasional psychic spying.
The first thing I taught was everything I learned about our own gem dragon race, as well as all I had learned about other kinds of dragons, and all about dragons in general. (I wish someone had brought me aside and explained things about humans back when I was young I could just imagine all the troubles I would have passed on) Now that we have words I am able to easily build up his vocabulary by sending meanings and matching it to new ones.
He always listened very carefully, and always learned as much as he was able to, hindered as he was from living inside an egg. Although I could share my memories and force things on him directly, I had decided early on, that other than for the pictures and knowledge necessary to explain words and what I was teaching, that I would avoid giving him anything too “large” as it were.
This was because, I strongly felt that it would be better for him to experience most things for himself once he hatched, rather than only be given it, so I didn’t really bombard him with information. Now and then we would take a break from this sort of knowledge I attempted to teach him more practical things. Mainly magic.
We didn’t get very far, or at least from my perspective. To me my brother seems slow at learning, which led me to doubt his intelligence at first but I soon decided to believe otherwise despite what my mind was continually telling me. After all I had a very small sample of testing subjects on which to base my opinion.
But I was fairly certain that besides his one little talent, he didn’t have any powers of the mind and was absolutely certain that he was not a natural psychic and thus would probably loose most of his mental ability when he hatches.
He also struggled to do any sort of spell I tried to teach him, besides the few he had learned instinctively already. When I checked his stats through one of my analyze skills I realized the problem wasn’t because of lack of intelligence but wisdom.
He had very low wisdom and was spending most of his mana just keeping his mana stone active. (for me, it required so little mana that it was unnoticeable) and as almost all magic and psychic skills required mana to work, and as mana required both intelligence and wisdom to exist, (Wisdom being what brings you the energy that becomes mana and Intelligence indicating how much you can hold) he was out of luck in learning it for now.
This was also because I didn’t want to alter him unnaturally, I shuddered to think what would happen if I forced strength and power upon him…in the infant state he was in now…it could be fatal…or it could create a creature with tons of destruction power and little to no control or care of how he used it. Maybe when he is older I decided.
As we continued our current conversation, my brother to my surprise brought up the idea of him attempting to contact the other eggs. This time with my support as well as better equipped with the tools of knowledge language and most importantly our experience in learning and teaching others at our disposal.
Actually the way he explained it was he would do it by himself and he was just informing me of his intentions. But as I have said my brother has very little true psychic ability and even just talking to I who was in the same room as him was stretching things, and tended to tire him out after a while, if I didn’t always meet him more than halfway. So I immediately offered my support, which he had been strangely reluctant to ask for.
Thinking that part of the reason for his reluctance was the fact that I had expressed my desire to avoid contact with others to him before, I informed him that I would prefer he did all the “talking” and work, while I mainly acted as just a bridge between him and the one he wanted to contact. He seemed relieved when I said this and gave no more objections, then he explained who the first one who he wanted to contact was.
This dragonling or more accurately eggling was one of the ones that had tried to talk back and had been almost friendly when he had managed to reach her. Her yes, this eggling was currently the only other female in this generation besides me who was still in an egg.
I had a very strong desire to tease my brother about this, but I just knew that in his current extreme innocence that he wouldn’t understand and that deflated most of the desire because the whole point of teasing is to get a reaction of some sort. I however took my own desires in to account by creating a large mental note to tease him at a later date when he gained the ability to become embarrassed.
With my mental bridging he easily managed to reach her mind, which we saw on the mental plane as a small but beautiful spark of light. With my advice, he started with happy and soothing emotions…then he moved on to trying to connect those emotions to a dragon language word used for greeting others.
After wards he basically did to her what I had done to him, only much more clearly and practiced then how I had been. Although I can be good at leading and controlling others, as I had somewhat expressed to him before I don’t really like to communicate or socialize that much, so I can sometimes have difficulty in expressing myself or communicating.
Also he and she were peers, both were innocent infants with no knowledge of a past life prematurely aging and distancing them from others. They would probably be able to empathize with each other easily without the use of a skill. To my amusement after reflecting on this I received a notification that my empathy had skill had raised a bit.
After reflecting on the differences between myself and my sibling and his potential new friend, I realized that probably the main reason for my current dislike of social interactions had to do with the fact that unlike in my past life. I no longer ‘had’ to do it.
Before my reincarnation I usually lived surrounded by people, and most of them were forced on me, at the very least by circumstance. Usually there was always at least one other person in the place I was in, but I was usually surrounded by crowds, in the beginning it was my large boisterous family then in my later days there was often crowds of strangers and acquaintances because of hero and our job.
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Going from almost always being surrounded to being in most ways completely alone, except for maybe my brother was a refreshing experience. Especially because as more and more I realize the great amount of freedom I have right now and the even greater amounts I will potentially have when I hatch. I have been almost giddy from all the freedom and privacy that I have had, to the point that I guess that unconsciously I had the idea that it was time for me to take a well-deserved break from others.
Besides avoiding the presence of others physically (or as the current situation calls for: mentally), Right now I also didn’t really want close or even become friends with others either. This was partly because I had never really managed to do so truly in the past, and thus I felt really unconfident on being able to do it now, at least easily. In fact, the demon lord had been the only person I had ever met that I had felt instinctively that we could possibly become friends and more importantly that I felt that I wanted to become friends with them. (It was just my luck I didn’t meet him until I was on death row)
But the main reason I disliked the idea of closeness, was that I feared it. I my past life I had been betrayed many times, by both acquaintances and strangers. Even several times by people who were slightly more than acquaintances, ones of whom I had been hoping that our relationship would evolve into friendship. Of course there was also the fact that I had also been betrayed by the pope many times and in various ways (the last one leading to my death) and the hero had also (usually through stupidity and selfishness) used in me in ways that smelt of betrayal. But what they and the others all had in common was I wasn’t close to them, and our relationships were very shallow.
My relationship with my old family wasn’t that close, but it, next to my brief friendship with the demon lord, had been the closest relationship I have ever experienced. To better explain the level I had with them, would be to say that I felt far more love and affection for them, then they did me.
If a prime opportunity presented itself to them that would give them more wealth then I had been providing I could not say with any certainty that one of them wouldn’t leap at the chance. But I am fairly certain that one of the main reasons they were crying about my death, was that I would no longer be there to take care of them and make sure that they were safe, well protected and fed.
Right now although I was hoping that I and my new brother could eventually become close, he was just one single person and my main reasons for allowing this possibility were because the risk of betrayal from my brother were very low.
First of all I was somewhat immorally taking advantage of his very young and innocent state, with the knowledge that the younger innocent and naïve something is, the more likely it will imprint on the something or someone that makes it happy or gives it affection and become fiercely and unbreakably loyal to it. (This fact is even more effective if the younger creature in question comes from an egg).
Secondly I was given even more and even more powerful protection, from my brother betraying me from the kingdom I currently existed in. Unlike in my old human kingdom of Alfdorn which practically encouraged betrayal (as the current rulers the pope and the Queen thrived on it). The kingdom I was in now was a small kingdom in a large dragon country.
(a country is when a large amount of kingdoms which are ruled by the same race and have the same or a similar culture are near each other or when a single large kingdom is large enough or isolated enough from being near other like kingdoms or kingdoms of any kind)
And most of the rulers of dragon country (which were mostly of course dragons) were fairly big on loyalty and were firmly against betrayal of any kind, especially between those of the same bloodline. Thus the kingdom would pressure those thinking about betrayal and make it hard for them to choose to do it. And If they were driven powerfully enough for whatever reasons (greed, jealousy, hatred etc) to somehow manage to do it, the kingdom would start working against them in various ways.
If they were weak enough, it would send mindless monsters to attack them (similar to my own experience) if they were stronger they would experience various forms of “bad” luck. If they owned land, the plants on their land would die, if there was a volcano that existed near they lived, it would probably erupt and destroy things. And most terrifyingly of all, most ordinary people, especially the weak minded would get an instinctual urge to dislike them on site, or even hate them without any impetus even if they didn’t know the person personally, or heard of their history.
My brother being my sibling and thus of my bloodline would have a harder time than usual betraying me, if for whatever reason he managed to get past his increasingly growing imprinting and started to hate me. The only way he could possibly betray me is if he or someone he befriended managed to become a ruler of a kingdom. And as I have plans to eventually become the ruler of a kingdom myself, (in order to have the most freedom and future strength possible) they or their friend would have to be a ruler more powerful than the ruler I would become (and as I have said I plan to become as powerful as possible) . So as you can see I wasn’t really breaking any of my unofficial promises when I allowed a relationship with my brother to happen.
To make up for his imprinting , as whether I really did it intentionally or not I still feel it was somewhat immorally wrong, (as it was mostly done out of loneliness and because of his default state making it near impossible not to happen, I am leaning towards mostly unintentional at least in the beginning). I plan to give my brother the same amount of loyalty he shows me. Even if one day I succeed in my plans to become a ruler and gain the ability to hurt or betray my brother I made a sworn oath to myself that I would never do so, even if my brother for what ever reason decides to betray me first.
On a softer and more personal note, I plan to be the best sister I can be, and provide him with whatever he will ever need if it is with in my power. This may sound excessive to some especially as currently my potential seems near limitless. But as I have already admitted, I dislike social interactions and currently plan to avoid them, by having my brother to be my main and only form of contact, at least until I hatch from the egg and gain access to other people besides infants in a way that wouldn’t potentially cause a major scene, so I will end up owing him a lot.
More time passes and my brother not only, manages to befriend and teach the female rudimentary language, but also manages to do the same for most of the other eggs. Outside the eggs, most of the adults are mystified as none of the eggs are choosing to hatch early as expected, because my brother and through him myself, are fulfilling the need for companionship and stimuli, that the lack of would make them overcome their fear of the unknown and hatch.
Although most are curious, none of them are curious enough to bother a magician with psychic ability to attempt to communicate with the eggs, and all of these magicians are too focused on protecting the kingdom and their training and research to bother to be curious themselves.
And thus more time passes without any incidents, at least to the knowledge of those living outside of eggs.
Rank up! You are now a violet colored dragon!
+20 to all stats
Your color current color means that your affinity to Magic/Arcane has increased
Do you want to bring up the Hatching Option?
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On second thought , you guys might dislike the fact that there are more chapters now, because that means there will be more chapters unitil the action/time when she finally hatches
My apologies to those who feel this way.
Hmmm...oh well, it's too late to bother with trying to change things now...
(the very thought of it makes my disease act up)
PS:
Once again, if you like Reincarnation Flower (and if you haven't already) please try my one shot: WMAW (see signature)