The old scarecrow returned with a arm full of hastily drawn diagrams. "Alright Albright, help me clear out some space, then we'll get started on your skill."

We basically just pushed everything off to one side of the room, old scarecrow rolled the diagrams out onto the floor.

"Sit in the middle and close your eyes, I'll set everything up for you this time." I do as he said and close my eyes. "Good now focus on your path, follow it to your center, oh and remember to breath--." His voice fades in to the background as a small island comes into view.

The slime, I've decided on calling it, flowed around this island. A kernel of power decends in view just above the island, what do you want.

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"I want to understand. I want the power to understand the world beyond my own." The kernel accepts my awnser and desends into the island planting it's self.

I watch as life blooms across my path as a small prismatic sapling sprouts at the center of the island. With in it's young branches I understand the power I've been granted.

With new understanding I create my avatar, a small amorphous ball of translucent slime. Feeling like something missing I recall something about animal cells. Right it needs a core.

Looking to the sapling I push it to produce a fruit. A small red core drops from it's branches and rolls into the slimey path.

My avatar sensing the core, jumps at it taking the fruit into it's body.

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When I open my eyes, the old man is gone. I hear cluttering from his kitchen as the smell of hot food wafts through the small apartment.