Remembering myself to not fall in some kind of fugue state, I check on my progress. Over the past few days my Domain grew rather substantially. There is a negative as I can not be everywhere at the same time. More room is in my domain, but my attention does not grow with it. In my Realm it is rather unproblematic, as in there, it is rather instinctual creating something perpetual, like a program or maybe more like an assembly line, but out in the World this form of instinct is rather limited.
The next point in line, I have mastered brick making. Rather I have questioned why I have to use heat to smelt materials when they are under my command. In the end I started just mushing them together and will the dust to connect. What I got first was a rather brittle clump of dust, but with practice and pushing my will evenly the first brick was made. The concentration on it was rather complex so I started first with a small assembly, one brick at a time, and will scale it up, if needed in the future. Checking the instinctual made bricks, they show less finesse but are still hard and have the same measurements, like my personally made one. With this I should be able to work on more things in the future.
The next thing on my list, the fireworks stopped in the tunnel. I push still my Mana through it, but only a few flashes are shown here and there. I wonder what happened, but I am not bothered enough to check right now, as I am using the bricks right now to decorate the entrance of the tunnel with an arch, and creating a brick floor. Why I do that? Because I can. I have to live here for a while and will make this place mine. At the same time my bricks have my own intent in them, blocking the annoying intents of the World and thing deep in the ground.
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How long have I been here, and never seen a drop of rain? There should be Rain but the only thing I notice is moisture in the air and ground. Does the miasmic storm even shred rain that travels inside? Might be possible, as the Miasma is rather aggressive against everything it touches.
Then why is there water in the ground? Is there a water table? I mean there should be a water table, as there are trees outside, but it is rather surprising it can get inside through the rocks around. Or better said out. Should this place not be a giant lake or something with moisture in a meteoric crater? Maybe I remember my science class wrong.
Well at least I can think about digging down to find the water table and look if I can do something with it.
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MOUSE! There is a mouse in my Domain! Where did that thing come from? It is the first real living thing I have been able to interact with. Or not interact with as it seems, there is some kind of aura making it impossible to do anything around it for about a few centimeters. It feels like its own domain, and somehow blocks any way for me to touch it with my essence. It definitely felt my presence as it ran right away between the bricks and the rock wall when I tried to grab it.
What a disaster, the first creature in my Domain and I am not able to interact with it. I need to find a way to capture it, but how? Maybe a trap, but for that I would need cheese. Even if I want I can not create cheese out of thin air… at least not yet.
What to do, and what to make. It should be something simple. Something It does not suspect…
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I got into the tunnel for a few meters and made a hole in the wall. Into the wall I put a rock with a crack I made deliberately. Then I put another rock into the tunnel for later. Now I have to wait.
… The mouse got hungry and wants to leave my place back into the woods.
I knew it came from there somehow!
Well, it made the trek back while I watched until it was near the rock with the crack, when I struck my trap. I press my essence against it and make it look I want to grab it again. Shocked it tried to run but I push from both sides of the exits. It panicked and ran around until finding the crack. Running into the crack my essence stops pushing and make it feel safe while levitating the second stone over. Putting it over the crack it can not get out and I can levitate the rocks back!
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The disrupting Domain of that Mouse makes it extremely hard to hover those back, and while transporting, it made itself clear, it was not as harmless as it looked, by shooting lightning at the blocking rock. This Mouse is already transformed by Miasma into a monster, as I should have suspected in the first place. In that miasmic forest, nothing should be living without being changed by Miasma in some way.
Nearly dropping the rocks multiple times I had a hard time transporting the package into my Realm through the Portal. After entering the Mouse got seriously enraged and clawed even harder at the rocks I now let go and let hover inside my realm. After exiting the Rocks the Mouse tried to ran in the air, as there was no gravity and it looked a bit funny how it made multiple rotations.
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I think I broke the mouse. Not that I really wanted that, but it happened by taking the mouse over. The Domain…
New Synonym:
Aura: The area around a living thing, that disrupts my Powers in the Domain.
Back to the explanation: The AURA was strongly weakened in my Realm and I was able to use force to take over the mouse. By taking over the mouse it stopped moving.
It is alive, but does not do anything right now. There is breath, heartbeat and even reactions, but no complex movement. It just hovers there without doing something.
I should feel sorry about it, but strangely I can not feel anything for the mouse inside my Realm. Must be something I lost in the Void, too.
Anyway, I can now see it in its entirety. Brain, bones, heart, even the small core, that identifies it as a genuine monster, everything is in my grasp.
The most amazing shock was, as I felt around its brain. I saw all of its memories, how simple they might be. It was an experience of everything it remembered of its life. The rummaging around the forest, fights against predators and prey for survival.
Most vivid were the most recent memories, and gave me the explanation why it came in here. It was chased by an acid spitting snake, obviously a monster, too. After the snake cornered the mouse against the forbidden Zone, what was the Bubble around the crater, the mouse noticed the strange soothing Mana and a hole it came out from.
Between certain death by the snake and the highly possible death of the mysterious hole it took the survival path and made a leap of faith. At first it was like heaven in there, as the Mana soothed the pains of constant Miasma, but then a presence of extremely wrongness was pushing against it like a terrifying abomination had their eyes on it.
That was a little bit hurtful to me, for thinking about me in that aspect, but it might be even more truthful, than I want to believe about me, myself.
The next part is how it hid between some rectangular Rocks and kept there until it was sure there would be no more attention of it before thinking about fleeing that place, for all it knew it could be a dragon hoard. Trying to stealthily escape the presence was suddenly back and extreme panic came again. Cut of from any reasonable escape route it found a crack and thought itself lucky until the crack was plugged and moved. In its last attempts to escape death, the mouse started to use its innate Magic and hammered all it could muster into the plug with some reaction, before feeling like it was thrown into a place so wrong, it made every instinct panic and went berserk.
Then the last thought was how it lost itself by something entering its body, like a freezing cold when thrown into a freezing river. After that, nothing.
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I am a mouse! Imamouseimamouseimamouse. I can move like a mouse, I can sniff like a mouse and I can even squeak like a mouse. I’m a mouse.
By putting my consciousness in the mouse I AM the mouse! I can feel, hear and even smell! Seeing should also be possible, but I forgot how dark it is in my Realm. There is not even one light source. That must be changed someday.
One problem though is the attention I have to keep on the mouse to use its body. I can hardly concentrate on something else, so I is rather restricting to notice anything in my Domain and even in my Realm. Thankfully the automation I made is still working like clockwork, otherwise it would be unusable to take over a body for the most time.
My powers are still there and can use them instinctual. Experimenting with my ability to use my Essence I move the mouse to the Portal and drop it right through.
I can see! What a nice difference in light perception. Even some colors are present, although I feel something is missing in the spectrum, or I just feel that way, because I have long time not seen anything. Who knows.
Moving is rather hard at first, but with time I got used to how to shoot electricity through the muscles to make them twitch like I want them to.
Sadly this body will starve to death, as I do not have anything inside my Domain to feed it. Before I lose the new material though I will try my best to feel out how to move and how to control my Domain inside a body.