Post by diana eoina bainbridge on Mar 18, 2021 0:08:45 GMT -7
we found you, we feel you breathing
are you there? can you hear us calling you?
Summer 2024
Diana took a shuddered breath. She was exhausted—mentally, physically, but she persisted. It was what she did—she pushed through. It had been a few months now, and she’d been under the tutelage of Ambrosia for Occlumency. Since Elaine was aware of her younger sister’s ability, Diana needed to learn how to block Kinsey’s natural ability to detect her intent. Otherwise, this all fell apart. She exhaled, attempting to clear her mind once more. It was difficult to block out the faces of her older brother, her younger sister and the triplets, and especially her twin sister. The training had been brutal, the schedule aggressive, and she wondered if it was recommended to train like this and expect one’s mind to not come out broken. But she had learned something else as well. Ambrosia didn’t flinch at the sight of weakness or bend even when Diana was on her knees begging for a reprieve.
But the lesson had become so simple, and Diana wondered if it was all was actually that simple. Emotions. They were tied to memories, gave them more power in one’s mind than you could control. But remove that, and they were just pieces, just like filling away papers in a cabinet, easy to move around and without any resistance. Diana took another deep breath, stronger this time. Pushing away all the faces and their eyes and expressions and anything that made her feel. So much time, so many months, every day it became easier. She needed to prepare her mind, block out the intrusion and block out everything. Ambrosia would cast that spell, and Diana intended to be ready. What choice did she have? She took a vow, and just as she did with anything in her life, she pushed through.
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