Quest connection ~ Asking a favor

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"Oh no..." She started unbinding him. "Thats not it i was distracted... Sereph... she doesnt need to hear this... its a very large warning to you. You have her heart in your chest right next to yours ike. Theres a reason i called her Pinocchio. I meant what i said when i said you controlled her consciousness... but thats not all... because your directly linked to her in such a way now... that her consciousness is not all you can manipulate... you must be careful the link is delicate... if you accidentally slip you could take her will away. Her strings can be yanked." Tris warned. "You need to control your own emotions because those alone can shift her intentions if they are strong enough. Your temper most certainly can. Watch out. Okay? Be careful with her. Don't bend her too much or she will break." Tris was serious. More serious than he'd ever seen her.

[Ike]

"Well I'm in a shitty position." He sighed as Tris unbound him. He rubbed his wrists. "Well luckily I'm the most emotionally stable person there is." He said sarcastically. He knew his temper was bad and the hatred he felt in combat would be able to break Sereph. This was worse than anything he had ever heard. "Is .... is there anyway to stop myself from breaking Sereph?" He asked when he collected his thoughts. He needed to stay strong for Sereph but even he had no control over all his emotions, although he tried very hard.

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"Really, the best person to ask would be sereph... she was the one who maintained your link before you did. May i say with what looked like minimal effort. She knows more than i do. I just dont know how she would take knowing your will could overwrite her own if you wanted it to." Ike knew exactly how his sereph would take it. Like every other limitation she would take it in stride and work with or around it. His sereph wouldnt fall to pieces or be angry with something she could help him to control. Would this sereph be the same? She couldnt feel outwardly so that was a start. It couldn't be too bad. If he wanted her help he had to be willing to explain.

[Ike]

"Fine, her emotions are gone anyway so I doubt she'll murder me when I tell here." He rolled his eyes, unlike Tris his poker face was good. He worried to death about how Sereph would take it now she had changed. He got up from his chair and walked over to the door. "Can I still train like usual? Or would that too take away her energy?" He asked, he needed some exercise to think things through but he couldn't be too careful in this situation.

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"No, your regular activities should not even touch her." tris said as he left. Sereph was on her way back right now. He would cross her path. He could feel her approaching. Time to seek some assistance.

[Ike]

Ike noticed Sereph was coming his way. He didn't back down though, he just kept walking to where he was originally going. When he meets her, he just smiles and asks her if she can come speak to him in private.

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"Certainly" She Followed him. "What is this about?" Her old self was both a comfort and an oddity all at the same time. The changes in her personality gone they must have been a result of the spell on her. She walked beside him with all the usual grace.

[Ike]

He took Sereph for a walk around the courtyard. "So I don't really know how to explain this. So I'm just going to say it. Basically your heart is too close to my heart. This normally wouldn't be a problem, but if my emotions get out of control they could overwrite yours." He paused for a second and looked at Sereph before continueing. "I wanted to ask you for help. Tris told me you always could control my energy, in which case you had to stay calm and not let your emotions go berserk. So I need you to teach me that so I don't mess up." He smiled as he said it trying to comfort her a little bit, trying to let her know he would try his best.

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Her face was calculating. "I suppose. For the sake of opinion though i suppose it would really depend on what it is you are making me do..." Her eyes narrowed and he suddenly felt her heart do a flip in his chest. "I can teach you. Though i shouldn't have to mention that most things i think that you would have me do, would be things i already wouldnt mind doing in the first place and that you need only ask it of me. After all, i would both kill and die for you. That is not a question it is a certainty." Well one thing he could say for sure was this sereph was much more to the point and a lot more forward about things. It made it less fun because the shyness was cute, but easier for the practical purpose. it was almost too easy.

[Ike]

"Come on, you know I would never want to make you do anything out of my will." He stopped in his tracks and took her hand. "Tell me how to control it." He lead her hand to the mark on his chest. "I'm not talking about normal situations hear. The rage, that montrous hatred I feel in battle. That's what I'm talking about it could shatter your emotions." He tried to talk to the normal Sereph by putting her hand on the mark, he hoped it would work.

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Her eyes Glinted with the echo of what little emotion she could get being in such close proximity to her heart. She sighed. "It takes concentration, patience, and self-control. It took me my whole childhood alone locked in the dark to perfect it. I can help you but it will ultimately depend on the strength of your own will, what you forge your will out of. Psychic energy is an extension of your mind you can use it to protect something or to make it attack something. You are wanting to protect your will from taking over mine. That means recognizing what your will looks like and how it differs from mine. The flow of energy is different. You have to draw on the power. Close your eyes and concentrate on our hearts and everything around you. Down to the leaves rustling. The energy is naturally there, you need to see it before you can manipulate it." She said. She brought him to a shady spot and sat down with him in front of him never letting go of his hand. It made the link stronger.

[Ike]

Ike sat there, taking in everything around him. He took deep breaths while concentrating on his thoughts, on his mind. He tried to concentrate on the hatred he felt in the battles he had fought. Eventually it came to him, in about an hour or so. He saw it in front of him, the big cloud of black smoke, whispering to him. Through the link a small amount of this feeling passed over to Sereph. Ike heard the whispers in his head, 'Kill them.' 'Kill them all!' Ike tried to confine it but the energy started to flow outwards, it was starting to surround him. His eyes shot open and he shook his head, breaking his thoughts of it. He had chickened out not wanting that cloud to reach Sereph.

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"No don't." She Gripped his hand harder. "Her energy Wrapped around the cloud of fury. "I told you it depends on how you forge your will. Watch what mine can do." Blue energy wound around the black fury. "You see it isnt about protection at all. It's about teamwork. If you dont want it and i dont want it it wont happen. watch." The blue energy turned the black fury red. He felt its intensity subdue itself. The blue energy turned purple. "The red is what your energy is at its natural state. Like mine is blue. Normally they flow like a two way road in and out of our hearts and minds, but to keep it all in check and in balence of both our powers we wind them together. like copper plus bronze equals brass. two are stronger together." My will is just as strong as yours. It would be a power struggle between our hearts." She explained. "Get it?"

[Ike]

"I get it." He said as he watched it all happen. "But what if I can't keep it back or it takes over. We both know it, you saw it happen before." He sighed for now atleast he was at ease but so many questions were still haunting his thoughts. He came here for just a spell or something that could help him fight against Max, instead this happened. Well he might be better off knowing it but still he couldn't see it as anything else but a burden, not anything at all like a power.

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She pulled on the energy he gave her, shaped itm and the it turned bright and shiney like gold. "feel it." she gave him a power he recognized. the power he gained when she assisted him. "focus on that power and on me." her hand slid from his and she told him to open his eyes. upon doing so he saw his hand palm open as if her hand was still there and then sereph beyond it floating two feet off the ground. "i dont have that kind of strength anymore... not without my heart. it's you."