Flame
2129 Words
Since Heather would be kept busy with the meetings, later on, I guessed I would have more time to spend and to inquire about my special abilities, since the best place to be inquiring about my new found special abilities would be at the Priest's Guild.
As lunchtime was already over, I walked up and rapped gently on the door of the Priests Guild and was ushered in by one of the Priests as I was greeted warmly by every one of them.
They were delighted to see me visiting them at their own Priests Guild since I had not nene there much since it was inaugurated on the day it was open for public. It is just a figurative way of speech since the community would not be there in the first place as there would be no business for them to be there at all. Hahaha.
"How have you been doing lately, Your Majesty? It looks like you had been running around the town square for quite a bit and even now you're wearing something new underneath that soldier's uniform, are we right?" one of the Priestess asked and I laughed at myself since I've been discovered so easily by them.
"Well, there had been some progress and I need to inquire about some special abilities that I have right now since it would also be aiding you on the future."
"It seems like it, Your Majesty. From your aura alone, it's bright and sparkly and I'm sure anyone like me could see you far in the distance. The aura is from your face and not from the armour that you're wearing."
I sighed a huge sense of relief since everything would be in vain if I were to be illuminated like the full moon on a starless night if my armour gave out a shimmering aura from a great distance.
I would be even a moving target for some...!
"So what's on your mind, Your Majesty? You need to practise more on your healing and rejuvenating blue orbs so that you would have a breakthrough as you progress."
"If 3 orbs are your basic minimum every time you conjure up, the more you practise the more orbs you would be able to conjure up in the future."
Priestess Penelope advised me and I am considering to make those Psi orbs as many times as I could. But where would I inject them? When I was considering I suddenly thought of injecting to all the orchard trees beyond the domain...!
I wonder what will become of them if I were to inject every tree there...!
I smiled and I thanked Priestess Penelope for giving me such a splendid idea. "Heh... I think I know what to do but I would be doing them in the mornings then. At least where I am in the mornings, the Psi orbs would be put to good use."
I replied and I knew the trees would benefit from it. Maybe I drop them directly into the ground and let the trees absorb them or maybe I should do what the other Audemars had done to his withered plants at the side of the castle before.
But since there's no water for me to drop those Psi orbs, I think I would try to drop them directly into the ground.
Besides, what could happen since the trees had already defoliated and would sprout new shoots and tenderlings during the first week of Spring next year.
That got one of my questions answered. The next would be my fireball. "Farah, could you tell me how do you conjure up your flames or heat and do you need to think about it to make it appear and work for you in a certain way?"
Priestess Farah looked at me and answered since this concerns her special abilities and her secret as well. Since she only shared it with the other Priests and Priestess, she had never shared it among others on how she got her powers from.
"It's like this, Your Majesty. The other time, when I accidentally took a man's life since he had robbed my father instead of helping him, all I could think was the rage building up within me."
"Furthermore, the mine that my father was waiting for the workers to load was on fire, I mean, the Miner's entrance was billowing with flames as if a dragon had been awakened and had snorted its fire on everyone inside it."
"When I grabbed the man's ankle, all I could think was 'BURN... BURN... BURN' and burn it did until the man literally melted to the ground like molten wax from a candle."
I wanted to laugh out when Priestess Farah mentioned about the men who malted to the ground like molten wax.
I was imagining a pair of eyes and a mouth in the middle of the puddle and blabbering something like, "Hey, you there...! A little help here...! Get a shovel and a pan and scoop me away and mould me into something else except for a human being...!"
In fact that molten wax resembled what Andy Cole was scooping before in the fields to make — COWPAT...!
Hahaha! Hahaha..! Hahaha...!
I was slapping my hands at my thighs and laughed out loud. It is simply irresistible when someone could pull a joke with a straight face...!
When the rest of them knew about the thoughts and joke, they all guffawed and after the laughter died down tears had been wiped off their faces, I asked Priestess Farah relating to her special abilities.
"Right now, do you have something like a flame in your mind whenever you want to build food warmer stones or a drying kiln? You thought of the flame and it would engulf the things that you want it to be imbued?"
"Not really, Your Majesty. It's hard to explain but the fire is always raging inside my blood and veins and all I could do was to think of how hot it would be and it would follow my instructions."
I was wondering if her special abilities were like mine as I explained, "The flame that I was told that I had would be imbued in the back of my mind. It would form from the flame of a candle.
I don't think it would be as useful and beneficial as yours but the only thing I was told that it could be conjured up as a huge fireball. And the other thing is that I could shoot fireballs from my fingertips like this. "
I showed how I would be shooting those fireballs from my fingertips when everyone ducked and some ever cowered under tables as I showed them how it would look like.
When I saw them acting that way, I forgot that these Priests and Priestess were all human beings after all and they would still have the feelings of fear in them.
I laughed at them and told them that I haven't try to bring the candle's flame into the back of mind and everyone relaxed after that.
"Your Majesty, so the next time you pointed at something, does that mean fireballs would be shooting out from your fingertips then? Woah... Your fingertips are so overpowered, Your Majesty...!"
Priestess Imelda was poking fun at me and she had a finger near her nostril and she mentioned it to her sworn sister and they both laughed together.
I guessed that every time I tried to dig my nostril, a fireball would shoot up my nose and open up a new hole. Hahaha...!
I laughed with them and told them that I need Priestess Farah's assistance since she would not be harmed by fire and even her clothes that she wears would not be singed by open flames at all.
"Your Majesty, you really going to create the fireball? Woah...! We got another Fire Manipulator over here... Better call the water brigade to standby...! Woot woot...!"
Priestess Imelda cupped her hands to her mouth and hollered out and made the woot woot sound as if its some kind of siren. Hahaha.
"Sure, Your Majesty, I'm immune to my fire and all types of heat so we could proceed and experiment. Bring the flame of a candle into the back of your mind, you say? Why not like this?" Priestess Garai snapped her fingers and a small flame began to dance around her fingertips but I shook my head.
"I need something physical. Once the candlelight had been burned right into my mind, I need you to pinch and extinguish it. From the trail of smoke, I will try to light it up again using the flame that's inside the back of my mind."
I explained to her and she snapped her fingers back once more and the flame dancing on her fingertips disappeared and she took a candle out from her little satchel bag and place it in front of me, in between her.
I sat cross-legged on the floor as I faced the candle which had been lighted by Priestess Farah and surrounded by the rest of her peers. I explained that when I nod my head slightly means Priestess Farah would be extinguishing the candle's flame and she acknowledged.
"This experiment would need to be repeated umpteenth time since it is my first time. My other self had done it after an hour so I'm sure you would be able to be patient with me, yes?"
I requested to the rest of them and they all nodded their heads since they would be watching a layman perform special abilities, just like one of them. It was like everyone's first time since no one knows when they would be blessed with these special abilities in their whole life.
I closed my eyes and tried to burn the candle flame that's visible in my closed eyes and then I tried to bury it deep at the back of my mind. After many times and even everyone was getting bored watching Priestess Farah who keeps lighting up the candle in front of her until it was nearly left a quarter when u slowly held out my palm forwards.
I could feel the heat of the tiny flame inside my head and I could feel it coordinating with my mind and with my hands as if it is saying, "Go on, Audemars... LIGHT MY FIRE...!!!" and with a heavy grunt, I pushed my palm forward and I could feel the flame lingering at my palm before it hits the wick, lighting the candle up with a significant flare...!
There were oohs and ahhs when I had finally accomplished it for the first time and I was thoroughly excited...!
But it is far from over since I would still be practising it until I don't have to wait so long to conjure up the flame into a fireball.
"That's no fireball, Your Majesty. Its just a teeny weeny flame that came flying out from the palm of your hand. If that's a fireball, I think the enemy would squirt some water from the gaps of their teeth to extinguish it. Hahaha...!"
Priestess Penelope cracked a joke and everyone laughed since the one who had a gap at the two front teeth was no other than Priest Walter and he is a Water Manipulator. It fits his special abilities with his squirt of water between the gaps of the two front teeth.
Hahaha! Hahaha..! Hahaha...!
"Alright, let's try it again, shall we? Or we go for a short break first and then continue?" I offered to the peers and everyone was delighted that I was going to treat them. It had been some time since I had given them a treat and it's high time for me to do so.
"Alright then, let's head to the Greasy Spoon and get ourselves something to bite, shall we? Her Majesty is busy conducting some meetings and this time I leave the organisation of certain matters to her."
We walked out into the sunshine and head towards the Greasy Spoon and as I had informed Heather earlier, I could be found together with the Priest and Priestess.
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