3 days ago, Deidre transported us outside where I can use my pattern
and I walked around for a bit, looking for changes through the pattern.
After this didn’t work I tried to remember what Cordelia and
Prince Corwin’s ghost had mentioned about shadow walking. The
next thing I tried was to try to make the change myself by imaging that
there was, say, a plant behind me. I turned around and was surprised
when I’d seen that I had done it! However it wasn’t
the only change, the sky was pink, the ground was grassy and the
gravity was very strong. I was feeling pretty pleased with myself until
I realised I was alone. Couldn’t Sorcha and Damon see me
walking and follow me? I decided to go back and fetch them by bringing
the tower to mind. The next shadow I was in was desserty and windy, the
gravity was even heavier and there appeared to be a bad storm coming.
There was a tower in the distance but it was not the tower I was
looking for. I was a little disheartened and felt a headache coming on
but the wind was picking up and there looked to be a pretty nasty
sandstorm coming, I had to get out of here.
I tried to think back to how Cordelia shadow walked, I remembered the
truck engine almost cutting off when she tried a change that was too
large and how I had hardly noticed the changes. Looking through the
pattern, I imaged the sand getting greyer then the sky. It was tricky
but I managed to get to a place that was safe enough to rest until my
banging headache had gone. I then repeated the process several times
until those extra moons in the sky went away and the tower gained the
gem atop of it and was just the right colour until I could not find any
more parameters to change. I dropped the pattern and found myself,
finally, back at the tower. Or a few miles away from it, but I
wasn’t about to use shadow walking to make it closer.
.Unsurprisingly, Damon and Sorcha had gone, presumably inside the tower. I noticed there were no doors or windows, in fact the only thing the tower did have was a staircase. I decided to climb them, with a lack of anything else to do and in the hopes that Deidre will be able to find me on the roof as she did when I tried to teleport inside the tower, however I could not be sure that she would notice me.
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