A/N: I honestly have no idea where this came from, or the sudden urge to write it, yet here it is. On other news, I've started to work to make the Medieval AU a story in itself. I can't guarantee weekly updates anymore since I want to focus on it.
Summary: Sometimes children are the best teachers.
Rated: K
It was funny how, after years and years of resonating, Maka didn't get how profound it was until she was on her twenties.
The catalyst to her sudden epiphany was a class full of eleven years old students at a normal high school. Why was she there? Simple reason: the new truce with the witches hadn't sat in well with a big part of the population, and since then Shibusen had work along with them and different governments and organizations to erase those prejudices.
It had been quite common before to send some of the most famous weapons and technicians to schools to dissolve most of the myths people spread about Shibusen, but now, it was also used as a campaign to make the youth understand that witches didn't have to mean danger. After all if you educated the youth you educated the future.
She had only done this a couple times before, but she loved it. The kids always had a lot of questions, some really interesting, and it usually was fun, even when they approached delicate subjects.
At first she always came introducing herself, though most knew her at least by name (and they tended to be surprised at how short she was), and told them a bit about shibusen and working for it. Then usually came some funny anecdotes and then the questions, and it was one of those, that opened her eyes.
"What is it like to resonate?" It wasn't unusual for the kids to ask similar questions. 'How do you resonate?' 'How does my soul look?' 'Could you resonate with any of us?' However she had never been asked what was it like, and she took her time to think about it.
"It's hard to describe..." She started as a warning that she might not answer this as they were hopping.
"You know that for resonating there needs to be trust and understanding, right?" All the class nodded, well, most of it, at least.
"That is because when you resonate your soul and your partner's join. Yes, I know you already know this." She lifted a hand, stopping the questions she could already see forming. "But thing for a moment about what it means: you are allowing someone to see your soul, to grasp it as if it was their own. During resonance any of the partners could dig into each other's soul finding anything about yourself, from your favourite book to your deepest fears and more hidden secrets. Obviously something like this would immediately make the other partner to dissolve the link. But what about when you are resonating with someone with more experience than you? There are some meisters that can change their wavelength to fit your own, which means that yes, they could maintain the resonance even if you wouldn't want to."
She took a little break on her speech to let them digest her words before continuing. "And you know what that means? That you are giving someone the power to destroy you. Think about it. Your partner could know anything about you, and they could use it however they pleased. They could use it to manipulate you, they could use it to bring you closer to madness, they could have complete and utter control over you and know things about yourself that not even you know. So let's think again: why is trust so important? Because when you are resonating with someone you are giving them the power to destruct you and you have to trust them not to. You have to trust that they won't dig into your soul unless you let them and you have to trust that they will try to understand aspects of yourself that maybe not even yourself understand. So, what does it feel like? It feels like your soul had suddenly grown, increasing with your partner's experience. It is a deep connection that, once established it's hard to break unless the partners neglect it, because you suddenly get to feel what someone else's feels. You might not know their motifs, you might not know how to help, but they allowed you, not to see it, but to feel it as they do. And there's no deepest connection known to mankind besides Soul Resonance."
The silence in the classroom lasted for a few seconds before Maka added embarrassed. "I'm sorry if I didn't answer your question as you expected, but I hope it made it a bit clearer why it's hard to describe and why it's so special."
