Memory 6
Sifu Wu held a jar filled with black ink. "You must mix the ink with a drop of your blood," the Chinese looking figment of her fantasy put a knife in her hand to let her cut herself. But Akasha had different plan. This world is powered by her imagination so it is her who makes the rules, she thought, any bodily liquid will work.
"Blood my leg," she muttered as she spat into the jar when Wu wasn't looking. The ink reacted with the saliva and turned dark red. Then her teacher told her to put a paintbrush into the magical liquid and start painting something.
Akasha began with doodles of simple bird and butterfly silhouettes. The enchanted blood ink drawings came to life for a while before they dispersed in the air.
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Blood ink became Akasha's first weapon of choice and she carried a flask and a paintbrush anywhere. She was cross dominant, relying on her left hand to hold both pen while writing or paintbrush when summoning some magical doodle. She used it often for both fighting or simply to amuse herself. Wu wasn't happy she was using her saliva instead of blood but his protests meant nothing as Akasha saw that the blood ink works exactly as well with or without blood.
One day her imaginary teacher appeared in front of her while she was playing with animated ink doodles again. He was silently observing her and her creations before he spoke up: "I see you've mastered the blood ink, angmo, but what you don't know is that this technique has a sister.
One day you will have to leave the dreams of your childhood behind however painful it may sound to you now. This trick will help you, should you ever feel like getting stuck in a nightmare. Listen well, in order to activate the Indigone acid you will have to…"
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Some days – or better nights – later she asked about the spell her other teachers: "Is it really possible to get stuck in a dream? Not being able to wake up?" Then she told them about the technique Wu told her about. The stuff she would conjure sounded powerful but icky and nasty at the same time. So Akasha didn't exactly know what to think about it.
The two women shrugged. They were full of mistrust about this technique but they didn't know how it works so they had to be careful about the matter. Jane took her word: "There indeed is some possibility you might not be able to leave a dream but that spell Wu taught you sounds dangerous. Should you ever need to break out of a dream, please, try to find another solution first." "Remember, some techniques are more dangerous than others and the consequences may be dire," added Charlotte.
Having heard those warnings Akasha decided to never use this technique. Only as the last resort if she ever were so desperate. However once a lethal weapon exists, it's only a matter of time it will be used eventually.