Disclaimer: I own Allie, Alec, and their dæmons. I, unfortunately, do NOT
own Lyra, Will, or ANY of Phillip Pullman's characters. If I did, then the
story would have had a much happier ending.
A/N: This is chapter 4: Lessons. I hope you like it, and by the way, the only way I'll know if you liked it or not is if you REVIEW. (hint hint)
~*~ Lessons ~*~
"But why, Pan?" Asked Lyra. "It doesn't make sense." Lyra and Pan were walking down the path to the big oak tree where they were meeting Alec and Kiallie. They were starting lessons today. They were discussing the strange behavior Pan had noticed last week.
"I don't know." Answered Pan. "But Kiallie was definitely very unhappy. She was feeling Alec's pain."
"But what pain? What do you think is wrong?"
"I don't know, it could be anything." He answered. They had almost reached the tree, and Alec was waiting for them. Lyra decided to put it out of her mind for the time being. She had been waiting for what seemed like an eternity to see Will again, and she wasn't about to let one person and his daemon hold her back.
~*~
Alec had been struggling with his thoughts all week. He was anxious for, and dreading this day, at the same time, though he wasn't sure that was even possible. On the one hand, he would get a chance to spend a lot more time with Lyra. Yet, on the other hand, every minute that she spent with him in lessons, Lyra was getting one step closer to Will…and one step further from him. Alec sighed heavily.
"It's going to be alright." Said Kiallie. She hopped from the low- hanging tree branch she was perched on, and onto his shoulder.
"Yeah…sure…" He mumbled. "Hey, there's Lyra!" Alec looked much happier now, but Kiallie knew he was just making things worse for himself.
~*~
"Hi Alec!" Said Lyra enthusiastically, Alec could tell she couldn't wait to get started.
"Hi Lyra." Said Alec. "Well, let me see…I've already told you this is complicated. Um, I guess we'll start off with the trance. See, once you're in it, you sort of imagine where you want to go, you need to picture the place in your mind vividly. The sights, the sounds, you know. Then you imagine yourself into the scene. Then, you kind of are in the scene.
"It sounds a lot easier than it is, I promise you." Alec continued, seeing the look on Lyra's face. "Anyway, we'll get back to that later, lets start with entering the trance, we'll go on from there."
Lyra was sitting on one of the tree's massive roots, focused on Alec with all of her attention. "What do I need to do?" She asked.
"Well, just close your eyes, and relax your mind. Free your mind from any outside thoughts, stay focused. Then, just do what I said before: picture the place you want to be. And be specific, like the sounds you might hear there and stuff. You have to concentrate very hard, but don't try to force it. Slowly slip into the trance. We'll start small first, you know, only traveling a few meters at a time, not into a different world." Lyra nodded.
~*~
They practiced for hours, and Lyra soon made a discovery. She saw that the trance Alec was teaching her, was quite similar to the trance she was in while using the alethiometer, and while Will had used the knife. And so Lyra thought it might be Dust which was part of this form of travel. It was conscious after all, and like how the Dust particles in the world of the mulefa had responded to Mary's fear when she was drifting out of her body in that trance, while she was in the seedpod tree, maybe the same thing was happening here. Interesting…she thought. So, since Lyra knew this trance so well, the first part of this travel was not too hard for her, it was the actual traveling that was difficult. It must take a lot of Dust to let a person travel worlds, she thought.
~*~
Lyra and Pan didn't have much time to worry about strange behavior from Alec or his daemon that day, because, as Alec had said, this required their full attention. And later, when they were done for the day, they were all so tired that they couldn't think about it much.
~*~
A/N: I hope you liked chapter 4, chapter 5 is coming. And sorry if this chapter took longer to post, I've been having a bit of writer's block. Please R&R!
: )
A/N: This is chapter 4: Lessons. I hope you like it, and by the way, the only way I'll know if you liked it or not is if you REVIEW. (hint hint)
~*~ Lessons ~*~
"But why, Pan?" Asked Lyra. "It doesn't make sense." Lyra and Pan were walking down the path to the big oak tree where they were meeting Alec and Kiallie. They were starting lessons today. They were discussing the strange behavior Pan had noticed last week.
"I don't know." Answered Pan. "But Kiallie was definitely very unhappy. She was feeling Alec's pain."
"But what pain? What do you think is wrong?"
"I don't know, it could be anything." He answered. They had almost reached the tree, and Alec was waiting for them. Lyra decided to put it out of her mind for the time being. She had been waiting for what seemed like an eternity to see Will again, and she wasn't about to let one person and his daemon hold her back.
~*~
Alec had been struggling with his thoughts all week. He was anxious for, and dreading this day, at the same time, though he wasn't sure that was even possible. On the one hand, he would get a chance to spend a lot more time with Lyra. Yet, on the other hand, every minute that she spent with him in lessons, Lyra was getting one step closer to Will…and one step further from him. Alec sighed heavily.
"It's going to be alright." Said Kiallie. She hopped from the low- hanging tree branch she was perched on, and onto his shoulder.
"Yeah…sure…" He mumbled. "Hey, there's Lyra!" Alec looked much happier now, but Kiallie knew he was just making things worse for himself.
~*~
"Hi Alec!" Said Lyra enthusiastically, Alec could tell she couldn't wait to get started.
"Hi Lyra." Said Alec. "Well, let me see…I've already told you this is complicated. Um, I guess we'll start off with the trance. See, once you're in it, you sort of imagine where you want to go, you need to picture the place in your mind vividly. The sights, the sounds, you know. Then you imagine yourself into the scene. Then, you kind of are in the scene.
"It sounds a lot easier than it is, I promise you." Alec continued, seeing the look on Lyra's face. "Anyway, we'll get back to that later, lets start with entering the trance, we'll go on from there."
Lyra was sitting on one of the tree's massive roots, focused on Alec with all of her attention. "What do I need to do?" She asked.
"Well, just close your eyes, and relax your mind. Free your mind from any outside thoughts, stay focused. Then, just do what I said before: picture the place you want to be. And be specific, like the sounds you might hear there and stuff. You have to concentrate very hard, but don't try to force it. Slowly slip into the trance. We'll start small first, you know, only traveling a few meters at a time, not into a different world." Lyra nodded.
~*~
They practiced for hours, and Lyra soon made a discovery. She saw that the trance Alec was teaching her, was quite similar to the trance she was in while using the alethiometer, and while Will had used the knife. And so Lyra thought it might be Dust which was part of this form of travel. It was conscious after all, and like how the Dust particles in the world of the mulefa had responded to Mary's fear when she was drifting out of her body in that trance, while she was in the seedpod tree, maybe the same thing was happening here. Interesting…she thought. So, since Lyra knew this trance so well, the first part of this travel was not too hard for her, it was the actual traveling that was difficult. It must take a lot of Dust to let a person travel worlds, she thought.
~*~
Lyra and Pan didn't have much time to worry about strange behavior from Alec or his daemon that day, because, as Alec had said, this required their full attention. And later, when they were done for the day, they were all so tired that they couldn't think about it much.
~*~
A/N: I hope you liked chapter 4, chapter 5 is coming. And sorry if this chapter took longer to post, I've been having a bit of writer's block. Please R&R!
: )