When the morning came Lord Father , Bran and Ned once again met Berek at gates to the Godswood. He seemed to be carrying some some parchments and charcoal.
" Good Morning, Lord Stark," Berek greeted bowing .
" The same to you, how are you going to demonstrate your powers? " Lord Father questioned.
"It would be better if we have no prying ears and a place for me to sit," Berek replied and went into Godswood. We followed .
Once they entered with a smaller clearing with a boulders to sit upon, Berek seated himself after them. Then from above branches a barn owl with brown feathers swooped in and alighted on Bereks shoulder and a house cat with black fur stepped out of shadows and started nuzzling his legs.
" Lord Stark let me introduce two of three my Familiars, Alma the Cat and Watcher the Owl", Berek said with a bow and the animals followed suit dipping their heads .
" As for how I am going to demonstrate my powers, as you have seen the parchment I carry, I will give you those to you, I will turn around, one of you will be watching me by standing in front of me, another of you will write something on the parchment and show it to one of my Familiars and I will tell you what you wrote without seeing it my own eyes",Berek explained.
Lord Father took upon the role of watching Berek, Ned went first and wrote 'Stark' and showed it to the cat, Lord Father flinched a bit as he was observing, when Berek said," Not very creative, Lord Eddard, you wrote 'Stark' " . The tests continued in that vein, Ned and Bran took turns writing on parchment and, they wrote sentences, even a paragraph once, they showed them to Cat and Owl in no particular order. Berek always identified who showed it and what was written. Ned and Bran got more and more excited as this went on. After the paragraph Father put an end to it and said that he believed him and asked how it is done.
" Warging is not just slipping into to an animals skin and controlling it, Lord Stark. As I said it has nuances. If a warg is strong enough he or she can slip into any animal, but a fully grown animal or bird has its own personality and intelligence and if a Warg tries to slip into unfamiliar skin the Warg will have to expend a great deal of mental strength to take control and it will fight back against said control, if you ever let your Will lose grip during Warging, he or she faces danger of losing themselves to animals instincts. I know this is confusing, let us establish some facts: One, Warging takes mental and magical energy. Two, it is dangerous to Warg into unfamiliar animal or bird as they will have a chance to fight back and hurt the Warg mentally. Three, Warging for a prolonged time and losing control is dangerous as a Warg might lose themselves to animal instincts and not know how to be human when they return to their own bodies. "
" An awakened Warg can always tell when there is another awakened Warg near by, it is like a pressure you feel at the back of the neck. And an awakened and trained Warg can tell if the second Warg is trained and how powerful they can be. Wargs exude a mental prescence if awakened, even people with no magic can feel that they are different. What can be done with this Mental presence is not yet fully explored. Now best time to train a Warg would be when they have at least reached age one and ten. Younger than that there is a greater risk of personality and instinct bleed over from the animal, as children younger than that don't have a solid base for their own personalities. Now the benefits of Warging, I will explain them with my own self as examples. As I have said I have three familiar. My Owl, Watcher, I can scout vast areas. If I was travelling and didn't want to risk bandits or even meeting other travellers, I send Watcher to scout, I will know where others are without them ever knowing I was there, knowing that they were there, avoiding them becomes as easy as turning my hand. If I am going situation unfamiliar to me and I am dubious of their intentions towards me, I send Alma to observe for me, and ascertain their intentions with ever putting myself at risk. My Lizard lion familiar, Tor, whom I left at home as he isn't comfortable leaving the swamps, joins me in battle and gaurds me as Kingsguard protect the King. These are only obvious uses of Warging. On that note, I will take your leave, if you decide that you and your children should learn Warging call on me", Berek bowed low to Lord Father and left.