CHAPTER 13
280 ac
I had heard that the ravens can solve easy problems and puzzles but I didn't think they could open a latch lock. It looks like I was sorely mistaken about it. I took them out of the cage and secured the murder scene. Erebus was rising his wings and cawing at me. It this little prick challenging me? I looked inside the cage and It was really bad. Blue and white feathers were everywhere and almost nothing was left of it. Poor Blue you will be missed a bit. Let's be honest here , I never treated it like a pet, it was just a tool to be used on for my magical training but when I was done with it, I wouldn't killed it. I would have gifted it to someone else.
I cleaned up the mess and throw away the cage because I wouldn't be needing it anymore. I took Poe to my hand and started to familiar bound spell. It was like as always slow process. The process feels like making a bridge by adding tiny little threads to each other. If the other side doesn't reach out to you have to spent more mana. For Poe she was reaching a bit but not that much. It is still a wild bird even though I was feeding it for the past 6 to 7 week. At least it is not resisting to the bound. I m almost spent I think I have only 1 or 2 mana left. It feels like I can touch with my finger tips but still not there. I focus one more time and push with the rest of my mana it is going to work I know it. The second I spent my last mana everything goes white and I can see a big visage as big as me but my eyes are not able to focus yet.
I close my eyes again and take a big breath trying to calm and focus. When I open them again I see a giant raven I see Poe, she is as big as me. The visage was her. Wait a minute. Is she as big as me or am I as small as her now? Ihh, my brain hurts whatever it is, it feels weird. I look at her and she looks at me, when I turn my head sideways it does the same, I raise my arms and she raises her wings. I can feel her. She is feeling curious about me about this room and about the lights coming around the blinds. She is curious about everything. I can feel the bottomless desire to fly and to be free then everything goes black.
When I wake up I see the lights trickling down from the small cracks between the blinds I got up and open the blinds and look out from the window. The Sun is at the east side of the castle. How could this be sun was just setting when I came to my room then right, I tried to establish a bound and succeeded yes, I can feel it now , I can feel Poe. It means I was out for 12 hours at the very least. It must be because I have exhausted my mana
Now I have a familiar what can I do I m really curious. It is unfair to Erebus but I cant take him outside yet. I just will it and Poe looks at me and caws after few seconds it starts to fly clumsily and perches on my shoulder I go out while Erebus was cawing at us. I go towards the Godswood. I think it is the perfect place to train in the castle if you want to be alone. Yes most people go there to pray to the old gods but they only go to the weirwood tree and I always go to the ends of the forest close to the walls. With elemental magic when I contemplate on it the spells comes to me instinctively. I still don't know which language I m using to cast. I set Poe on a rock and focus on to the connection we have. The tether is like a two way street I can feel her and she can feel me. I can order her but it feels like she is free to do it or not. I think she can refuse an order or resist it if she doesn't want to do it. It is about our will too because I have a stronger will she cant refuse my orders that much. If I hold the tether connecting us I can make her do what I want but it will hurt the tether, it might even break it.
I think the tether will get stronger if I treat her well. If I force her to do thing she doesn't want to it will get weaker. Now I m starting to understand the bound, I m starting to get magical applications of it too. I can use my magic to sense where is my familiar. If I can strengthen it to last for kilometers, it will be such a good scouting spell and the connection we have provides me with a buff I think now I can use the bound. I have better eye sight. It feels like I can see two times the distance. This time I m trying something else I sent my conscious through the tether and open my eyes oh, god this is weird. I can see myself . this is the first time I see my face in this life. It is really weird. I have a really dark black hair that looks like a birds nest. That figures I never comb my hair I don't even own a comb. I should start looking after myself. My eyes are silver colored and I have a pale white face. It looks I bit freaky. My eyes are open and I m blinking but it is like I m sleepwalking. Literally there is nobody at home. I start flapping my wings and try to fly, it feels natural to fly I can feel Poe's weak wings getting tired. So I perch on a branch. I can even feel her conscious too. She is starting to feel uncomfortable so I end the connection. It goes black and I get back to my body.
