Aquitain wascaught as he had no way of telling whether she was telling thetruth or not and to try and cleave Katarina’s spirit in two whileit partially covered Miranda’s spirit was too dangerous, so herreluctantly accepted the Mentarin’s suggestion and took theFelynx’s hand.
‘What’s happening?’ asked Moonbeam fearfully through the mindlink.
‘Don’t be scared Moonbeam, the friendly spirit Katarina ismoving your spirit into your real body which I have been saving foryou.’ And seconds later it was done.
Katarinasmiled. ‘Thank you for your trust.’
‘Lord Borse sends you this warning. Releasing your father maynot be in some of the gods’ best interests. You will need to watchyour back,’ and with that Katarina teleported away.
‘Um.. what just happened asked?’ asked Gizel.
‘Where’s Mummy gone?’ screamed Tigerlilly.
Aquitain turnedand looked at Navarro, Gizel and Tigerlilly and they all fellasleep.
‘Good now I might be able to concentrate’, he thought tohimself.
Aquitain laidMiranda’s body on the ground with his green crystal body on herchest and asked Moonbeam not to be afraid as she was going to movehis spirit out of her body and find her lost memories.
He put Moonbeaminto an hypnotic trance. He moved his spirit back to his littlegreen crystal body and sealed both his and Moon beam’s spirits tothe respective bodies.
He thenexamined her spirit aura and as he had suspected most of hermemories had been blocked back to an age of perhaps six or seven.There were also some changes in her aura itself suggesting thatsomeone had tampered with her spirit. That worried him but he hadno knowledge of what had been done or how to fix it.
He called onall memories that had recently been blocked and starting with herearliest memories he systematically unblocked them year-by-yearright to the present. He also unblocked some other interestingmemories then released her from the hypnosis.
Miranda wassuddenly conscious, she stood up and he fell off onto the ground.She stepped back from him then seeing his little crystal body hermemories readjusted.
She looked atAquitain’s aura through the mindlink and said.
‘By the Lady, look at your source and your spirit looksdifferent. Is it really you Tain?’
‘Yes, It’s me Mandy my love. Although I’ve changed a littlesince we last met. My source has grown and I’ve much news to sharewith you. You’re a difficult person to track down you know. Ifyou’d just stay in your body it would be much easier.’
‘What happened to my body? The last thing I can remember itwas turned to stone.’
‘Your spirit was stolen by one of the Mentarin and ended up inthat Felynx body. The Mentarin moved your spirit back to your realbody and I have unblocked your memories.’
‘But how?’ asked Miranda. ‘It was stone. How did you get intoit?’
‘Let’s just say I’ve learnt a few new tricks. Don’t you wantit back? You can have my little green crystal body if you like. Iwas beginning to like yours. It’s got some good features. I’venever looked so attractive.’
‘You’re disgusting, Aquitain. I hope you haven’t done anythingwhile you’ve been in it.’
‘No that damn tattoo is still there’ he said with a wrysmile.
‘Now before I do anything more I have to fix a little problemwith Tigerlilly.’
‘I am about to do something I swore I’d never do. Tamper withsomeone’s mind without their consent. However, in this case I hopethat it will save us a lot of problems in the future.’
‘What are you talking about?’ asked Miranda.
‘You remember when I made you a wooden doll in the dream. WellI didn’t do quite what I expected. We have a daughter.’
‘WHAT! HOW! We didn’t do anything. You didn’t hide anything inmy memory did you?’ said Miranda panicking a little.
‘No! Of course not! It’s a long story but I had some veryspecial knowledge hidden in my memory on how to make bodies. Toescape from a soul crystal, I unblocked the information and made abody for both Yllandril and myself.’
‘When I made Tigerlilly, remember how you made a heart fromyour little finger and I made a brain from mine. Your bit of spiritand mine somehow decided to combine. The result is Tigerlilly, whois our baby in a unique wooden body.’
‘I thought she was a bit unusual for a construct, but sheseems like a little girl much older than a couple of days old.’said Miranda.
‘Yes that is a problem. When I made her I gave her the specialability to be permanently mind linked to both you and me. She alsoinherited my mind wizard ability and has her own source, which isvery small at the moment but will undoubtedly grow. Her mind isalso fully developed and she has good coordination.’
‘The real problem is that she has worked out how to read yourmemories. She has read yours that were open and is acting much thesame age as you were before I just returned all the later years.She also read some of mine and can even tap into my source to usemy power to power my abilities for her purposes. We can’t allow herto do that. She must have her own memories not ours. She must learnrestraint and control, ethics and morality because she’s going tobe a very powerful mind wizard one day.’
‘By the Lady, I’m a mother and I didn’t know it. What are yougoing to do to her.’ asked Miranda in a mild panic.
‘I’ll block off everything after about five years old. I’llblock off her source and her ability to read our memories. I’llleave the mindlink so that we can keep in continual contact andwe’ll need to start teaching her. If you teach her how to be adruid and I teach her how to be a mind wizard just imagine whatshe’ll be like in a few years’ time.’ said Aquitain.
‘Yes, she’ll be a continual headache that will get worse asshe grows older. From the day I met you I knew you’d be a problem.Why didn’t I just turn into a tree and bask in the sun for a fewyears until you went
