Alone in the Woods

Chapter 5 - Meditation

I went back to the magic place. I started calling it the grove, since it felt very druidy.

Anyway at the grove I greeted the plants, and made sure to greet the elemental. Like my genius brain predicted, they were a very friendly rock thing. They were also definitely a they, not a he or she like the animals I had met, and not an it like the plants, except that one tree. She was a very weird tree.

The elemental spoke that same weird language the smart trees around here spoke. But like the animals and the plants I could communicate back and forth with them. They told me they were a guardian of the grove, to protect it from monsters and evil. They spoke very rigidly and politely, unlike the trees of the grove that were a bit more abstract and whimsical.

I made sure it was okay for me to sit in the meditation spot. I had changed my mind since yesterday, my bare ass on stone was definitely worth potentially gaining cool new magic. Sorry butt.

They had no problem with it, so I sat down and did the thing. I guess it was more of an attempt, since I had no idea what I was doing. I think I once heard that there was a 'clear your mind' part to meditating, but that sounded made up. My mind never shuts up, my thoughts are like a fox with perpetual zoomies.

Since not thinking was literally impossible, I decided to just make may hands do the glowy healy thing. Or as my educated brain should think, I am channeling primal magics. So I sat there for a while, one hand twirling my long ass hair, the other blinking like a flashlight turning on and off constantly.

I tried doing morse code flashes till I remembered I had no idea how morse code worked. Then I moved on to poking things with the glowy hand. Turns out healing magic is also growing magic, as I had left a freshly grown mossy handprint on the meditation rock. Next thing I know I'm doing magical glowy finger moss drawings on the rock.

An idea hits me, if its growing magic can it make me grow? Well I don't want to get old or tall, so I try my hair. One glowing hand on my head later proved that it did make my hair grow much faster. Now my long ass hair was super long ass hair. I had no scissors. Also I don't know how to braid. I did not think this through.

Overall, the meditation did help me learn magic, just in a very roundabout way. I am a very wise druidess. Oddly enough my shenanigans had not taken that much time out of the day. So back to the meditation.

I was definitely bored of hand glowing for the moment, so I used my only other magic power, talking to nature stuff. I chatted up the trees. Asked them questions like: How old are you? Do you know where we are? What does sunlight taste like? Have you ever met another druid? Can you help me with my magic training?

What's it like being a tree? Turned out to be the correct question. Around a week ago I had seen through the eyes of my wolf mom. This time, I was sensing things through a magic tree. Trees didn't see, but I could feel things and sense stuff around them. I could even feel the light of the sun on its leaves. Wow.

I cut the connection like I did with wolf mom, then asked if I could practice connecting senses with it. The tree said sure in its weird tree magic tree language. Not only could I share senses with it, I could move the tree while doing so. The same way they moved when I asked.

Next I asked a bush of the grove, one with thorny vines. After getting the ok, I was able to sense and move it as well, also the slimer branches had way more movement.

Then I had the coolest idea of the day. Combine my sense sharing and my glowy hand trick. The bushes vines grew as they glowed green into long tendrils that I could pick things up with. Then I asked for one of its vines, and after breaking it off, I tried using my sense sharing and growing power to make it a magic whip. That hunter would regret running into me again.

The sense sharing stuff took far longer than the first bit and I headed back to the den so wolf mom wouldn't freak out. Since we had the deer last night I knew she wouldn't have hunted today, so I picked up some berries on the way home. Not the lethal kind. Obviously.

Upon getting back she asked why my head fur had gotten so long, and I explained my magic training. With my trusty vine whip I showed off the stuff I'd learned today. She was very proud I'd gotten a means to protect myself.

It was cuddle night like every night. I loved it, and I loved my wolf mom.