Resting and recuperation

The first night, I slept pretty well, considering my injuries. I guess there’s nothing like being covered in burns to instill a restful spirit. I don’t think I’ll use this method in the future, though.

( Esther, maybe understandably, wants to know why I was on fire. )

I tried to sew later on, but my fingers were too blistered and bleeding. Ester left a little fire, so I started doing my rite again, and sorting through my problems.

The next two days, I had more time to practice the sigil. I went outside to try, and got it to the point where I can make the signs in the air without screwing up. If I mess up the signs, the sigil putters out into a puff of smoke. But even when I draw them right, it seems like it only draws the elemental’s attention. To actually summon it there, I have to do something different. Call it somehow, or, rip a hole in the gauntlet, or… maybe both. I tried pulling it through the gauntlet with just the power of my spirit nature - very brute force. And not successful.

When I haven’t been practicing that, I’ve been resting and thinking. I can’t help the thinking - I’m stuck in the near ape form for healing inside. I’ve tried to keep my thoughts more towards useful topics, like mages, and the study of the mandala. I can’t sketch it in the public place, though. I feel if I had a better grasp of the name-breaker writing system, more of this would make sense. It’s been useful in helping me generate some new ideas about working spirits, even if not everything is clear in it. I’ve had an idea - maybe a terrible one - where I take a Inuksuk, but made of ice, and…

Well, that idea needs work. After I finish mastering the elementals.

After I heal more.