Chapter Sixty-Nine

'Reach for it…'

'Stretch...'

I dug deep within myself, searching where I had felt that familiar energy first stem from. Before it used to always feel like it was just out of arm's length, as if only the tip of my fingernail could graze it, but now it felt as though I needed several more appendages just to get anywhere near it.

But it was there. I had to believe that it hadn’t just been my imagination.

'Stretch just a little further…'

But then I exhaled quickly in release, panting from the strain it had caused to my body.

I’d been sitting on my bed practising ever since arriving back at my guest lodgings. However, since starting over an hour ago, there had been little to show in progress.

I knew there had to be a trick to this, some sort of internal cue to summon it. Elder Luke had mentioned that this energy was something that could be trained but I was now trying to accomplish it with a sever