3 What She Saw In The Looking Glass (1/2)
When Frey's spiritual roots were measured, their quality made her a sought after cultivation genius. Most concepts were easy for her to grasp and expand on and within a few years she had become a core member of her clan.
Her future was boundless and soon she became the disciple of Tabitha, a seer. A seer, is someone who is blessed with eyesight that allowed one to see the future, past and present. Seers are far and few between and are mainly recognized for their ability to find a person's soul mate. A soul mate is as the name implies, someone whose soul is one half yours, someone who was made especially for you, someone to love and understand you unconditionally.
However many do not meet nor realize they are soul mates. Many influential and prestigious clans and sects are able to call upon a seer to match souls, but the ma.s.ses do not have this ability. That is why Tabitha is so highly regarded.
Many thought she had taken Frey due to Frey having such an ability. This was unfortunately not true. Tabitha had chosen Frey due to her potential and that she saw in Frey a broken soul. A broken soul is what can be regarded as someone who does not have a soul mate or was separated from theirs through a painful ritual of rejection. It is said that with each incarnation a soul mate remains a fixed variable. However if the other half dies with their soul shattering or if the ritual as previously mentioned as part of a permanent separation takes place, in the next incarnation the soul can only come back broken.
Tabitha was a broken soul and in Frey she saw herself.
When Frey learnt her soul was broken, her heart was devastated, the stories of love that she fantasized as a youth were broken promises. She wanted to see what Tabitha would not tell her, she wanted to know why.
Frey was always interested in time, so with the aid of many precious resources she strengthened her eyes and practiced a special divine ability. Most divine abilities just like martial abilities are ranked. However Frey practiced one that was not ranked as it was forbidden. Tabitha allowed her to do so, believing that each person makes their own faith with their own choices.
In order to practice the ability that would grant her foresight, she had to separate a piece of her soul. This piece was then soaked in her heart blood for three days and nights, following which it was polished for nine years with the blood of unicorns.
She then placed her soul into a looking gla.s.s and each year she would be able to distinguish more of the blurry images until she could piece together a picture. It was only later on that she learnt the energy required to look into the future was her vitality.
Her soul caged in the looking gla.s.s, was aged and sickly a sign that her soul was cut off not by her intention.
One of the first things she did was try to see if her senior brother was her soul mate. He was the boy who made her heart feel alive and her soul not as broken as though he could piece it together again.