107 Chapter 107 Double Minded (2/2)
It was a very busy couple of days as people settled. Joseph spent those days, organizing the mages and barbarians, while his dad handled everyone else.
Whenever one of his minds grew tired of the stress, he would swap out to the other one, and let it study magic. It definitely would take some getting used to, but at the same time, really helped him deal with the stress. During the worst times, both of his minds had to pay attention to everyone speaking and giving out directions, but he already had a good bit of practice handling a lot of people asking him questions at once, so he only needed to do that a few times.
Though the mind in charge of his body, versus the background mind, worked well together most of the time. Whenever the background mind started thinking of funny stuff, and shared it with the mind in charge of the body, he would start laughing for no reason.
They both understood that they could only do that around Stella, so he didn't have to explain to everyone he wasn't actually crazy. She already thought he was, and still chose to stay with him, thankfully.
The new mind, the background one, chose to travel to the magical realm one morning, which was really odd, because the other mind suddenly couldn't talk to him. Then, a little figure appeared in front of his chest, startling him.
”Um, Stella?”
”Master Joseph, is your other brain in that rune world you talk about?”
”Um, yes. That was the plan. Whoa! The little me is speaking origin words!”
He could suddenly feel a breeze. He was going to learn CREATE AIR.
”Stella, does this happen every time I do this?”
She looked at him, ”You mean, you aren't doing it on purpose?”
”Oh, shavist!”
Joseph ran to the bed, to lay down. He had to get to his other self, to make him stop. Quickly entering the magical realm, he dived into the AIR rune. He startled himself.
”What are you doing here?”
Joseph quickly explained the situation to himself.
”We can't practice like this anymore.”
”But isn't this a perfect opportunity to practice group magic?”
”What do I mean? Oh of course!”
”Here each of us is independent, so we would cast magic separately, but since we still share minds, we would also be group casting.”
”Exactly! We would be able to practice our ceremonial magic at the same time.”
”Excellent! Let's try that!”
They started speaking the words together and observing the differences. It was amazing. As one of them spoke the main words, the other could speak the inflection and get much finer control, than he could alone. After what seemed to be several hours, he looked up at Stella.
”Uh, I got distracted a bit.”
She put her hands on her hips and looked at him for a moment before saying, ”For someone with supposedly such high will, you seem to have failed to resist quite well.”
”I can't help it. n.o.body is better at talking me into something than myself. We are properly reflecting.”
She just sighed and handed him a cookie. ”Here, you'll need this or you'll be tired.”
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