Inner Discord

Chapter 7

'By the way, sir, I don't know what's your name yet?', Boeithe asked me.

'Call me Phoneus, Boeithe.' 

'Oh, okay. Well, Phoneus, to find your way, you have to make use of the knowledge that everyone has saved inside themselves. Everyone knows everything, you only have to get to it. You can do it this way: concentrate on your magic, and take this position.' She sat down, laid her arms to the side and crossed her legs. 'Then close your eyes and feel your own soul.  Let the energy stream within you. Now you're ready to ask your own soul anything.'

I tried to follow her instructions, but the first time I failed grandiose. The next time I thought I succeeded in finding an energy stream of which I had to laugh very loud, but it turned out it was just Boeithe tickling me. The third time I could not possibly stay still. I was sick of it and asked Boeithe: 'Does any elemental magic mage have these katana?'

'No, they have their own weapons.'

'Can't it be then, that to control soul, I have to summon my katana?'

'Try, we'll see it then', she replied.

I did what I did earlier, and surprisingly now the katana was summoned really fast. A deep, beautiful purple light shined from it. 'Okay, time for finding my way!', I yelled. I concentrated my energy in my sword and concentrated in finding my own soul. Rapidly I fell in trance.

'Hello Phoneus.'

I was scared by that weird sound, and got up. I looked around me and was unable to see where the hell I was. The whole space kept changing colors, making it even more difficult for me to differentiate some shapes. I decided to answer the voice that spoke to me. 'Who are you?'

'I'm your inner soul of wisdom.'

'Oh, so have I succeeded in finding you?'

'That's something you have to find out yourself.'

'Do you know how to find the training camp?'

'Maybe... I don't know. Perhaps I don't want you to know it either.'

'Why don't you just say it?'

'I'm preventing myself from saying it to you.'

'Why that?'

'Well, I'm your wisdom part, but your reasoning part doesn't want you to know it.'

'So stupid... How would I be able to control other's souls if my own doesn't want to even just help me?'

'How would I know?'

'I want to form a deal: you negate the reasoning part and help me, and I promise I'll prove he wasn't right.'

'Well... I doubt you can do that, but in principle, I cannot disobey you, so here you have it: just walk north for another 500 km, you can find north by following the moon now, at this moment, and keep orientating with the moon.'

'How that? It can't be night already, can it?'

'It is night, you've been here already an hour. Now hurry up and leave, because Boeithe wants something from you.'

'Okay...'

I opened my eyes again, Boeithe looking desperately at me. When she saw I had woke up, she hugged me hard enough to kill an elephant. 'Oh, you stayed away for so long... That's not normal, I thought you were a goner...'

'I had some problems with my soul...'

'Don't tell me you succeeded already?! That's fantastic!'

'Yes, I think I did... Anyway, could you let go of me now? We don't have much time, I want to continue and I still have to find 200 arguria and go 500 km.'