07 ~ Excitement

"Ho ho well hello there little man, I'm guessing your parents aren't back yet then?"

Looking up lost as to what to say to this old man with a stupidly big smile across his face.

"Auja.. ah. Hello?"

Not really knowing what to say, Jason just went with what he remembered his Mom and Dad always asked Doctor Alec when he stopped by.

"Do you want to come in mister? I... I don't know where Mom and Dad are, but they should be back soon. You give us vegetables for the animals, right?"

Jason pointed to their couch and stiffly walked to the rocking chair across from it and plopped down. Erog, taking the hint, came in taking off his boots and overcoat at the door and sitting down on the couch crossing his feet.

Looking at Jason, who was far smaller than the rocking chair he sat in looking at him completely dumbfounded as to what to do next, his smile just couldn't leave his face. Getting the chance to really look at him, Erog's attention was drawn mostly to the boys marbled grey, white, and black pupils that were still far bigger than the rest of his facial features. Looking at the rest of the young boy before him, hair pure white, and his skin like light snow. Yet the rest of the boy was about what you'd expect from a five-year-old kid.

Finishing giving him a head to toe inspection, Erog broke the silence between the two. "Funny enough I came here because of you! But I need to talk to your parents first before I say anything to you. Though, I would like to use the chance to see the kid that's left even Alec baffled." He muttered off towards the end and Jason couldn't quite hear the latter part.

Leaning forward, Erog put out his hand, "My name is Erog Carleon, kid nice to meet yeah.". Seeing the boy look on confused, Erog chuckled, "This is the part where normally, you'd reach your hand out like this, and say something like 'My name is Jason Tesla, pleasures mine' and take my hand and shake it once. Here like this..."

While Erog was coaching Jason through the basics of an introduction, Irina and Damir had just come back in front of the house, confused by the voices they heard coming from their home, the two quickly dismounted Odin.

Giving each other a look and quickly heading on inside, the two could only chuckle at the site they were greeted with. Erog and Jason were holding each other's hand while Jason would wave his arm over and over.

"My name is Jason, pleasures mine?"

"Nope, up and down."

"My name is Jason, pleasures mine?"

"Don't move your whole arm, just from your elbow."

"My name is Jason, pleasures mine?"

"Bit more of a smile, straighten your... Oh, welcome back to you two! Sorry about this, I just got here, I came on by after hearing your, umm, conversation with Orellin."

Again, the two looked to one another for about the fifth time now, Damir looked back at Erog with a flat awkward smile. After rubbing his forehead, he went to open his mouth when Erog piped up, "I didn't say anything to the wee one here, no worries, and the reason I'm here makes anything you're about to say pointless anyway."

Jason, Damir, and Irina all looked right to Erog with attention as he continued, "Truth be it, I used to be a professor at Malakcow Royal Military College, where I taught and studied advanced mechanisms. I don't know if I can hold up to what Orellin knows about teaching from her blood and all that, but I am pretty confident in at least teaching someone the basics of reading, writing and arithmetic."

Jason looked at Erog with complete confusion, but Irina and Damir's mouths were almost hitting the floor. "You're kidding right? I, we, don't even know what to say to that."

"Oh I'm dead serious, I don't have to tend to my farm past late noon basically. Run him over every day around then to me, I'll make sure he can at least write his name!"

Erog's cheerful reply was enough to make the couple realize what he was saying to be reality. Picking up their jaws off the floor, Damir began to tear up and with a quivering smile walked over and gave Erog a huge hug. No one said anything else, but Jason was starting to figure it out.

'I guess I won't be going to the school house like Mom and Dad were talking about. But Erog's apparently even better based off their reactions.'

After his parents spoke with Erog for a bit longer he headed out, the rest of the night both his parents had a jump in their steps. During the night too, Jason's crib had been upgraded to a wooden bed by the fire Damir had built for him two years ago.

He still had to sleep in the same room as his parents though because they didn't have any other bedrooms. Their excitement from early evening still hadn't faded and their bed had a jump in it too.

Unable to sleep anytime soon, he began to use his light to look into himself. The reactionary system in his head has been growing immensely over the past four years, all the reactionary pathways in his body had undergone drastic changes as well. They originally were like everyone else, except for the ones in his mind, but as he entered his state of rest and accumulated light everyday with time things changed.

The pathways in his mind began to change from white to more of a grey that reflected that of the light that flowed within them and he controlled normally. With that, the pathways throughout his whole body began to change as well to that of what his mind possessed before, with these changes he noticed he could see for farther and maintain his light outside his body for longer before it broke apart and returned.

He could maintain his light outside his body long enough now he could use it for an entire day if he wanted to, though the toll was he'd barely be able to keep his eyes open the next day, he'd yearn to accumulate more light.

If he pushed past these limits it would be even worse, his head would ring, occasionally throbbing with pain, and he'd feel like something was pulling him out of his own mind from the the back of his eyes out the back of his skull. He would abstain from doing such a thing, unless accidentally when he's carried away in his excitement.

Just thinking about the idea of that sensation made his heart race, and his mind feel like its swelling with the pit in his stomach. To say the least, he preferred not to do that, but the sensation of these changes from him accumulating the light was phenomenal.

On nights like this he would experiment with different ways to pull the light towards his body or move it through the pathways. Tonight while he was testing he noticed that every time he would pull light almost in reverse from how he would normally use it, that the light would disperse into his body.

Normally to use his light and project it he could emit it from anywhere, he could move his light from his mind through his pathways and out in any direction he wanted. But that would result in him seeing whatever was inside of him between pathways and the surface of his skin.

This extra detail could result in a sensory overload, he was once using it to see completely around him as we walked around the farm while his parents worked with the animals. He was observing the plants, the different shapes in the soil below him, the odd animal that was moving around, just enjoying the view.

With the growth of his light gaining back the qualities of what it was like before, he could again view the memories of the minds his light touched. Though he had to be careful with this too, as with his added human senses he was now able to view, feel, and understand the memories he'd made contact with, unlike before he could process, relate to, and comprehend them now.

While he was roaming around the farm jumping from spot to spot, occasionally running his parents had been watching on smiling. Then suddenly he froze up, standing still with his arms at his side, Irina noticed, and ran over but just began laughing at what she saw. Seeing that Damir was at ease and walked over but he started laughing too once he saw it too.

Jason was looking down, eyes frozen, hands clenched at his side, looking on an ant hill, the look on his face was somewhere between crying and hurling. The two thought he was just freaked out by the sight of the ants, that wasn't far off only he was currently processing the memories of thousands of ants. In his alarm he didn't notice that Irina and Damir had walked up and got flooded with their memories and thoughts as well. His hands were drenched and like the sweat tumbling down his palms and onto the ground he felt his sight leave him, he fell crumpled down to the ground.

The two parents never thought he'd have such a reaction to seeing ants, Irina carried him on inside and put him to bed. While Damir went around the farm with a water bucket and irradiated every anthill he could find.

So after that Jason was always rather careful as to who or what he let his light touch, always making sure not to let out more light than he can handle. This included moving his light through his own body outside of the reactionary light pathways, his eyes however were like an opening to these pathways. If he sends his light through the light pathways out and through his eyes then he wouldn't have to deal with the extra sensory input that would come with that.

As he accumulated more light and the changes to his mind and pathways continued, he was able to handle more information at once. Thus letting him see for farther while using it, or just generally more.

This method of using his light was now the standard, he pushed the light out of his eyes, and then pulled using the finest pathways that connected to and then traveled along the surface of his skin to bring more light in, feeding this to his mind to stabilize the light he was emitting for longer.

But this process in reverse pulled light in through his eyes, spread it through his head, mind, and body and to capacity, then releasing it slowly trapped seemed to trap some of the light drawn in throughout his entire body.

Some would deposit in the channels connected to his heart, changing from the smooth bordered marbled iridescent streams of light, to then igniting with a vigor. Then flowing along through those channels trapped, but yet creating a constant flow within. Accumulating light normally he would just draw it in through his entire body until it was full and he needed to stop for a number of reasons.

The feeling was normally very tingly, but this time it felt like he was about to explode with excitement. Taking a deep breath in he was suddenly struck with an idea, 'My breath!? If I bring in light through my sight, could I bring it in when I breathe too?'

Immediately taking action on the thought, he began by exhaling all the air out of his lungs, then taking a deep breath in. The breath in was far different from normal, he felt it thick and as if it was resisting pulling back, the resistance eventually shattered, air rushed through his nose and into his lungs filling them with light. Jason's face twitched when the resistance broke, he could feel every pathway in his lungs rip open and hungrily devour every drop.

The light rushed through his lungs and accumulated in the channels of his heart again like before the this surge was far more than the little droplets of before. It condensed and surged, the light he'd absorbed this time was pure white in colour, it filled every channel big and small. The surging and condensing continued with each pained breath, but the sensation that would fill him on the breath out was like a warm blanket wiping away the pain from his mind each time.

Repeating this over, solid twisting streams began to form and flow throughout his entire body they would pulse, ebb, and flow with rhythm of his heart. Suddenly gasping, the breath he took in felt hollow, he felt like he was reaching for air but nothing was coming in. Instinctively breathing normally, he regained the already limited colour to his face.

'Well that's exciting! Definitely hurts, but it definitely feels good too.' His body felt more refreshed than ever, it felt like he'd become exhausted from resting, looking in he saw the strands of his muscles and every other part of his body now held little strands of light. They were divided into two different types, one was like his reactionary pathways only these ones were of pure light yet still functioned the same. The others connected to the channels of his heart and blood, these streams had the same quality's as those within the channels, they possessed structure but seemed to be almost burning with vigor across its surface.

They also appeared to only be providing additional paths for his blood. Jason looked on at these changes inward with wonder while he pretended to be asleep until morning.

'Oh yeah, Erog's gonna start teaching me tomorrow too!' His eyes widened at the realization it appeared today was going to be full of more excitement.