- Before Yin Yan

I finally woke up when the alarm rang and felt so much better. I just did not want the day to end but there were so many things that were not in any mortal's control.

I slowly got up from the cot and walked towards the kitchen with the tab in one hand and the mobile in the other flashing light , as I moved towards the kitchen. After the refreshing water I drank from the sink this morning, I felt like drinking it once more while I also thought of washing my face with the herbs infused water.

Once I reached the kitchen I placed the tab on the charging counter to charge it . Once the tab was sufficiently charged I removed the tab and placed it on the kitchen counter. I did not bother to turn of the platform. After drinking the medicinal herb infused water I felt energy gushing inside me. Was this something to do with the soul energy Ethan spoke about.

Once after I came back to the room I searched for the light pattern. I had a vague idea where it may be as I had seen him going to that corner of the room to turn on the lights. I finally managed to find it and turned it on . I reduced its brightness with the intensity pattern drawn right next to it. The next time around I decided to do it on my phone. But it was always good to keep a tab of everything. I carefully looked at the wall to see if there were any more patterns. I could see a few more which were scattered around the wall. I planned to come back to it later.

I then moved towards the cot and saw the Ricama roots lying on the floor. I slowly gave a push with my feet to shove it under a dark corner of the cot. I had planned to take it with me and stock more of it when Ethan gets it next time. But until I found a way to carry it safely without having to directly touch it along with me I let it stay there.

Once seated on the cot i turned on the tab. I planned to look at Yin Yan ritual. Before I did that, I thought of checking it's vibe. I sensed something is not right by just by the name of the ritual. Why was Ethan repeatedly suggesting it to me. Somehow my conscious stopped me from looking into that ritual at the moment.

I pulled my phone outside , opened the note app and scribbled Yin Yan on it. Invoking the gods and my master's blessings I drew the master and energy symbol on my right palm and started moving my hand over the scribbled note. The energy reflected from that name was intense with negative energy, that my palms started burning.

" Ouch"

I quickly removed my hands and stopped the energy flow. My intuition was right and with the way Ethan had behaved sneaky with me I knew I was missing something and had to connect the dots.

The tab had not turned off this time as it was less than two mins I had hopped on to my phone. Now that I had used the search few times already, I quickly gave the required commands to reach the search window.

I uttered "Options to increase energy and protection level" and when the results finally flashed, there were hosts of methods categorised into simple , medium and complex. The Yin Yan method was categorised into complex.

"Why would anyone suggest a complex method when there were simple and medium methods? "

They say curiosity killed the cat. Although one part of me said not to look into the details of the ritual while the other part, that is the curiosity wanted to just have a peek. There was a battle between two thought processes.

"May be the energy level and protection level will increase at a phenomenal rate using the Yin Yan ritual or may be it also has options to increase the soul energy. Or may be I can find out what was Ethan upto or is there any risk? "

My mind was wandering like crazy.

"Or may be I should look at other details related or associated with this ritual before I actually go through it ?"

The last thought made more sense. If these details did indicate something which I may not like , I could skip the entire Yin Yan ritual and look for any other alternate process.

Finally I made up my mind to look at the other details surrounding this ritual.

My thoughts seems to have taken quite a bit of time as the tab had switched off. This was really getting on my nerves. Any sane person would go crazy one day, giving so many commands just to get to the search window.

I would have to perform lot of searches in the future and I could not afford to loose my cool because of this. So I put the thought of searching for the Yin Yan ritual aside to quickly look for short cut for getting to search window. After taking the usual regular long path to get to the search window , I gave the command "Shortest way to search window"

And the results flashed on the screen.

"Give the command "Search" thrice after turning on the Webopedia.

I was like "Is this true? Am I seeing a joke? Why did I have to struggle so much all these days?" Some god must have been passing by leaving a gift to me. This was the exact emotion I was feeling while I finally found the shortcut to the search window.

I felt like blaming my own self for not thinking about it all these days. Every single minute saved was precious. This simple method would save me so much time without loosing my cool.

Now that I learnt it I immediately wanted to try it out and therefore let the tab turn off on its own. Once the screen turned off I turned it on again and uttered "Search" "Search" "Search". And the Search window popped up like magic. I was extremely happy seeing it, like a lost child seeing it's mother.

"How I wish I could carry this tab with me. This tab seemed to solve all my problems"

I don't know what thoughts Ethan had in his mind while giving this tab to me, but I am sure he will have never know that I have reached this far. A faint smile appeared on my face.

Authors note: I made this chapter as a launch pad to the next chapter ;)

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