He took his apprentice up to the top of the tower. The chill of the early morning hour was nothing compared to the chill that emanated from his form. He stood behind the girl. He had blind folded her. Before his apprentice stood a nude slave girl, her hands tied behind her. A chain wrapped around her waist to hold her in place. She was shivering, but not because of the wind, or because of his chill. She had betrayed him, and would now be made an example of as well as a training tool.
He stepped closer to his apprentice. ?Feel the ebb and flow of the Force. Sense the life energy of everything, of everyone around here. The girls in the tower, me, the citizens in the city.? He said quietly. ?But move beyond the simplicity of their life force. Use the essence to establish what they look like, feel like. Take their surface thoughts from them. Now, focus on the girl in front of you. Hear her heartbeat within your ears.?
His young apprentice was tilting her head as she was finding a new way to sense the life around her. There was a strain in her muscles as she stretched forth her mind into a new way of ?seeing?. There was a small relaxation within her body as she found the target he described to her. He could see within her own minds eye as her mind was so open now to new possibilities. He smirked as he rested a hand upon her shoulder, closing his own eyes.
?As the energy flows through the girl, as her life beats in her heart, see the flow of her blood as it passes into muscles, into organs.? He guides her thoughts through the images. ?Find the core of her body?Her bone structure.? Leading her again, he directs her to the femur bone. ?Through this, you will be able paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs.? To demonstrate this, he began to apply the pressure so that he could show her how to do it as well. The bone instantly shattered under the applied pressure.
The slave girl dropped; a cry of pure terror and pain escaped her lungs. ?I have showed you this, that you may stop her heart. Terminate her life. She is no further use to you.?
The apprentice was learning, and quickly. It didn?t take long to find her heart, take grasp of it. The apprentice could almost feel it in her hand as she began to make a fist. As she did, the slave girl began to curl into a ball. The cry of pain reached out farther, finding the apprentice even in her mind?s eye.
?Kill her, my apprentice. The power is in your control, you are moving beyond your original teachings, and you have surpassed your previous master.?
He could feel the muscle in her shoulder tense, as the fist grew tighter. The girl continued to scream out in a primal voice, nearly raw. Until the girl cried out once more, and was gone. His apprentice had tightened her fist so much; her own nails had pierced her flesh. Small droplets of blood fell, smashing the ground.
He released her shoulder, his hand pulling behind him once more.
He stepped closer to his apprentice. ?Feel the ebb and flow of the Force. Sense the life energy of everything, of everyone around here. The girls in the tower, me, the citizens in the city.? He said quietly. ?But move beyond the simplicity of their life force. Use the essence to establish what they look like, feel like. Take their surface thoughts from them. Now, focus on the girl in front of you. Hear her heartbeat within your ears.?
His young apprentice was tilting her head as she was finding a new way to sense the life around her. There was a strain in her muscles as she stretched forth her mind into a new way of ?seeing?. There was a small relaxation within her body as she found the target he described to her. He could see within her own minds eye as her mind was so open now to new possibilities. He smirked as he rested a hand upon her shoulder, closing his own eyes.
?As the energy flows through the girl, as her life beats in her heart, see the flow of her blood as it passes into muscles, into organs.? He guides her thoughts through the images. ?Find the core of her body?Her bone structure.? Leading her again, he directs her to the femur bone. ?Through this, you will be able paralyze nerves, shatter bones, set fires, suffocate an enemy or burst his organs.? To demonstrate this, he began to apply the pressure so that he could show her how to do it as well. The bone instantly shattered under the applied pressure.
The slave girl dropped; a cry of pure terror and pain escaped her lungs. ?I have showed you this, that you may stop her heart. Terminate her life. She is no further use to you.?
The apprentice was learning, and quickly. It didn?t take long to find her heart, take grasp of it. The apprentice could almost feel it in her hand as she began to make a fist. As she did, the slave girl began to curl into a ball. The cry of pain reached out farther, finding the apprentice even in her mind?s eye.
?Kill her, my apprentice. The power is in your control, you are moving beyond your original teachings, and you have surpassed your previous master.?
He could feel the muscle in her shoulder tense, as the fist grew tighter. The girl continued to scream out in a primal voice, nearly raw. Until the girl cried out once more, and was gone. His apprentice had tightened her fist so much; her own nails had pierced her flesh. Small droplets of blood fell, smashing the ground.
He released her shoulder, his hand pulling behind him once more.