Today something interesting happened with my Fate, though it did come at a personal cost to myself.

I was helping Tiddol out with some alchemy when something exploded. I just so happened to trigger my fate a moment before it blew up, after what caused the explosion happened. It just blew up in the worst way possible for me.

I haven’t not worn my armour in a very long time, having some clothes of my own making out of my own plants on me at all times has become something of a comfort thing for me. I don’t even fully remove it when I bathe, instead of turning it into a trinket of some kind on my body. The liquid that splashed around from the explosion cut me off from the armour. It didn’t physically disappear but any magic that was part of it did.

It left me feeling more naked than I have ever felt before, more alone and afraid. I have never had an anxiety attack before, but when I later described that event to Talus she said that is exactly what I experienced.

I am almost certain that Fate can make Fate easier to acquire, so why hasn’t it yet? Whatever, maybe late this summer when I will only have to sleep every couple of days I’ll be able to get something really good out of it.

Anyway, what I got out of Fate was interesting. I burned it while I was working with my Solar Energy like I usually do, when I managed to turn the Solar Energy directly into Mana. On its own this ability is incredibly inefficient and slow, in other words; completely useless. I can already turn solar energy into mana much faster by way of casting a spell.

What was really interesting was this, I can reverse the process. The reverse is even more inefficient and slow, but now that I know the basics I should be able to improve on it. At least that is the plan, no idea if it will work out in reality though.

Now I’m conflicted. I really want to work on this, a lot more than I want to create a particularly hard plant. But I need this hard plant a lot more than I need Solar Energy. Maybe I could try to split my focus? I can effectively do fourty things at the same time as long as they are all simple and repetitive, I’ve never tried to do different things with that before, but it is worth a try. I’ll see what I can do tomorrow.