It was in a way anti-climatic. It was not as spectacular a spell as I expected. If I would compare it, it was like the case when the ghost tried to take control of me when I was inside the carriage to rescue Thiara. Maybe it was spectacular for the others. She dissolved somehow in the air into some kind of smoke, or fog, or was it ghost-form?

The smoke enveloped me, and suddenly everything was covered in a gray matter. I felt again a terrible pain in my head and lost control of my limbs. As that happened, I almost fell, but somehow my body did automatically recover. I was standing on my feet through some kind of instinct? The pain in my head continued. She did not warn me that it will pain so much! It was a slow and continuous pain as if somebody would be pushing slowly a knife into the back of my head. Hey, was it not so that I should not feel so much pain? Or was Cala suffering that much more?

I made timidly a couple of steps and moved my hands, but it was not me doing that. Then I was again dizzy.

“It is done!”

I heard that voice in my head.

“Whoa! What happened?”

The Lynx looked askew at me. All were looking at me unsure of what to answer.

“Ahm. Did you not just incorporated White Flower into you?”

It was Spartacius who spoke. Tina answered:

“Shh Sparty, she knows that... I think she is speaking to her!”

I looked at her and nodded:

“Indeed!”

I saw something on my leg. The part of the leg that came out under the robe. I asked pointing at my leg:

“What's that?”

“You can speak to me in your mind too. That is the entry point. It goes all up to your neck. You cannot see all of it now due to the robe.”

“Ow. It seems my fairy comes with a tattoo!”

I sighed.

Spartacius grinned:

“It is not bad looking.”

“I could hide it if you want. Should I hide your scars and the tattoo?”

“Yes please!”

It was the first time I answered in my mind. It worked. Spartacius asked again:

“How do you feel? Anything different?”

Alice watched me with Argus's eyes:

“Are you feeling ok?”

I nodded.

“Yes, I do feel ok. Actually, I do feel great!”

“That is because more magic is running now through your body. If you want that I do something, you need to let me lead.”

“Let you lead? How?”

“It is like stepping back from the steering wheel. You need to feel it. Saying: you are in lead, or you take the lead can help.”

“You take the lead!”

“You don't need to say it aloud. Saying it in your mind is good enough.”

I was no longer in control. She made a couple of movements at first slowly, hesitatingly, then faster, more precise. She took a deep breath, and I felt my lungs filling with air. It was a strange, fascinating and a little scary experience to feel myself moving like this, without being in control.

She made a gesture, and a mirror appeared in the air. I saw myself there: a scarred Cala dressed in a pink robe. She made another gesture, and all my scars disappeared instantly. Another gesture and I was Terri.

She giggled. Another gesture and I was a... a succubus? She laughed loudly.

“I just picked this from your imagination Dolores. So what would you like to look like?”

She had said that aloud. The Lynx looked askew at me whilst Alice laughed.

“Wow, stay like this!”

Spartacius seemed to be enthusiastically convinced that this was the best I could look like.

Tina shook her head:

“Don't listen to Sparty, Cala is looking better!”

After that, I enjoyed several minutes of the show.

We enjoyed it, it was not only me enjoying it. She could do anything we requested. Once she made me look like Alice, next I was Tina. She then made me look like a dragon, then like Spartacius, which got me booed by Tina.

It was really amazing to see what skills White Flower had and what she could spell. It was like an intermezzo, like a time-out that the referee granted us. Not even the annoying alien noises coming from outside the grotto did disturb us, but at a moment the Lynx raised his ears.

He turned his head towards the insides of the cavern and spoke to us:

“Shhht. I think I hear something!”

We went silent whilst he stayed concentrated, listening.

“Yes, somebody is approaching us.”

As White Flower was still in lead, I had the opportunity to see how she was listening. It was some spell improved listening, and I heard them too. The Lynx gave us more details now:

“Two large persons, really big, and one... easy footer. Could be a caster of some kind.”

White Flower confirmed:

“Yes, I can hear them too. I guess those two are trolls..”

“Trolls?”

Spartacius and Tina watched me with round eyes. Alice was worried too. The last time when we fought one troll, we had to break and run out. Now we were facing two.

White Flower shook her head.

“It is not only the trolls that worry me. That easy footer... I can smell ice...”

I felt how she was recalling her aura. She was trying to mask her presence. The Lynx confirmed:

“Yes, an ice mage. A powerful one.”

Alice watched me worried.

“I do not feel them yet. How far are they?”

“Around 200 meters. Coming this way.”

Tina looked towards the cavern's entry.

“What do we do?”