by Melpomene » Tue Jul 26, 2016 9:14 pm
"Mmm," Mel smiled. "We'll make an expert out of you yet."
She walked over to the well and knocked on it three times.
"The first thing we need to do is get it's psyche in here. You do this when you work on a normal person, though you may not realize it--when you convince someone to look the other way or to forget that you were somewhere, you're altering their actual mental state. What you were trying to do here was create an entirely new mental state from scratch, and I'm not even sure I could do that very well, and you know how skilled I can be, darling."
"Now, you called this well a place for raw material, but that's not all it is. It's your connection directly to the heart of Will. For most people, that's potentially dangerous--if you mess around too much, you might break it. But, again Will's not really a person, so the rules don't apply. It's modeling clay, and, like silly putty and news print, we can just take a piece and have it absorb anything we want. If you grab a piece of someone else's psyche, you're breaking it beyond repair. If you grab a piece of Will, it reflects the whole, without hurting the whole."
She reached in, and pulled. She had, by the hair, Will, who seemed to be...unconscious was the wrong word. Frozen? Stuck? Motionless? Something like that.