[Fish Stick]

As she awoke, her teacher sat next to her having brought a tray of assorted breads, cheeses, and wine out for her. "Eat, for you will need your strength..." he instructed gently. As she was eating, he smiled, and then said, "That dream you have is yours alone, to choose to tell whomever you want, or no one at all. I'd prefer you not to tell me, for it should be a secret, as all bards are generally tought. But i think it should be your choice of whom you trust to tell the dream to..." As he finished speaking about the dream, he took a bite of bread, and poured himself some wine.

Taking a few sips, he cocked his head a bit at her, and then said, "So tell me, what do you know of Arcana, any termonology? anything you might have read before coming here? The first thing i'm going to teach you is how to Meditate and enter a state called Clara. It is in this state that you will do all of your arcanic work, and it is in this state that you should be able to produce songs that no mear minstrel would ever be able to accomplish in his lifetime. These songs will be able to give people great courage, soothe them in their times of need, or cause enemies to fall into terrible depths of despair..." After a few moments, allowing her to take in all that he said, he continued on.

"To meditate is to pull yourself away from all of your physical senses, to detach yourself from the reality of the material planes. As an Initiate, it will be quite difficult to achieve the state of mind known as Clara much less sustain it for very long. But if you manage to, you will see the world in a whole other light. There will be three main essenses that you will be working with. These are called Ara and Vis. Ara is the essense around you, the most abundant essence in the astral planes. And Vis is your essense, as well as every other living creature's essense. We shall discuss the third essense later, when it is time for that... Do you have any questions thus far?" he asked, hoping he had not given her to much to swallow, as she was most likely still weak from the unbinding...