The dragon gave Las a huff, looking at the blatantly manipulative Kobold.

  [Rei] “I can’t even get mad, it’s working …”

  And that only made him more annoyed, so he tossed some more sand on her.

  Las raised her hands in surrender.

  [Las] -Alright, alright, i stop, sorry-

  She said, and the Dragon waited for all the extra information … and waited … and waited.

  [Rei] -What ?-

  And he could see Las eyes blank for some odd moments, before focusing on him again.

  [Las] -Right … First lesson, do it like this … and not like this -

  And now there it was, the extra information behind the speech, and it was simple, precise and to the point, a simple step by step that she taught Kow and Has, focus on one thing only, be extra focused on what you wanted and only that.

  The second part was just like her name at first, but with so much tangential stuff that it almost made no sense, like going into wikipedia to look for one thing and you kept on going with no end clicking on every link there was until you didn't even remember what you were looking for.

  Rei blinked, a few more grains of sand were made.

  [Rei] -Ooo … -

  Las got agreement, revelation, a new piece of information slotting into place in a puzzle, what was a puzzle, what was his question and how it compared to a puzzle, his insights on trying to answer those questions by himself …

  Las stopped the flow and shook her head.

  [Las] -You are hopeless at this … wow … Here … -

  The dragon got from Las genuine surprise, and awe at this lack of skill in something so simple as restricting the flow of his own mind, the Dragon now knew what she saw and heard in that simple ‘Ooo’ of his.

  The Dragon blinked, took a deep breath, and said.

  [Rei] -Right … -

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  Las got agreement, another revelation, a sorry and … she blinked.

  [Las]-That was way better, you learn fast …-

  The dragon listened and got … surprise, awe, a hint of fear and … no more context to any of it.

  The Dragon breathed in and out, Las could see the mental effort, hands clamping on the flow of water and wresting control of it with raw willpower and intent, she was in Awe at how BAD he was.

  [Las] “This would be comical if it wasn't so scary, his thoughts flow like a mighty river, and he is making it stop with brute force alone”

  The actual technique should be easy, the opposite should be the hard part, imparting so much information on the speech should be what requires training.

  Dream Speech was communication in the true sense, but there is a limit to how much someone can push on each word.

  Besides the Initial Intent and the information behind said Intent, the flow should stop on its own, unless the listener kept digging.

  The Dragon … Rei, his mind just didn't stop thinking, it didn't stop providing, each word came with its own encyclopedia of information behind, the listener had to Choose to ignore it, the listener had to cut the flow … that was not how it worked.

  [Las] “But it is … even outside of the Speech, I can hear and see his thoughts, his mind just doesn't stop, at least in here it doesn't stop … what ?”

  Las blinked, the dragon was in the middle of wrestling with his mind, figuring out exactly what to say when all of a sudden … silence, complete silence, it made no sense.

  So Las focused deeper … with the worst timing possible.

  [Rei] -Sorry, I zoned out, this is too hard, do I really need to ? Can't you just shove what you don't want away ? I do just that when you gave too much-

  Like a lightning striking right at her face, Las was blinded and deafened.

  The act of zoning out, the low power Mode of the brain, what low power Mode is, power, modes, arcane artifacts that use it, the difficulties of the task, each misstep, why it was a hard, the act of shoving information aside, why he knows this, a world with a little bit of everything all of the time, the ways one deal with that, the learned instinct of focusing on the important stuff and disregarding the rest, the act of a brain constantly overstimulated, thoughts in constant flow, explanation for how exhaustive is to stop, reason to zone out, studies of other Scholars, what Rei knows of the mind, the Dream Land, his change of perception, how it made more sense, Outer Space, Space, Cosmology, Space Time, theories of Reality …

  Rei saw Las's eyes roll back on her head, her nose bleeding, and the anchor pulling both her and him back to the waking world.

  [Rei] -Fuck … fuck fuck fuck fuck …-

  The dragon blinked, a very big and very concerned kobold embracing the Female one, and a Arrow Right on the dragon's Eye.

  [Rei] “That's not good”

  [Has] -Kow' ?esu kun ?i, amato diris, ke ?i faris interkonsenton, Rei estas nia amiko nun, vi ne pafu amikojn ekster trejnado.-

  The big one appeared to be scolding the Hunter one.

  [Kow] -Kiel vi scias, ke tio ne estas ia ruzo? li povus trompi nin.-

  Yeah, the Hunter one did not like what happened, that one is the cautious one.

  [Has] -Kow, amato jam veki?as, faligu la pafarkon. -

  I have no idea what that was.

  [Kow] -Bone…-

  He agreed to something he didn't like … he is putting the arrow away, alright, that was close.

  The Dragon now could see the Female one setting up with a startled look, her eyes were bloodshot, but she looked at everyone and was smiling, a quick Kiss on the Big Ones and … she was doing something with the Mana, she was … connecting everyone ?

  The Leader voiced obvious disagreement, but he was quickly shut down by a simple look of the Female, he wiped, but you don't mess with the White Mage, that's for sure.

  Mana snapped into place, the dragon accepted it like he did before, only this time, he didn't go to the Dream Land.

  [Rei] “Did it fail now ? … that knockout must have messed her up, what the hell happened ?”

  Unexpected by the dragon, there were now Three other voices in there besides his own.

  [Las] “What happened was you punching me In the brain with a Mountain of knowledge just as I was focusing on you”

  [Rei] “Sorry ? … But how is it that now I'm not getting all that extra context ?”

  [Las] “That was Dream Speech, this is a imitation of it, so we can communicate Intent as words”

  [Rei] “That's Neat, so … How about the others ?”

  [Has] “Hello friend Rei, i'm Has”

  [Kow] “Kow the Bold is the name, don't wear it out”

  [Las, Has] “Be nice”

  [Kow] “Just Kow for friends …”

  [Las] “And ?”

  [Kow] “Sorry about the whole … hunting you deal, we messed that up”

  The dragon thought they were all really cute.

  [Rei] “Water under the bridge, what are friends for ?”

  Rei saw Kow give him a confused look.

  [Rei] “Right, no context behind what I think here … Just … forget about it, we good, all is well want it ends well, we are friends now so how about a barbecue ? I could eat”

  [Has] “I vote Yes to eat … what's a Barbecue ?”

  The sound of a Slap to the forehead rang out in the cave and the Dragon knew he would have fun times ahead.