Update 23
"A-Alright, I think I understand..."
I assume we're being given wounded plants to "heal?" Try using my Sa Re to pull out the genetics, but only enough to hook them into the Kahigan... which I assume I'll be able to find by looking for something that isn't body and isn't soul, but is touching both.
You feel your way around inside the flower (however disorienting it is, for there to be a literal pocket dimension
inside the flower itself) and sure enough, because Kahigan collide with Kahigan, you feel the one linking the soul to the body. You notice that the genetics are actually located as a bud on a branch of this Kahigan, with the 'start' block of the its gene weakly attached to a second tip of the Kahigan that merges into the main trunk. There's a further branch of the Kahigan that heads even deeper.
Still, it's already technically connected. The gene, that is. It looks like what you have to do is a modification of the current setup, in order to bring more energy to the wounded part of the plan. Your instructions sheet defines several blocks of a flower's genetics, starting (in order) with roots, then leaves, then stem, then flower. The flower itself is the damaged part--missing half its petals.
Can I feel my own genetics? No touching or changing anything, just observing.
You loop your Me around and plunge it into your heart, taking care not to disturb anything. You eventually notice that one of your Kahigan is currently connected to your soul and linked to your body around the location of the heart. Trying to move this Kahigan results in a force that counteracts your attempt. It seems one of your Kahigan is rooted to your body right now.
"But a further distinction is the degeneracy of plant souls. They lack thoughts, and because of this, the total amount of soul energy they can muster is almost none. Their souls are small, so small that they often don't even contain their own genetics. For animals with thoughts, the genetics are located inside the soul itself, so there's some resistance. But you can pull the genetics out all the same."Following that advice, you look deeper, inside your soul itself, which you feel as a spherical orb with a not-quite-defined surface. It's about the size of a human head, and you feel a warmth even with your otherwise non temperature-sensitive Me. Eventually, you find coils upon coils of bead-like structures, far more than you'd find in a plant. They seem to be wrapped around some kind of central nucleus in a distinctive weave.
(Is the Jetsha from last post still active)
Use the jet to carve a C into the block of wood.
(It is throttled by your Sha. You can decide when to cut it off. It's not a fixed duration or anything.
I'll get into where the energy for spells come from later...)
[-] Everything goes better than expected... the jet of flame was so much that it ripped the face of the block to shreds, leaving a charred husk of carbon with a vaguely-carved letter on the front. It's not
visibly on fire, but certainly too hot to touch. But it fits the project description!
Damn.
Heat the metal up even more, then sculpt it with my Go. Create a wicked-ass blade and stop heating when it is tempered.
Glass is stupid anyways.
The Go proves a useful implement for handling hot metal, but as hot metal is still rather solid, it's not quite as simple as pottery or clayworking. You apply pressure and bend it into a certain shape, but your Go is not well-trained enough to deliver hammer-blows or apply precision strength.
"So magic pulls from its surroundings."
"After a fashion... actually--and this is a deeper subject, so be warned--magic draws on the energy of human beings themselves. When a human perceives an object, he conjures an image in his mind. That image contains a certain amount of energy, directed toward the composition of that object...
The reason that being in a forest allows one to conjure life, for example, is because nearby humans tend to have already generated the necessary thought-energy. They've created the elements in their minds. So while many spells work as a direct means of applying energy to existing objects, it is still possible to produce Water, for example, from your Kahigan."