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"Only during training periods yes. You have seen our meditation orb have you not?" Yawgmoth questioned. He was speaking of the great black ball that often floated several feet above the ground and just seemed to stay there emitting a dark aura and feel around it. The orb always contained Yawgmoth in a meditative state and this was most often how he trained himself in secrecy so what he did inside the orb was never known. He could not recall if Ziven had stumbled upon him in this state or not. He could have sworn she had at least once.

"Foolery to us. The practical use of meditation is to train one's mind. To be focused. If 'clear' and free of random thought is what you consider focused then so be it. We have never heard of anyone using it to connect with life forms. We have only seen and practiced its use as a way of mental discipline. The powers of magic run through the mind, without a strong one magic is weak. Our style of meditation practices this control over mana by maintaining that orb for one and by doing a few other things which we would rather not go into detail about inside the orb once it is sustained." Yawgmoth explained. He thought the very idea of using meditation to connect with anyone or anything else a very stupid idea. Yawgmoth thought of it as something of an escape from living things, a means of being solitary and focused.

Yawgmoth shook his head at the last bit of her statement. "We very highly doubt you would be able to enter a state of calm and be able to connect with your opponent during a battle. While yes we agree that would be more useful than anything we can think of, it is certainly not very practical in full on combat. The time needed to pull it off seems too far fetched. And for that matter, if you did have enough time to do this. Why, instead, would you not gather the energy for some huge finale type attack that is sure to win you the day no matter what they are doing hmm?" Yawgmoth inquired. Her words also made it seem to Yawgmoth that she had been in battle before, just had not used her meditation during those battles. This could not be true, she was so weak physically. Unless her opponent was a magic user like herself to where hers was stronger Yawgmoth could not comprehend how she would make it out alive against a physical opponent.

Yawgmoth blinked for a moment and shook his head again. "You're still not getting it. Have you ever been in a life or death battle? Where the loser is killed by the winner. We are saying that in practical battles like such, concentration is hard to come by when the other person is trying to murder you. Even if you are adept at this meditation it must take some amount of energy yes? And some concentration to reach your mental state out so far yes? If so then pulling it off while in a panic adrenaline rushed state would require a considerable amount of time or a considerable break in the action to calm down and concentrate to execute such a technique. This is all we are saying when we mean it does not seem very practical in combat use." Yawgmoth explained his reasoning. Hanging on the last bit of her words Yawgmoth did not understand their meaning. "What do you mean by 'take from others' ? You are not suggesting you can steal their ability to use their techniques and abilities are you? Do elaborate."

Yawgmoth's face held a malicious grin when she started to demonstrate. He had half a mind to force whatever link she had established to rob him of his power open and send a surge of his own power through her just to see if she could handle such a force. However, she took the safe route and took barely anything meaning there was not enough of a link for him to pry open and try his devious plan. Oh well. Yawgmoth sighed and rolled his eyes at the name. If it was that idiot shapeshifting kid who had tried to offer his services to Yawgmoth before then perhaps he should just leave now to avoid the moron. But what else? there was nothing to do. If the kid remained acting like an idiot towards Yawgmoth. He could at least off him or something for amusement. "We see. Then what you call meditation is not really meditation at all. It just an advanced sight, a sixth sense, a third eye, whatever you want to call it. When you say meditation that to us translates as a calm relaxed state where one must concentrate to maintain that state. Meditate as it were. You, require no effort. So therefore it is not a form of meditation as any form of meditation requires discipline and concentration to acquire and maintain. Your choice of words mislead us." Yawgmoth explained.

Yawgmoth scoffed. "Then we were right. Increasing this range or sense or whatever is not practical in battle like we said right off. It seems however, that both of our messages have been crossed. But now, it appears we are both at an understanding." Yawgmoth finished with a yawn streching his back and returning to sitting upright in the chair he was flopped around in. His tail still laid over the right arm of the chair dangling limply. "Be a sweet girl and get us something to drink" Yawgmoth said waving his hand towards to the bar with another yawn. He said this for two reasons, one he didn't really want to get up, and two he wanted to see if she would actually listen to him.

Yawgmoth laughed, for a few reasons. One being that she was apparently as lazy as he was in not wanting to move very far and two that she actually did it for him. Yawgmoth lifted the bottle in her direction as a sign of thanks before drinking the amber liquid down lounging in his chair.