Although he’s being knocked around by the continued assault, Wil manages to hold his ground.  He can feel himself weakening under the strain of fighting the creature, and his limbs are starting to go numb.<br/><br/>He blinks and looks around in surprise when he starts to see strange lights in the otherwise pitch-black interior of the creature.  At first Wil thought they might be hallucinations, brought on by exhaustion, but when they shift into ghostly scenes playing out before him, he realizes that what he is seeing is real.  He feels a strange tugging at his subconscious, as if the creature were trying to siphon off it as well as his body.  Wil begins to see his own memories replaying in a similar fashion, involuntarily, and he comes to the conclusion that as the creature is draining power from him, their minds have somehow touched and are beginning to exchange information.<br/><br/>Wil, as a child, standing in front of an older man wearing a robe.  Wil holds a wooden practice sword, nicked and dented from use.  The two are sparring, moving back and forth inside a circle about fifteen feet across.<br/><br/>Wil is momentarily overcome by the memories from his youth, but his nostalgia disappears when he realizes what could follow.  Not all of his memories were ones he wished to see, and he had no idea what would happen if the creature should stumble onto some of the more…sensitive areas in his past.