<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/b/b8/A43d65ef1cd1a55e821c356acfcd2f5f.jpg)<br/><div align="center"><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">Tian Lei / Luke</div><div class="spoiler_body"><strong>&lt;Origin Path&gt;</strong>: Suburbia, +2 dice unused<br/><strong>&lt;Role Path&gt;</strong>: Modern Day Xia, +2 dice unused<br/><strong>&lt;Pantheon Path&gt;</strong>: Righteous Devil Sage, +2 dice unused<br/><br/>[ ] Bruised <br/>[ ] Bruised<br/>[ ] Injured<br/>[ ] Maimed<br/>[ ] Taken Out<br/></div></div></div></div><strong>Location:</strong>Gil's rubble<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong>Any<br/><br/>Luke gave Kimo a bow in return for his thanks. "I'd prefer not to have to kill if I don't have to," he replied. "Besides," he gave a small grin, "I made a certain someone a promise that I wouldn't unless I was left with no choice in the matter." His hand rose as he spoke, leaving the index finger pointed at the sky.<br/><br/>"Today has certainly been interesting," Luke replied to him, his natural talent for understatement coming to the fore. "I for one could use a chance to sit down and relax and try to come to terms with everything, but I can do that once the adrenalin wears off."<br/><br/>He listened to Kimo and bowed again as he accepted to glowing gem, dropping it into a pocket. They could figure out later who could hold onto it.<br/><br/>"Yeah, getting Hitomi to the doc sounds a good idea to me," he said, nodding. "Can I ask though, what's kava?" Hitomi definitely looked out of it, so he figured it was probably some kind of drug that Gilbert had slipped her.<br/><br/>His eyes narrowed in thought as he remembered something his old Master had once told him.<em>Nothing stays the same forever, and everything eventually changes into something else. Qi .. the universal force .. flows and changes according to the principles of Yang and Yin, as well as the Five Elements of Fire, Earth, Metal, Water and Wood, and the trigrams and hexagrams of the I Ching. One who masters these principles of change can transform anything into anything.</em><br/><br/>Could he call on the powers he had been granted and change Hitomi? Transform whatever currently had her in her dazed state into something harmless? And how would he even begin to do something like that? Maybe he could pray to Chang'e for guidance for something like that. Dad was famous for his transformations, but not his knowledge of internal alchemy.<br/><br/>From the depths of his mind came a voice, which sounded suspiciously like his fathers.<br/><br/><em>Use the Force, Luke</em><br/><br/>He burst out laughing. He really couldn't help himself, and waved away any concerned looks from the others. He wasn't entirely sure if that really had been his father giving advice, or his own second thoughts offering something from his subconscious, but either way, he knew what it meant. Trust his instincts. And if things did go bad, speed dial a prayer to Chang'e to get his butt out of trouble maybe.<br/><br/>He stepped up to Hitomi and took her hands, closing them around his staff which he planted between the two of them. His eyes fixed on hers and he let his breathing fall into sync with hers. His eyes closed and he drew on his Qi, letting it ebb and flow through the channels of his body. He could feel Hitomi's .. muted somehow .. as if he was seeing her through a fog. The sense of her Yin energy was sluggish, constrained by whatever it was that was affecting her. Part of him wanted to simply smash it aside with his Yang, but he was still feeling his way into his new gifts. Instead he drew on it his energy, focused it like a laser and gently poured it into her crown chakra, seeing it with his minds eye flowing outwards in a golden tide that suffused her body and burned away what sought to chain her.<br/><br/><em>The third eye. The throat. The heart.</em><br/><br/>One by one he fed his energy into her, seeing it spread with his minds eye.<br/><br/><em>Solar plexus. Sacral chakra. </em><br/><br/>He could feel the sweat beading on his brow as his body temperature rose, a natural result of channelling the forces that underpinned the entire universe. He concentrated on keeping his breathing steady, pouring his energy into her, transforming that which did not belong and rendering it harmless.<br/><br/><em>The root chakra.</em><br/><br/>He could feel her own body responding now as his energy filled every fibre of her being, drawing her back to herself once more. He could feel her pulse echoing in time with his own, her breath one with his.<br/><br/>It felt like a dam breaking, the last of the kava burned away by his will and Qi, and for a moment he staggered as he felt<em>her</em>. Only a moment though, and gone, the link between them fading away as his energy released her and he blinked as he looked into her eyes again.