Chapter 55: Heading Off
They’d already have been off for a couple of hours ag, but then it had turned out that Isaac had finally been released from his duty of watching over the wreckage of the alien starship he’d wrecked. And he was available for lessons.
You know, Derek would have thought that having an [Aura] of his own would allow him to sense his brother’s.
Yeah … that hadn’t happened. And that was with Derek knowing where it was supposed to be, at least if Isaac was even remotely following the book. The book which he had written.
A diffuse web of incredibly thin overlapping strands, any given place only being around tenth [Aura], if not even less, yet still entirely saturated, spread out across hundreds of meters, with several spheres wrapped around the outside to finish it off, each too thin to provide any information about what apssed through it, yet the fact that they were layered would let him get the direction of anything that passed through them, at which point, anything that drew the eye would be more closely examined.
It was a construct more complicated than many of the computers that had existed at the time of its creation, held in place entirely effortlessly, and simultaneously so thoroughly suppressed that it might as well not be there … or it straight up did not exist, and the instructional book on [Aura] usage was largely fiction. But Derek doubted that was the case; if Isaac’s magnum opus had been filled with falsehoods and exaggerations, someone would have called him out on it by now.
By comparison, when Derek tried to let out his own [Aura], it splashed outwards with all the force of a burst balloon, quickly dispersing until it reached its natural “limit” of twenty-five meters in all directions, showing him a whole lot of spaceship, and a whole lot of nothingness outside, but when it struck his brother, it simply … went away. Oh, sure, it was relatively obvious there had been something there while he was paying attention, but Derek was pretty sure that if he hadn’t been looking at his brother, he could have easily completely missed the disturbance in the field that should have shown him everything.
“Can you teach me how to do that?” he asked.
Isaac shrugged. “Which part?”
“Being invisible to [Auras],” Derek said, causing his brother to shake his head.