Lumina only stayed a single day and left the next morning before dawn. Their parting was brief and drama-free, because it didn’t really feel like a good-bye. He knew he’d see her again soon. They had only enough time for one last chat about his magic where he asked her opinion on his current project of trying to brainwash himself into becoming the blade.She flatly told him that he was being silly to avoid human testing. His level of Mental Manipulation wouldn't come close to driving someone crazy as he feared, and his lack of testing meant that he might not be able to use [Say What's True] effectively when the time came that he actually needed it.Their conversation was brief, because as much as she wanted to spend time with him, she sorely needed a good meal, a bath, and a night's sleep. She had one last gift before she left, for Cid. She gave him a technique he could use with his new [Meditation] Skill to lower his own mental resistance.That evening, when the Lance were back at the dueling grounds, Brin reluctantly did his first experiment on a Lance-mate. He chose Govannon, and showed him a mirror seeded with the same spell that had driven Jake 18 out of his mind. To no one's surprise except possibly Brin's, it didn't do anything. Govannon dismissed the lie with a blink and a shake of his head, and claimed that he didn't feel much at all except a brief notion that the reflection in the mirror wasn't really his own face.He wasn't discouraged; it was actually a bit of a relief that he couldn't drive people insane with a simple glance at their own reflection. Instead, he'd come up with a few more ideas over the last few days and he was ready to put them into action.First, he put a Mirror Image of himself on top of himself, an illusion that just copied the truth. Because he cast it through his Lightmind, it took him a minute to figure out how to imbue it with Wyrd, but it was worth the time to solve the problem. The solution wasn't (...)