She doesn't recognise that tree.
She's been here before, she's not that far from the estate, this isn't some unknown place. She must've taken a wrong turn, of course, but where? She should probably just try to retrace her steps, Jaol will be incredibly mad at her...
No see she's not asking it's hers and it'll do whatever the duck she wants it to.
Changing emotions seem to change the resonance of her chakra, but not much, and not towards Tetsuma's.
"Maybe trying to sync our breathing and heartbeats would help?" Tetsuma suggests.
Breathing's pretty easy, and helps a lot. It's not intuitively obvious how to sync their heartbeats.
When has something like that ever stopped Dayo?
(Never, is the answer. It never has.)
Trying harder doesn't seem to particularly help in this case. Might even harm things, if Dayo's heart rate goes up from frustration; Tetsuma's is beating fairly slow.
"You might have more success with trying while meditating - that's how I learned to control mine - though moving meditation won't help as much with this."
"Yeah. Natural rhythms are annoyingly hard to control, though. I can try to walk you through the visualization exercise I did?"
So Tetsuma does. It involves concentrating solely on your measured breathing and heart rate until they fill your senses, then visualizing yourself falling deeper into the meditation and imagining another sound at the same pace as your heartbeat; Tetsuma uses the clacking of a deer chaser fountain. (You can also visualize your heart physically beating, if that's easier.) Then slightly change the thing you're visualizing to be slower, and if you're deep enough in the meditation your heart should slow down, too. It's easier to do this within normal human ranges of heart rates.
This'll take a while to get down, but she can make some progress. Her chakra resonance is definitely changing some with her heartbeat, too.
And are there any other ideas for things they could do to study that jewel?
Hmm... There's medical jutsu that can do basic diagnostics on a chakra network? Tetsuma has no idea if they'll work on the jewel, but they're certainly an option.
So Tetsuma can explain the basics of medical ninjutsu, and how to run a diagnostic. Most techniques require putting your chakra into the patient's system, but you can also check noninvasively if you're practiced at sensing.
And they can keep iterating through ideas and practising until Tetsuma's clone reaches Reim.
She lets Dayo know when her clone gets close, and settles down to relay Dayo's questions to Reim and Reim's answers back to Dayo.
When her clone gets there - "Reim?"
"We found the jewel, but we have some questions about the situation - and the jewel itself - we didn't know to ask earlier."
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