The Power. Now I know they were right. I will
never question your judgment again. If you wish to tutor your friend,
do so. And if anyone speaks ill of it, they will deal with me!"
13 Day after day Morn came to North's home. He spent long hours helping
him with his studies. Finally, the heavy math became easier for the
young Haven, but still the language troubled him.
14 Finally one day North threw aside his pencil, rose, and paced about
the room. "I read the lessons again and again," he complained, "I study
and study, but when I need the information, there's nothing there.
We'll just have to keep trying, but I feel like I'm wasting your time."
15 "My mother's people have a saying," Morn answered, "'time spent
helping a friend is never wasted, only blessed.' Sit down. There's
something I want to try. Just sit down, relax. Look into my eyes. "
North didn't understand what his friend was up to, but obeyed his
instructions.
16 Morn began to talk to him slowly and softly, making his unusual
voice even stranger. After a while he began to say something about
North's eyelids being heavy, that he was getting tired and needed to
rest. North found his eyelids drooping then, suddenly, he found them
open again, and staring at Morn. But after looking over Morn's shoulder
he saw that over fifteen minutes had passed! "What happened?" he asked,
"What did you do?"
17 "It's something my mother taught me," Morn explained with a shrug
"Her people use it to relax and rest, and sometimes to solve difficult
problems. They call it 'hypnosis'. While you were asleep," he
continued, "I asked you why you couldn't understand your language
lessons, and found that you didn't know your basics. Your primary
Teacher was very poor. While you were in the hypnotic state I repeated
the basics to you and instructed you to remember them. It should come
easier now."
18 As the boys began to work again, North found he was