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// 8. Two Step Forwards 
// Story: I Felt, Therefore I Was 
// by Cynical 
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The Journal of Twilight Sparkle – 22nd November 1007

Today marks the day in which I have taken a great leap forwards in the field of psychomagic. The spell performed merely two hours earlier upon myself is still in effect and should be wearing off some time at the end of this entry. As a first draft, it was surprisingly effective and has induced the correct state of happiness in myself, however the amount of focus it took to create and execute the spell is somewhat worrying.

Even though I managed it, this is proof enough that another who might be lacking in such focus might not, causing the spell to fail and backfire, possibly catastrophically. This is going to have to be safeguarded somehow, yet until I know the actual effects of a backfire, I cannot create the correct guard to shield the caster. Sadly, the conclusion from this is clear in that I shall have to induce one.

How I am going to physically and mentally force myself to do this is another matter. The problem is that I might not be able to break my focus on my own due to my lack of knowledge about what could happen afterwards. I can make a guess as to what the effects will be on the other hand. Due to the small amount of energy that the caster is handling, the result will, at the very least, not be fatal. However, since the location of this energy is inside the brain…

There are a lot of places that even a minuscule amount of concentrated magical energy could do a serious amount of harm. I simply have to observe everything as I try to incur the backfire, then deal with the results afterwards. I shall attempt to perform the spell in three days in order to prepare myself for the result and to allow any residual magic to fade away from me.

As an impromptu addition, now that the spell has worn off, it has become apparent that it was a false state of happiness as the worries of the world came back and made themselves known again.

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