“You are different, Mr Asano. Before you and I ever met, Mr Remore and Miss Hurin set you on a path towards a certain state of mind. It exists somewhere between concentration and meditation; it is a paradoxically simultaneous state of empty mind and full attentiveness. It is a state that only essence users who have surpassed the limitation of the physical brain can enter, although many never do. It has many names across the cosmos; in Miss Hurin’s world, it is called the battle trance.”
