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Your gaze falls on the stud to this third window's shutter. You can see no latch nor catch - we you to take this little knob in hand, you see no reason why you couldn't ease the window open. But that is not to say that you don't <span class="mu-i">hear</span> a reason why you <span class="mu-i">shouldn't</span>. As if in response to your attention, wooden grinding groans mill their way through the stale air of the cabin, near imperceptibly warmed by the labors of the glassed-lamp affixed above. The final rebuke from the timber is loud enough that you imagine you can actually feel it through your foot-wraps, then silence surges around you once more, leaving you with naught but your thoughts and your fears. Quite clearly, something just caught the attention of the driver, presumably - <span class="mu-i">hopefully</span> - Nasturtium. You are quite keen to know whatever it is, but if the driver has just become more alert ... oh, Maker's Mercy, can you trust yourself not to bungle this up? Well ... it might be that you don't need to mess with the stupid shutter. After all, you are only now seeing this window, and from a rather disadvantaged angle besides. For all you know, once you get up close you might just be able to see clean through it! Of course, that would entail getting up close, wouldn't it ...
A good long stride and a lean, and you would be there. Not for the first time - nor for the last, you are certain - you wish you knew Soft-Projection casts. Presumably, you are not in any state to be using them, considering that you cannot even Reach properly at the moment, but ... if you were, if you knew, then you could just curl yourself up safely, turn your gaze towards the Realm of Forms and learn everything all at once. Supposedly. You really aren't clear on how it works. While your attempts at Reaching have been moderate successes ... or at least, when the sum is taken as a whole, both of your attempts at Projection - unaided, unknown, and wholly unacceptable to father - were quite nearly fatal. You had been contemplating making a third, but then you finally managed to convince him to teach you about the Mysteries. So you stopped trying to make sense of it yourself - a real knot of a prospect, especially at your skill level - figuring that before long, he'd be teaching you how himself. Not to mention that if he caught you trying something like that, he'd never teach you anything else ever again; he might never even speak of the Many Mysteries in front of you any more. Of course, it cannot be gainsaid what effect the prospect of death, dismemberment, or dangerous Estrangement had on the decision as well.
