"Rrrgh..."
As Hognara let out a pained groan, Danyla abruptly withdrew from her dreamwalking state.
During her last visit to the Kingswood, Danyla had gained a deeper understanding of the Greensight of the Children of the Forest and wargs through that ancient weirwood and the Silver Vines.
In truth, Greensight and House Targaryen's dreamwalker gift led to the same destination by different paths. Both relied on powerful magical conduits to glimpse fragments within the mists of time and space.
Without a powerful magical conduit like a weirwood to assist them, they could still enter the mists of time and space by expending their own mental strength and magical energy, but the strain on their minds was far greater.
Not only would they suffer splitting headaches and become dazed, but the scenes they saw would also be blurred and indistinct.
So Danyla began trying to enter a dreamwalking state with a dragon as her conduit. After all, dragons were powerful magical creatures, just like weirwoods.
Moreover, bringing a dragon with a mind of her own into a dreamwalking state allowed her to reach much farther afield. However, this placed an immense strain on the dragon's mind, so it could not be sustained for long.
Danyla trained painstakingly for two or three months in Summerhall's newly built Godswood before she could ride Hognara across the Narrow Sea in a dreamwalking state and reach Essos.
Yet the moment they entered Essos, the drain on their mental strength increased sharply. A surge of bitterly cold energy from the north and a surge of scorching energy from the south swept toward them, filling the sky.
Fortunately, Hognara's unusual bloodline allowed her to command both cold and hot magical energy. She managed to fend off both surges, then frantically draw them into her body.
But this