Reading memories didn't require touching things like the "soul" or "consciousness." It only required tracing the neural pathways, which had been strengthened countless times, and re-running the electrical signals.
Murphy's Mana was his means of treading that path.
Crimson light seeped from the tips of the dragon's claws into Saladin's cranial cavity, slipping through the sutures of his skull, burrowing into the dura mater, passing through the arachnoid mater, and reaching the thin, blood-vessel-covered pia mater.
Then, the light dispersed, transforming into countless Energy tendrils as fine as hairs and nearly invisible. Each one found a neuron, attached itself to its cell membrane, and released electrical signals in its place.
Saladin's perception changed.
The sensation of being filled with warm water vanished, replaced by a dreamlike state.
