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[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

[It had been hard enough trying to meditate with everything that had been going on in the past month or so... and then the journal constantly flipping open to the sounds of children and exasperated parents. Now that the children were gone Flynn decided to give it another shot.

Then his hand started twitching.

So he clasped his hands together, took a deep breath and relaxed...

and his cheek started twitching.

Oh you have GOT to be kidding. He opens his eyes, looking out the window at the trees and sighing.]

That's just a low blow, man.

[Glancing over, he sees his journal open on the nearby dresser. Shaking his head he dictates]

The idea behind losing something isn't a new one. It teaches us to be less reliant on certain objects or abilities. To reach beyond and find deeper strength within ourselves to compensate. But I have to wonder about the reasoning behind the things this place chooses to take from us.

Comments

[perfectisnteasy]

Why, what's goin' on?

[he still hasn't figured out what he's lost. mostly because touching computers is still a little weird]

[both_neither]

Found out your loss, huh?

[sixguns]

I'm not sure what the logic is, either. Perhaps t'make us stronger.

[That doesn't explain his own loss, not really.]

Flynn

[is0latedthinker]

You figured it out?

Alan

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

[He sighs]

Unless you can think of some other reason why I suddenly can't meditate.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

I suddenly find myself unable to meditate.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

So it seems. I have to say I wasn't expecting this one. Of course... I guess it's a bit difficult to expect anything, here.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

That's my thought as well. Of course discovering how we're supposed to become stronger with some of the losses I've heard about is beyond me.

[both_neither]

[A small, dry laugh] That's for sure.

But you're right, about what you said. You just gotta...try to find a way around it. Make up for it another way. Because it's not going to get better.

[sixguns]

If it doesn't, what use are they?

Take th' positive from it, else you'll make yerself miserable.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

Oh I'm sure I will. I've managed to adapt to worse. I just find it intriguing that this place finds the need to take something from each person with no real rhyme or reason as to what.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

Oh I've got a great deal to be thankful for being here. I'm not going to let something as simple as this negate all of that.

Flynn

[is0latedthinker]

I don't think that's likely. [His tone is apologetic.]

[perfectisnteasy]

What, that thing where you sit and don't do anything? ... [the one he never saw the point in?]

[sixguns]

Aye. I've more than I'd ever imagined here.

Might I ask what brought ye to these thoughts?

[both_neither]

I don't know about that. There seems to be a reason. I mean...whatever it took was important to you, right?

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

It's amazing how productive doing nothing can be, at times. That's a rather simplistic explanation of meditation but, yes.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

In a manner of speaking, yes. Although it wouldn't be too difficult to learn to live without it.

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

Oh I think I've figured out what the castle has deigned important enough to take from me.

Alan

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

Yeah that's what thought. [He sighs] Well it could be far worse. Of everything it could have taken this is something I can certainly learn to cope with.

[both_neither]

Can I ask what you were trying to do?

[messin_with_my_zen_thing]

I was knocking on the sky and listening to the sound.

[both_neither]

Yeah? What sound does the sky make?

[sixguns]

Sorry t'hear that. Th' place is a right bastard for it, though.

[Noah's first thought is that the man had family here and they'd been taken back to where they'd come from. It's his own fear projected back. He bites his lip from asking.]

[perfectisnteasy]

How can doing nothing be productive?

Flynn.

This place is making you lose your logic.