Chapter 2: Meditation

Elizara moved toward the low table in her quarters and placed her meditation candle at the center of the table. She had already moved the chairs away from the table and placed a small, soft rug on the floor that she would sit on during her meditation. Zara dimmed the lights in the room and lit the candle, adjusting to make the best surroundings to aid her meditation. She then kneeled down on the rug, hands resting laxly on her legs, and stared at the candle...but she didn't just stare at the candle, she stared into the flame. She saw beneath the flame, and let the constant motion of the atoms in the flame lull her into a calm state.

Closing her eyes, she opened her mind to stars and allowed herself to drift. Ideas and thought drifted through her mind as easily as they disintegrated into the stars, no more than the dust of space. She tried not to hold onto these thoughts, but to allow them to embrace her. Her mind focused on no one subject, but flitted freely from one to the next.

In the wanderings of her mind, she saw questions and vague answers, but did not send her mind seeking details, or searching for more answers than were presented to her, nor did she ask a question of the starry void her mind was visiting.

After a time that could have been three minutes or three days, time being of no substance in the meditative void she inhabited, the mind gained knowledge of the questions that had been invading her mind at every waking hour. She now knew the best course of action, what her mind found to be the most logical analysis of herself and her mind...and could now decide how she would proceed with her everlasting exploration of her spirit.