Meditation: Better than drugs (Leon?)

[Leon]

Leon would begin walking as well. Keeping pace is nothing else.

"Is that what you think it is? Snot, heh... Looks to me like it could be blood. A bloody past, a horrid present."

He would shrug.

"In my mindscape my power is represented originally by a tower constantly striking everything around it with Lightning. Now my older brother sits on a throne and awaits my questions. That is what we are looking for."

[Avice Locke]

"Blood? I ne'er killed no one." The sky was black and the anti-gravity streams of black. She looked at the closest stream wondering if it flowed freely or was being sucked away. She'd not say what she thought about them but she knows they felt suffocating. Pouring away into a void constantly felt like a bit of a waste.

Memories of herself filling her time with her adventures until she could no longer think of herself. All she really could wonder is what the next new thing what was the next road. She walked in and walked out unaware of how others would remember her how her lives affected them. Why should she care? Why would they care? She looked up at the black sky. There were no stars in this mindscape. That was fine, stars were not something she looked at normally. Somehow she looked up at them, kind of wanting to see them. Wanting to know the flow was not going to be wasted in an untouchable void. 

[Leon]

Leon would notice her gaze and then look up into the void as well.

"Is that it you think? The representative of your Qi?"

[Avice Locke]

"I think it is me-self." and she pointed to one of the pillars. "That is the crap I pour into my life to try and satisfy it." She starts to feel angry at it. "I know it all goes away and I have no idea what I am left with!"


"I hold onto with only what I can carry and everything else leaves!" She picked up a rock and tossed it at the black liquid. Only to have the Rock fall short and her sleeve was slack missing that hand. She gripped it knowing she was somewhat lying. It was a failed test on her part. After that she'd keep walking. Their is something coming up at the end of the road she had some kind of hope it was there and she was fully prepared to walk an eternity to find it.

[Leon]

Leon would watch silently as she explained. Only she knew her mindscape, only she could control it properly. Leon could fold it in places by force, but it would never be the same.

As she walked he would follow simply keeping up.

"You seem to know what you are looking for... Or is it a hunch? Like a feeling of inevitability..."

[Avice Locke]

"I know what it is like to stay in one place as much as I know what is red." She gripped her arm tightly as she walked. "I just know there is somethin' out there for me. I keep tellin' me-self I'll know it when I see it but I have no idea what it is. Ya know I was born of a whore who killed herself leavin' me behind and a sailor who fled. Orphanages kids come and once they go... you no longer exist no matter what friends ya be. I be a lonely kid... boo-hoo right? let me pour yar eyes out with the tragedy."

She just kept walking and talking. Somehow it was hard to stop as angry as she was growing. "The truth is I keep leavin' I can't commit to anythin'. After so much, you just can't hold onto anythin' without this weight on the mind tellin' ya... Sayin' goodbye first is easier... So I keep walkin' without a purpose. I took up the job of Runnin' because it leads me places. I like going to a crowded bar and dancin' with people I'll never learn their names to and findin' a face that I'll forget in a week when I do it again in a new place, territory, continent... whatever. No attachment and they forget all about me just like they should." She fell as she knew what happened. She lost her leg here too, she couldn't even pretend to be okay with that kind of living here. She placed her forehead to the dirt and dropped a clenched fist frustrated with it all

She looked at the inky black masses again before looking at the field... what distance they've walked looked no closer. "I can walk forever... but I'll never get anywhere if I stay like this. It would make no difference if I have limbs or not... wouldn't it?" She dragged herself to the nearest black mass. She tried looking at its viscosity flow only slightly reflecting the light that it flows. She tried to feel something in herself. She wanted to take what she learned from Eric and she just sat before the ink flow and breathed. This was her mind and she'd kept her Qi separated from herself for so long it felt like a hopeful child. The "Hope" she left behind. She'd draw from it and feel it nearby as she welcomed it in her mindscape. Eyes closed, she fell silent, unable to continue with their walking and not feeling the need to ask Leon to carry her. She'd reach out for where she thought it would be whether she was reaching for what might be her Qi or where her Qi was guiding her. She just wanted to be familiar with it thinking this was where her answers were. Feeling the cold and wet ink on her fingers it sent chills up her spine and down to her toes. Her hand wanted to jerk back, but she refused stubbornly. She didn't know what she was doing or why... but she was doing it.

Maybe it was a hunch.

[Leon]

Avice would feel the tug. There was something there. Crawling around, wanting out. Pulling at her.

[Avice Locke]

She flinched feeling something grab her, she actually let slip an ever so small noise, a squeamish whimper if that is what you'd call it. Her first instinct was to pull away and leave it, whatever was living in that could not possibly be good. She felt like there were hands on her back a whisper in her mind telling her to grab it. She wanted to be stubborn and argue but her hand never left the disgusting feeling ink like substance.

She'd grab what she felt and started to pull her one foot supported on a rock that was firmly embedded in the ground. She'd pull...

[Leon]

Leon would watch, trying to sound calming.

"If anything seems off, let me know and I can pull you out."

However, Avice would feel it was already too late for that, as she was now in a power struggle. Whatever it was, it had her and she had it. It was now pulling harder!

[Avice Locke]

"Pull me out?" The worried tone in her voice was evident. "You think it will pull me in?"

She parted her lips and let out a shout as a firm desperate jerk kept her from straightening her knee to support its weight. Maybe that answered her question.

"Oh... no, ya don't!" She was afraid of the worst, along the lines of disappearing if she was going to let it take her. "What do ya want?" She yanked back harder She reached back to grab ahold of something. With what...? A nub? She cursed as she pulled more.

[Leon]

She got the feeling it wanted her. As it pulled back just as hard.

"Why limit yourself? You have taken your limbs away. You are allowing it to do this to you. Master yourself, believe in yourself. You survived the streets, you kept going no matter what. No one else did, you haven't needed help now, why feel sorry for yourself and allow your mind to take your limbs... In here? What do you believe in?"

Leon leaned in and asked. Though he looked away and pulled a smirk across his face.

"Or do you really believe this mystical shit is more powerful than you?"

[Avice Locke]

"This is my Qi is it not?" With that logic it was made for her, born with her, it was only as strong as she was and as strong as she wanted to be. They were one in the same!

"The destination was me livin' through it! Every fuckin' painful step, when everyone thought I couldn't!" She felt herself push off with extra force and she looked only for a moment seeing her other foot was back. She spoke to the slime more than anything. "You fight me because ya think there be even the slightest chance I'll fail? Because... I thought I would too. I admit I was afraid I had failed it was the end. If it doesn't have to be then I just have to go against all my own doubts to make it so!"

She felt put her other hand into the messy muck and grabbed whatever it was and with all her strength she was going just pull.

[Leon]

She would easily at this point rip whatever it was from the ink like substance, which quickly flipped around her and adorned its self like a cape, flowing in some non-existent wind. Leon would whistle.

"Yes, ma'am. Docile as a newborn pup that power is. Best to keep the faith in yourself least it get funny ideas, I'd think."

Leon would chuckle after that.

"So this was hiding there, waiting on you. Let's see this in real time, savvy?"

And like that Avice would be ripped from her mind scape as it was her and Leon sitting on her hospital bed, on the roof.

[Avice Locke]

She came forward feeling like she just reached warp speed for a split second. She supported herself with a hand looking around and seeing where she was. She pulled it out and thought to look for what ever it might have been before Leon pulled them out of there. She was a bit confused and a little muddled with what she saw but she sat up and patted her shoulder maybe feeling whatever she might have discovered?

[Leon]

It was present outside in reality. Avice would feel a cape, it was fluid, but solid, super light like it wasn't there.

"So thats how you did it. Makes sense."

Avice unlocks!