"Keep doing it until I finish the tea," Jedao says, just a tiny bit dryly.
"Try to just...let everything else you're holding and feeling shitty about fall away. Let the water pour into you. There's just the water and the fish. There's no space for other stuff."
This really, really is stupid. He doesn't know why he asked. Roman thinks meditation's the dumbest thing in the universe, always has--it's hippie bullshit, it's yoga and oat milk lattes, it's universal health care and tarot card readings--and he doesn't quite understand how you can just allow the weight of everything to slough off because you're staring at some bubbles.
But he quiets down at least, and focuses on what's in front of him. The anxiety, the worry, the fucking vice grip of uncertainty that's consistently battering him, even before his dad and even before he came onto this ship? It doesn't go away but he finds himself just.... not thinking about it.
Not thinking about anything, really, except what Jedao said. Just what's in front of him.
A quiet Roman is always a strange thing, and his posture's shit, but it looks like Roman's actively zoning out in a way that's very similar to what Jedao described.
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Jedao's fucking weird.
But Roman's going to at least try, because Jedao says it helps. He inhales, is quiet for a few seconds, and....
"Then what?"
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"Try to just...let everything else you're holding and feeling shitty about fall away. Let the water pour into you. There's just the water and the fish. There's no space for other stuff."
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But he quiets down at least, and focuses on what's in front of him. The anxiety, the worry, the fucking vice grip of uncertainty that's consistently battering him, even before his dad and even before he came onto this ship? It doesn't go away but he finds himself just.... not thinking about it.
Not thinking about anything, really, except what Jedao said. Just what's in front of him.
A quiet Roman is always a strange thing, and his posture's shit, but it looks like Roman's actively zoning out in a way that's very similar to what Jedao described.
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