>>6182227https://youtu.be/8US2V8Y-vwY?si=aRpxFd1_wheY4RoW“Well… if you’re sure. But just remember we’re all in this together, okay? No harm in opening up a bit. Also, if you’re at all hungry, need a break, or even just a little distraction, there’s a bunch of food available.” You give him a kind smile. “Just remember though, cranes don’t steel themselves, they dance in the sky.
He looks toward you, then shakes his head and slouches his shoulders. “…Okay, you have a point. What do you suggest then?”
“I could meditate with you if you’d like, maybe you could try some Yardratian techniques I’ve learned. Image training especially might help.” You take a meditative position. “Just know, if you’ve been struggling with something, it does help to try to express it with someone. I mean, after the business with Babidi at the Tournament taking over peoples’ minds, and the Machine Mutants infesting peoples’ bodies and… kinda giving me anxiety any time seeing something looking like a silvery liquid, I ended up needing to see a therapist over all of it. Might have been with my mom’s help, but… well, that’s just it, it was my mom willing to help me because I reached out.”
He takes a meditative stance as well. “Maple is still quite a wise woman. You take after her well.” Closing his eyes, he expresses, “I am… trying to come to terms with my failure. I came so close to rescuing Master Tien once already, only to be sent… elsewhere. To a world devastated and broken. Because I was not quick enough, time had to be spent saving me. Time that could have gone toward rescuing Master Tien.”
“I wouldn’t call that a failure. If anything we’re lucky things didn’t go so, so much worse.” you tell him calmly. “We were caught unawares. You couldn’t have foreseen it any better than the rest of us. Besides, I was right there with you, trying my best to rescue Tien too. If you failed, then I failed too. But we both are able to push past this, grow from it, and give this another go. We’ll save him.”
“Mm.” he grunts lowly.
You close your eyes as well and suggest, “How about some image training? It could help you push past this.”
(cont.)
