fandomtownies | The Preserve, Wednesday evening

Zayne needed to try something new. Training with the Force in his dorm room didn't generally seem to work out. He was going with the theory that while there was plenty of life in the dorms, it was very busy. People were all around him, walking, talking, doing all kinds of things that could, in theory, be distracting to someone trying to focus on the life force of everything around him.

It wasn't necessarily a good theory, but it was a theory nonetheless. And that was why he came out to the Preserve tonight. The Force was in everything out here. Even Zayne and his relative lack of sensitivity could feel that. He took a seat on the ground, closed his eyes, and opened his mind...

Zayne managed not to try too hard, to let the energy find him in its own time. As he did this, he could slowly start to sense his surroundings. A squirrel here. A teal deer there. An owl above him. Okay. That one he could hear, Force or no Force. But still, it counted.

As this went on, Zayne started to think that maybe he was right. Maybe he just needed to change his routine. Maybe...

Maybe on second thought this whole nature thing wasn't working as well as he thought. After all, he didn't sense the owl when it swooped down to grab his braid, probably thinking it was some kind of weird woodland creature. The bad part, Zayne mused as he managed to get his hair away from the owl, was that this was still one of the more successful meditations Zayne had experienced recently.

[OOC: Open if anyone is out in the Preserve this evening.]