No wonder Professor Romanos was so poised. It must be all the meditating and yoga, which wasn't seeming like such a bad idea now that she herself was as far from that word as she had ever been. And that bit about the hardest part being the clearing of the mind? Understatement of the century.

That was like telling someone to not think about pink and green polka dotted dragons. Once you were told that, you couldn't NOT think about them. Kurumi closed her eyes, hoping that in doing so it would help her focus...but no such luck. Her mind was wandering all over the place. Maybe...focusing on ONE thing would help?

She was having inner chatter with herself, wasn't she? She needed to stop that. But HOW?! SEE! More inner chatter

Slowly...Kurumi took several deep breaths and, surprisingly, all the images that had been swimming around inside her subconscious faded in color and soon she was only left with a blank white image of...nothing? She sure hoped that is what it was.