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The forest is dark, and calm, and quiet. Birds chirp in the trees, and herbivores snuffle around in the underbrush or bolt at the scent of a predator, but nothing more aggressive than nature itself can dwell long here without being discovered and dealt with, one way or another. 

In a clearing, a brook winds its way through shallow curves in the hillside. Anything remotely supernatural that happened here would definitely be noticed within less than an hour. 

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So the two of them (i.e., Sizhui with occasional kibbitzing from Jingyi) explains how to center oneself and draw spiritual energy in. 

(You) (probably) (will) (not) (be) (able) (to) (tell) (if) (it) (is) (working) (but) (we) (can)

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"Well, tell me right away if you see it working, and maybe if I can do it at the same time as precogging I'll know early."

She attempts to meditate.

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Jingyi makes an excited exclamation after almost ten minutes. 

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"What, already?"

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(Just) (a) (little) Sizhui plays, shooting his friend an amused look. 

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"Well, I guess I'm on the right track!" She will keep meditating for a bit, and see if she can get advance notice of any more excited noises so she can do whatever precedes them sooner; she can precog pretty quick if she's not pathing through a choose-your-own-adventure and just planning to meditate the whole time.

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There are a couple of ways she can adjust how she's meditating that work better than others. Most of them work eventually but she can get variations on a scale of about five minutes to most of an hour. 

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Cool! Then she can be meditating along at a really good clip from the start.

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At one point after a precogged hour spent almost entirely meditating by a particularly effective method, Sizhui blinks in startlement and Jingyi is more visibly surprised. 

(What) (did) (you) (just) (do) Sizhui plays. 

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"- uh, I'm trying lots of things in precog to see what gets you guys making excited noises since I can't sense it directly, but... I did not in fact foresee you making that noise, what happened?"

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(Energy) (just) (jumped) (to) (you) (as) (though) (you) (had) (been) (meditating) (for) (about) (a) (half) (hour) (in) (the) (space) (of) (a) (second)

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"- ha," she says, "what a beautiful cheat, I love it."

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(Precogging) (meditation) (counts) (?) (That) (is) (wonderful)

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"Yeah! I still need to work on contacting my brother but it's very cool that I can practice this and precognition at the same time."

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(In) (order) (to) (stick) (the) (energy) (to) (you) (to) (form) (a) (core) (it) (is) (useful) (to) (do) (physical) (activity) (at) (the) (same) (time) 

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"...huh. What kind?"

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(More) (than) (one) (kind) (is) (best) 

(Having) (a) (golden) (core) (enhances) (physical) (abilities) 

(Parts) (of) (the) (body) (that) (have) (more) (energy) (channeled) (through) (them) (are) (improved) (more) 

(We) (do) (handstands) (while) (copying) (sect) (rules) (and) (have) (better) (upper) (body) (strength) (than) (other) (sects) 

He smiles innocently. 

(Jing) (yi) (has) (better) (upper) (body) (strength) (than) (me) 

Jingyi makes a face at him. 

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"I'm very clumsy, so I won't be able to do much. I could do situps or something. ..how do you copy rules and do handstands at the same time?"

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(You) (stand) (with) (your) (left) (hand)

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"I need the cane to walk. I don't think I can do a handstand with both hands, let alone one."

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(They) (don't) (make) (small) (children) (do) (it) 

He realizes what he just played, and flusters. 

(Not) (that) (you) (are) (a) (child) (I) (just) (meant) (since) (you) (don't) (have) (a) (golden) (core)

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"I get it. What do children do?"

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(Running) (laps) (basic) (martial) (arts) (sit) (ups) (push) (ups) (pull) (ups) (leg) (lifts) (squats)

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"I can do situps. ...well, I can do crunches and work my way up."

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The idea of being unable to do sit ups seems vaguely bewildering to him but he just nods. 

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