"I guess? It's still kind of weird. And definitely a sign of trust she told you."

"Some dastardly villain might scheme to force her onto a boat, eh..."

This is said halfheartedly. She's folding in on herself a bit again.

"Prophecy is uncomfortable."

"Yeah, it can be. Let's get off the topic of cultivation. Any other games you like? I've been meaning to check out more video gaming now that I can actually do it."

"I'm not a big gamer honestly, but Nintendo stuff is pretty reliably fun. Portal and Portal 2 are old now but great. Breath of the Wild is great. I like most of the Civilization games. World of- actually nah. League of Legends, but I'm real bad at it."

"Yuki loves League and keeps making me play it even though I hate the toxicity."

"Audrey just needs to quit being a noob and stop tilting. It's good practice for reality."

"Oh, I just straight up ignore my teammates."

"Good strategy." 

Cocoa turns onto the main highway. "Time to settle in for the long haul. Three hours to London, was it?"

"That's a terrible strategy."

She leans her head against the back window. "I have to say though, this modern age has a lot more than the one I grew up in. Cars.  League. Electricity. It's kind of heartening to see all the progress the world has made since my death."

"Well, I'm not a serious player. I don't play ranked... Never before in human history has so much changed so quickly. You know- I heard that time travel is a really recent story subject. In the middle ages, things didn't change, so time travel was just the same as - moving halfway across the continent. Nobody knows you, the kings are different, that's it. So nobody wrote about it. They didn't expect that the past lacks so many things we want, or the future will have fantastical technologies..."

"Huh. I guess that makes sense, yeah. Interesting!"

"Say Trys, want to do some meditation practice?"

"...Is that a strange way of phrasing some kind of passing-the-time car game? Or serious, like, that one should be able to meditate in less restful places?"

"The latter. Not to pressure you into training more or anything."

"Well, it'd let Cocoa pick out his own music." Heh. "Sure, why not?"

"Alright, let's do an hour and a half. Then Cocoa can get us snacks and stuff and we can chat for the second half of the car ride."

Cocoa puts on the Rankin Family. 

She closes her eyes and tries to let her mind slip away into breathing, but the pose of a car seat, the pressure of the seatbelt, the music blaring and the noise of the road and the slight motion- Well, she doesn't get carsick, but meditating this... Is not happening easily.

"...I guess I'm not very good at meditating yet."

Audrey opens an eye. 

"Yeah, it takes real skill. You'll pick it up, anyway. All the Seniors can meditate through just about anything."

"Hmm. Any tips besides 'practice'?"

"It's okay if distractions catch your attention so long as you come back to the meditation. Cocoa, can you go without music?"

"I can manage."

"Would you like the music off?"

"For a few minutes at least, yeah."

Cocoa kills it and they sit in silence.