Oh gosh excellent yes now she can-

Aaaaaand she drops out of it.

"Augh," she says.

"You did it! Now you just need to keep it going."

Yvette makes a face, and then - gets back to trying it again.

It's harder to get into the mindset when she's also going, C'mon you did it before you can do it again at herself, and also staving off But what will I say to them when I can actually talk to them, and How could I possibly speak to them when I have to keep my mind clear?!

Getting back is going to take a while.

Yes. It probably is. She might glimpse some things with her eyes closed every now and then, if she manages to spend more than thirty seconds without letting her brain get in the way of her thoughts.

This is so freaking hard.

Despite this, she does actually manage it. Once. After about half an hour.

When she does, she will notice that the thing she sees is the magic circle under her, and the cards to either side of her, floating, and... something else.

Noticing the something else causes her to lose the meditation, because what is that she must know.

She huffs, then asks, "There was another thing, along with the cards and magic circle, do you know what that is?"

"I didn't feel anything."

... She does a survey of what is in the room right now.

"Could I have been seeing you?"

"Yes, that is a definitive possibility!"

"Is it very likely?" sighs Yvette.

"Yes!"

"Right."

Back to failing to meditate. Where is her brother with those ocean soundtracks?

Cerberus can't do remote seeing.

Here he is!

He doesn't ask how it's going, he can guess pretty well by the look on his sister's face. He wordlessly offers her a stunningly beautiful multi-tool-with-a-prominent-switchblade-edition with a green, silver and black floral pattern on the handle of it.

She was failing at meditation anyway, she looks up when he comes in and stares at the knife.

"Where did you even find this, it's gorgeous."

"I am the best brother," he says magnanimously, "and I have my ways. Do you want the ocean, forest, or soothing jazz music soundtrack?"

"Forest," she decides. "Thank you."

The best brother gets a hug.

"Okay. I have the books on meditation if you also want them, don't know how useful they'll be."

He forks over his iPod because he realized partway through shopping that buying CDs is silly. Sorry, record stores. This is the digital age. Blair has moved on.

"Anything else you need me for?" he asks, directed to his sister and not the bear-thing.

Yvette considers, then shakes her head.

"Thanks."

"...what's that for?" the bear thing asks of the multi-tool thing.

"I will be getting into dangerous, varied situations, right?"

"Yes?"

"So this is a multitool, it has lots of things on it for lots of different situations, in case I need a tiny slightly insufficient screwdriver to - I don't know, crawl into a vent like an action hero. A tiny insufficient screwdriver's better than none at all."

But also it has a knife. If she needs it.

"Okay."