It's a long ride from Kansas to North Carolina. She's staked a claim to the rear of the bus and spends it there, cuffed hands well out of sight.
Occasionally, she dozes, drifting in and out of consciousness as the noise of the road and quiet murmurs of other passengers break against her perception like waves on a beach. This is the closest to relaxed that she's come in... a while.
"It can be. It moves when we try to grasp it, and it slips away from us easily. It's everywhere, in everyone and everything - and it connects all those things together, and it's nearly impossible to notice without training."
"It's eternal, too. Once you have the Force - nothing can take that from you. You can be stopped from reaching it temporarily... But you are still a part of it."
"It's nice."
"There's some parts that can be overwhelming - especially once you're immersed, you... Can't close your eyes again, I've found."
"No."
"And the cost of this is lower than most, so long as you have some basic caution."
Oh that's a lovely expression indeed...
"Ready for more lessons?" she murmurs.
Good.
The Keres can start with moving objects with her mind. Like, say...
That big boulder over there. (It looks very, very heavy. She wouldn't be able to nudge it without powers or serious machinery - or some very clever and careful use of shovels and pickaxes downhill of it.)
She lets the Keres try on her own at first, not stepping in with suggestions unless the woman seems to be getting unhelpfully frustrated.
Breathe in, hold, breathe out, hold...
It's a very heavy rock. She knows this. Her awareness tells her this. She tries reaching out but-
"It's too heavy."
"We are luminous beings; there is nothing to me that isn't to you - and I move the same way I always have, by forming the intent and then making it manifest in the world."
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