I've been beating my head against the wall for almost two weeks, meditation-wise. Unsurprisingly, all I've accomplished is messing up the garden more times than I can count. I've even taking to memorizing the positions of everything in the garden before I start, so I can reset it all before I leave. I've even figured a few more ways I can manipulate the world around me using the Force. Invigorating and infusing a body so it can move faster, giving people bursts of speed (great fun for the Jawa), or the telekenetic control necessary to go through all of my Saber Forms with just the lightsaber, suspended in space. Master says they call the technique 'animating' the weapon, but it seems a bit of a misnomer, because it's not moving on its own power, nor making decisions on its own. Perhaps it too is failing to hear the Living Force...
The meditation debacle has been eating up so much of my brain that it's impacting my other tasks. It's made me distracted, and my work helping promote the Jedi with the locals has suffered for it. Thankfully, it seems Grid'tok's only goal in life is to help the locals, and they're starting to trust him because of it. Even Asha has been helping out getting the locals to think more favorably of the Jedi with more success than me, and she's a (former) Sith apprentice...
I've taken to meditating in the city on my off-hours, while getting a feel for the streets and the people. It's noisy, and hectic, and more like being home. This is what led to today's 'Unusual Meeting'.
While in meditation on a street corner, looking like a homeless, blind urchin (Thanks for the seven credits, by the way!), I saw the strangest thing. It was, for a lack of a better way to describe it, 'colorful'. It was floating in the ambient Force energies, observing me... and taking notes. I could hear it speaking to itself like it was recording research data into a recorder. I tried speaking to it, but that spooked it, and it tried to hide. Thankfully, it kept up its narration, so I just started to work my way into the dialog, and offered to let it interview me. It said it'd consider that, and then disappeared.
I explained the encounter to Master Alize, who suggested it may be a Force Spirit. Some sort of being native to the flows of the Force directly. This is good, because I was pretty sure I had finally gone insane. Better safe than sorry, I'm off to the Starcrawler to ask Asha to make sure I haven't had an aneurism or anything along those lines...
Who knows? Maybe it'll come back for that interview...