Making a New Friend

Another week of meditating, and I've finally managed to make contact with the manta-like entity once again. They've agreed to a more active 'observation and interview' process. To facilitate which, they've taught me a vastly different form of meditation that makes it easier to see and hear them. The process is almost entirely opposite how the Jedi teach meditation. Where a Jedi immerses themselves into the Force, they've taught me how to 'remove myself from the Current', in order to better observe it from the outside. For a flow of energy that permeates all living things, it's a very... odd... thing to do. It's the first time I can remember where I couldn't sense things around me. I finally know what it really feels like to be blind in the way people expect me to be. But it also seems like something I heard in Temple. "It's only when you've turned off all of the bright lights, that you can see those things too faint to shine through otherwise", or something like that. It's a visually sighted thing, so I'm not certain I'm making the analogy right.
 
Second plus, Master Alize can sense him, so I'm not crazy.
 
They're going to be nearby all of the time now, observing and recording. I'm also allowed to ask questions about their people, as long as the answers wouldn't compromise their safety. They seem to be some form of projection, and they say their physical forms are much larger, and live in an environment that sounds like a nebula. There's still some vocabulary hurdles to overcome, so we're trying to create ways to catch when translation isn't clean. We've forged some level of bond, which lets me do neat things, like 'see through their eyes'. Again, a hard comparison, since I lack a comparison, but it seems fairly safe to say that this isn't how most sighted being see, since it seems a lot more akin to how I sense the Force, but with an 'after-image' layered under it that reflects the physical nature "under the Current", as they put it.
 
Master Alize asked if they had a name. The response isn't something any language I know is capable of dealing with. It's been left to me to give them an appropriate nickname, so I need to give that some thought.