Amanda rolled out her meditation mat and sat on it, she had hoped to stop this after leaving Sister Psyche's tutoring but Stephan had insisted she continue with it, at least now it was once a week instead of every day like Sister Psyche had insisted. But dwelling on the past wasn't going to help her concentrate.
She cleared her thoughts and spread her conciousness over the entire city, at this range she couldn't make out individual feelings or thoughts, this was something else, it was the city as a whole, it had a mind of it's own she had realised the first time she had done this. It was also insane, in human terms anyway, it constantly tried to destroy parts of it's own mind and the theoretical left hand never knew what the right did.
She tightened her focus, she could reach out to Skyway City and Independence Port now, with her range at this point she could make out mob emotions, the frustration of people going to work and school, the joys of young children in playgroups and the relief of crowds seeing a hero save the day.
She tightened her powers to Kings Row and felt the individual emotions of the people in the street, she felt the emotions of people and their surface thoughts as well, she felt many criminals in the streets but didn't stop to examine their thoughts to deeply, this wasn't the time for that.
Now she pulled her focus into the building, this was deep, she could scan not only for surface thoughts but memories as well, she found a bird on a window sill and moved into it's mind.
Amanda pushed the thought of flight into the birds mind, it flexed it's wings before it leapt, she felt the wind beneath it's wings, the joy of the endless expanse before it. She allowed those feelings to overtake her before she opened her eyes.
She carefully rolled up the mat and placed it back into her wardrobe, she walked into the sitting room in the apartment and opened the large window, she stepped out of the ledge and closed the window, then she stepped into the air, and for the first time she flew. It wasn't like how she had seen it through the bird, but it was enough for now.
Amanda rolled out her meditation mat and sat on it, she had hoped to stop this after leaving Sister Psyche's tutoring but Stephan had insisted she continue with it, at least now it was once a week instead of every day like Sister Psyche had insisted. But dwelling on the past wasn't going to help her concentrate.
She cleared her thoughts and spread her conciousness over the entire city, at this range she couldn't make out individual feelings or thoughts, this was something else, it was the city as a whole, it had a mind of it's own she had realised the first time she had done this. It was also insane, in human terms anyway, it constantly tried to destroy parts of it's own mind and the theoretical left hand never knew what the right did.
She tightened her focus, she could reach out to Skyway City and Independence Port now, with her range at this point she could make out mob emotions, the frustration of people going to work and school, the joys of young children in playgroups and the relief of crowds seeing a hero save the day.
She tightened her powers to Kings Row and felt the individual emotions of the people in the street, she felt the emotions of people and their surface thoughts as well, she felt many criminals in the streets but didn't stop to examine their thoughts to deeply, this wasn't the time for that.
Now she pulled her focus into the building, this was deep, she could scan not only for surface thoughts but memories as well, she found a bird on a window sill and moved into it's mind.
Amanda pushed the thought of flight into the birds mind, it flexed it's wings before it leapt, she felt the wind beneath it's wings, the joy of the endless expanse before it. She allowed those feelings to overtake her before she opened her eyes.
She carefully rolled up the mat and placed it back into her wardrobe, she walked into the sitting room in the apartment and opened the large window, she stepped out of the ledge and closed the window, then she stepped into the air, and for the first time she flew. It wasn't like how she had seen it through the bird, but it was enough for now.