You dance along in a playful fit, swatting randomly at the branches you pass and laughing as the flowers tickle your toes. You've lost your shoes somewhere, you'll have to be sure to find them agian. As you wander you come across a surface that's no longer the springy warmth of grass, but instead the cool surface of stone. You feel moss on it, and trees grow between in random areas, but the earth feels different; harder, as if it too were stone and merely disguising itself. With a few more steps you come across a small garden, yet this is unlike any garden you've ever before seen. It is a garden of gems, and one in particular draws your attention, one shaped like another kind of dog. At least, you think it's a crystal gem until it speaks.
"Hello. I am Shalvraen. I was just meditating. Would you care to join me?"
"I'm Leilani," you say automatically as you step beside this new creature. "I'm afraid I don't know how to meditate though. The closest I've ever come is Tai Chi."
"No worries," the ellymede says in a slightly hollow, yet ringing voice. I know the art of Tai Chi." And with those words the two of you are flowing from one form to the next, the motions causing you to travel ever so slowly through the garden as you begin to grow calm again.
