Bab 286: 186 - Void

System Type: Introspection

There are those who call void the extra element.  Depending upon your philosophy, it is either the utter lack of all elements, or the perfect union of all of them.

To my philosophy, it was totally mind-numbingly boring.

I wasn't conscious; I wasn't unconscious.  I just … wasn't… for a while.

I couldn't feel a physical or even a dream body.  I didn't have eyes to rub or even eyelids to blink.

I wasn't breathing, and had no heartbeat.  Yet somehow I didn't seem to be dead, either. 

And there was nothing for my psychic or mystic senses, either.  Well, as long as I was here…

It was like natural meditation; forming the spirals to refine mana were easy.  Ugh, when had I last cleaned out my aura?  Well, I wasn't getting it PURE anytime soon, but I began clearing off the "dingy" spots, where magical energies had gotten where they weren't supposed to.