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Solstice Chapter 16

And in the blink of an eye, I was alone *snap* Just like that. Neither totally focused nor totally spread across creation, but in a gray limbo of nowhere...

I floated, disembodied, in a haze.  Distance seemed very very distorted as I drifted downwards, ever so slowly, in a gentle meandering spiral. I noticed huge boulders tumbling lazily through the air around me, hanging almost weightlessly upon the breeze.

A moon sized furry ball rolled along the air waves, followed by a horribly bespiked planet, it's sharp barbs and twisted hooks reaching miles above it's surface, threatening to snag the little moon if it didn't watch out.

Another bolder floated past me...

I had the distinct impression that I had become a speck of dust and nothing more.  A simple speck of dust, with awareness.

Just floating along at the complete mercy of the Fates. *sigh*

Powerless.

A tree trunk drifted past me and Smashed into a little boulder that was floating along rather peacefully.  The little boulder, in turn, shot downwards at an alarming rate while the tree trunk continued to tumble happily along.

This was Not Groovy. *laughs*

I pondered the power problem furiously.

The first, and most Obvious solution was the Force *giggles*

A fuzzy planetoid rolled past.

I focused my energies, concentrating... the planetoid rolled closer...

And as it rolled past I Shoved and Pushed and Kicked at it!! I summoned every bit of Force I could muster and hurled it towards the grain of pollen.

Zilch.

It rolled past, I floated downwards, boulders drifted by...

I pondered.

Up until now, Nothing had snapped me back, nothing had woken me up... Now I was wondering if I even Could wake up again, leave that world behind and return to this one, when the air began to quiver.

I noticed some of the boulders near me begin to spin and quiver, then Swoosh! A gigantic dark mass fell past in a flash, leaving a massive, churning, twisting, sucking Vortex in its wake.

And there I was, spinning around and around inside a blender full of boulders and tree trunks, racing towards the ground at the speed of light...


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