a thumpin' good time

Tuesday, April 27, 2004

i explained how i had tried reaching pyong before, and how i had failed. drin suggested i try again. "just because it didn't work that one time, doesn't mean that it will never work. do you always give up so easily?" i felt somewhat chastised. how hard had i tried? not very, except for a thought here and there, and the one time i had cast my psychic tendrils out into the world looking for pyong pyong. ground control, this is major tom... well. i will do better.

drin and i left our cave and went out into the mountains. drin directed me to fly up to the top of a certain peak. "that's kavlorian peak, " he said, "named after the explorer who first traversed these mountains. she summited there and announced to her team that she could see the whole world. i reckon, rabbit, if she could see the whole world, you might be able to make contact with your friend."

i flew up and landed softly on the peak. then i composed myself. pyong, i thought. pyong pyong? are you there? silence. could she hear me? was i too far away? maybe she was ignoring me? i waited. listening and alternately throwing my mental voice across the world. if pyong was still in the world, she wasn't answering. maybe an hour later i came down feeling a bit worn out and depressed. drin was in good spirits, however. he told me not to worry about it...i could try again later on. try try try again. i admit i felt that somehow meeting drin would change my luck for the better. i guess it's like having a parent that you depend on for everything. you expect their arrival to make all the difference and right all wrongs in your world. the magic of drin was taking longer to work than i'd thought.