Everest Meditations

Posted on Tue Feb 5th, 2019 @ 11:28pm by Ahreva Malana

Mission: Earthly Visitation
Location: Peak of Mount Everest
Timeline: 2396

Many people would wonder what a being evolved from a granite face would consider a vacation. Malana would tell these people that it was sitting in one place for a long period of time watching. Watching what? The people. Animals, Seasons. Rocks eroding. The passage of time. Everything.

That was exactly what she was doing now.

She hadn't messed around with hiking or preparations or anything like that.

She was as resolute as the stone she was standing on.

Paying the tour guides to just beam her to the peak of Mount Everest, she wasn't wearing anything more than her normal clothing. They had looked at her like she was crazy, but she had taken a communicator and since she had passed their scans as nothing more than granite, they finally acquiesced to her request and transported her straight up.

Finding a sort of bench-like ledge, she sat down on it and prepared herself. Taking a deep breath, Malana let it out and stopped breathing, entering a meditative state and began watching the whole of this world.

Clouds passed. Day and night passed. Hikers passed and even took their picture with the odd statue that had been added to the peak. Below the frost line she could see trees, animals, lakes... Life flowing from the snow into the lands below. All of this too passed.

In a blur yet in slow motion, time passed for Malana as she watched everything within her view. Stars paused in time, yet streaking across the sky. The sun forever frozen in time, but always on the move, constantly rising and setting at the same time.

Time was meaningless to the young Ashravenan as she just watched.

At the end of two weeks, the communicator in her pocket went off, vibrating at a frequency that only one of her kind would notice. Slowly, she blinked and started to rouse herself from her meditations, ice crystals shattering from her as she began to slowly move.

It took her over an hour to finally snap out of her meditative trance, but finally she was able to start breathing again, stand, and blink normally. Still frozen, she pulled her communicator out of her pocket and activated it, signaling for the base camp that she was ready for a beam out.

For decades she would be known as the miracle of Everest, having spent two weeks meditating on the peak in nothing but a jumpsuit only to come down like she'd spent it in a spring valley.