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Silence. It can be a beautiful thing, and when used correctly, can be powerful too. It sometimes is hard to maintain silence, though. The world clutters your mind, makes you remember things from long ago that have been said and done.
Sometimes, you long for silence, but cannot ever find any. You find the world around you noisy, with televisions blaring, car alarms going off, obnoxious music playing just to draw attention. When this happens, you always want to just get away.
There is a way to do it without ever leaving, though. You just relax, release your worries, ignore all that is going around you, close your eyes.
Imagine yourself in a zen garden.
You sit on a nice stone bench. It is simple, not supposed to be eccentric but just there for you to rest and listen. You look around, seeing the place is fairly large and has a variety of plant life. You also see that there is a wall that has enclosed you. Next to you is a famous zen rock garden. You see a wooden rake there, and notice that the rocks are flat. Standing, you take the rake and try creating lines in the rock garden. The sound is strangely peaceful, and you go around three boulder-sized stones that sit there. Soon, you've raked the entire garden, and looking back at it, you notice that it has been done as perfectly as possible.
You wonder how you were able to do such a feat. How could someone with so much clutter in their mind create something so beautiful?
You return the rake to where you find it, and notice something sitting there. There is a little grey river stone, with your deer's pictogram etched into it. You pick it up curiously, and putting it into your pocket, you walk deeper into the garden, following a path made of stone.
Clonk! You hear something nearby, it's the only sound in the area.
Clonk! What is it?
