She smiled. It actually helps to keep your emotions in check by meditating. Trust me, I've had a lot of time to spend doing that in several different places: it's all the road back to yourself again.

And other places, of course, as she watched how Billy's radiated sense of peace mingled with her own. It was hard to stay set on concrete thought as she followed him, glad to have him lead.

And she laughed aloud, which seemed to color all around her.