Chapter 10.5
A sense of wrongness surrounded Katashi that was almost overwhelming. It was all he could do to keep following Jaala, to not shout out for him to stop.
An image came to his mind though as they moved down the dimly lit hallway that was taking them further and further into the earth. He was a youth, sitting opposite his master in meditation. His master had spoken to him asking him if on their walking meditation that morning, high in the hills he had noticed the single leaf that had fallen from the sycamore tree as they had walked underneath it, he asked what color that leaf was and where it had landed. He was embarrassed that he had not noticed and could not answer any of the questions. His master had chided him, taught him many things that morning, but one of those things came to mind today. “Katashi,” he had said, “Chaos is order, and order is chaos.”
They came up to a door. It blocked their way and the only choice was to go through it or to turn around and go back. Jaala stopped a few feet in front of it hesitating, smile still on his face he looked back at Katashi who was coming up beside him. “What say you?”
Katashi kept moving past Jaala and spoke as he did, “Prepare yourself brother. In Chaos is order.” It was counter intuitive, it didn’t make sense if you thought about it which was why it seemed exactly the right thing to do in this case to Kitashi. They weren’t expected to be here, to go through this door, and perhaps that was reason enough.
His hand touched the rough wooden handle and with no stopping he pulled it quickly towards them throwing it wide open.
