Naming

by Kathryn Andersen

A Zen drabble for AstroGirl2.

To be completely known -- it's like innocence.

The one called Jenna Stannis had many alien concepts in her mind. Striving, and its opposite, peace; desire, passion, freedom, and its dark cousin, disobedience. And a sense of self.

Self is an illusion. There is just existance. And obedience.

"Who are you?"

She thinks this one is a person? She is mistaken. Yet her self-nature has need of a name, a label. What had been in her mind when she was thinking of this one? Peace. And understanding. And a lack of self.

She even had a name for the concept.

"Zen."