03-06-2018, 05:36 PM
They had come to participate in these games, to test their mettle against others who share Beqanna, but she was somehow not expecting to be separated from her brother. But teams had not been chosen by participants, but randomly assigned; she has awoken with the shining Beta on her flank, and Belgaer has instead an Iota.
Her own teammates are the black Jesper and the black-and-white Castile. She glances at the boys and then steps up to take her task. Courage – the courage to tell this large group of strangers her deepest fear, and hope they won’t use it against her in the future. Others begin to speak around her, but she takes a moment to consider – what is her deepest, truest fear?
“I fear death,” she finally speaks into a the silence; “the unknown of what is beyond this life, that is my greatest fear.” It is the uncertainty of the whole affair; not really the dying itself or her own mortality, but having no idea what happens in the afterlife – or lack of one. That is what Mosrael fears the most.
The Princess of the West is Annie Oakley, and her horse in the TV portrayal is Target.
Her own teammates are the black Jesper and the black-and-white Castile. She glances at the boys and then steps up to take her task. Courage – the courage to tell this large group of strangers her deepest fear, and hope they won’t use it against her in the future. Others begin to speak around her, but she takes a moment to consider – what is her deepest, truest fear?
“I fear death,” she finally speaks into a the silence; “the unknown of what is beyond this life, that is my greatest fear.” It is the uncertainty of the whole affair; not really the dying itself or her own mortality, but having no idea what happens in the afterlife – or lack of one. That is what Mosrael fears the most.
The Princess of the West is Annie Oakley, and her horse in the TV portrayal is Target.