Dani
Who have you chose
to stand as your martyr?
to stand as your martyr?
A new world.
Just as Dani was thinking it would be premature to take this stranger's word on the status of her safety, all such thoughts ceased when those words had left his lips. A new world. A new world. They echoed ceaselessly in the stillness that had become her mind.
Outrageous. At least, that's how she'd normally respond to such an impossible claim. But how could she call it impossible when no other explanation offered itself for her seemingly impossible circumstances? The gears of her mind began turning once again.
Perhaps she had stumbled in the darkness of her forest during her retreat, and was currently lying on the forest floor in the midst of a fever dream. It made more logical sense, but Dani intuitively knew this not to be true. The feeling of the barren earth holding her weight, the parched air that mixed into her breath, and the voice of this mysterious stranger; all were as real as anything she'd ever experienced. And even if somehow this were no more than a vivid hallucination, would it matter?
If she truly were lying incapacitated within the forest she'd trudged through seemingly minutes prior, then she'd be dead before dawn. Nobody had known where she was going, or that she'd even left. It'd be hours before anyone noticed, let alone found her.
With no other options before her, she placed the entirety of her trust unto this strange new person, and even stranger new world.
"Gods?" She let the word settle into her mind. "Whether or not there were gods was a question with an answer that changed depending on who you asked. But, no, not really. Not outside of stories." She paused, and felt the beginnings of wonder start to fill her. "Are there gods...here?" She could hardly filter the anticipation from her voice, awaiting his answer.
Just as Dani was thinking it would be premature to take this stranger's word on the status of her safety, all such thoughts ceased when those words had left his lips. A new world. A new world. They echoed ceaselessly in the stillness that had become her mind.
Outrageous. At least, that's how she'd normally respond to such an impossible claim. But how could she call it impossible when no other explanation offered itself for her seemingly impossible circumstances? The gears of her mind began turning once again.
Perhaps she had stumbled in the darkness of her forest during her retreat, and was currently lying on the forest floor in the midst of a fever dream. It made more logical sense, but Dani intuitively knew this not to be true. The feeling of the barren earth holding her weight, the parched air that mixed into her breath, and the voice of this mysterious stranger; all were as real as anything she'd ever experienced. And even if somehow this were no more than a vivid hallucination, would it matter?
If she truly were lying incapacitated within the forest she'd trudged through seemingly minutes prior, then she'd be dead before dawn. Nobody had known where she was going, or that she'd even left. It'd be hours before anyone noticed, let alone found her.
With no other options before her, she placed the entirety of her trust unto this strange new person, and even stranger new world.
"Gods?" She let the word settle into her mind. "Whether or not there were gods was a question with an answer that changed depending on who you asked. But, no, not really. Not outside of stories." She paused, and felt the beginnings of wonder start to fill her. "Are there gods...here?" She could hardly filter the anticipation from her voice, awaiting his answer.
To prove purposeful
in courses uncharted
in courses uncharted
