Test your "blade" and pray for relief
From Create Your Own Story
You reach below, feeling the weight of your morning burden. With practiced intent, you work to ease your lingering tension. You close your eyes and raise a prayer to your Spirit Guide. This morning, she has the form of a Panther – supple, primal, hungry.
She circles you in the darkness of your mind with a thrusting stride. Her lithe form presses close, warm breath prickling your skin. “Let it out,” she purrs, her voice caressing your ear. “Don’t hold back.” And you do not.
You surrender to her, and ride a wave of release as every ounce of tension washes away. A great calm descends upon you.
Time, then, to depart. You dress, breakfast on bread and goat's milk, and collect the pack and sword from beside your bed. Outside the hut, you hear the Outpost Settlement stirring into life, voices and sounds of activity carried on the morning air.
You lift back the flap of the hut and step into the early morning sunshine. Eyes follow you as you leave the hut and walk towards the Smutititty Wall. The frontiers-people of this tiny settlement are well aware of your mission and a small crowd of well-wishers follows some distance behind you.
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