Role

Chapter 3

Bellassan did not know any way other than what he was taught by his pseudo-father, Finneas, but
in his heart there was always conflict, a yearning. He could barely define this feeling, but it
was as if there was a small flame inside of him that would not go out, no matter how hard he tried
to ignore it. That flame was his conscience, telling him that the things that he and his "family"
were doing was wrong. He had never had direction in morals (his barely-remembered early childhood
in Darsylon now seemed like a dream), but his heart knew right from wrong regardless. There was a
pull toward the light; a light he had never known in his actual life.
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One day when he and Finneas were going through the belongings of one of their victims, a case of
clothing and papers that Finneas had stolen from a traveler while Bellas did his usual distraction
of the poor, lost elven boy, Bellas came across a book that caught his eye. The book was entitled
"Tales of the Knights of Thera" and on the cover was a well-drawn figure of an armored figure
surrounded by a corona of light. Bellas didn't know why, but the book called to him immediately
and he deftly secreted it away in his clothing before Finneas could notice. When he was alone, he
read through the book. It was tales of heroes and heroines of a grand order, who upheld the light
in Thera. The stories were of people protecting the innocent, striking at the heart of evil, and
trying to bring peace to the land. It was all quite the opposite of what he and his "family" did
daily. The book even spoke of people who lied and stole from others, and how the Knights of Thera
would stop them.
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From reading this book (which he did over and over, until he had it virtually memorized), Bellas
came to fully grasp what his heart had been telling him all along. He yearned to be like the
heroes in this book, but his daily actions proved that he was actually more like the villains.