Role

Chapter 3

I could learn no more in the depths of the Underdark. The selection of
specimens was too small and my power to influence events too limited. I had
some limited training as a priestess and excelled in all my training so I
felt I was more than prepared to escape to the feared world of burning light.
The surfaced did indeed burn! At times I felt as if my head would explode,
and yet it felt exquisite to me all the same. It was different than what I
had always felt. New and exciting! How could I know just how comforting the
shadows were without ever experiencing this? Surely none of my family even
consider how pleasant the coolness of the shadows are. I began to consider if
the same holds true to those of the surface. The pleasure of healing after
pain, food after hunger, water after thirst. All these contrasts are what
make the opposite so succulent and amazing. To struggle past an obstacle
and claw ones way toward a goal is to experience misery along the journey's
path, but without attempting such a struggle one would not enjoy the fruits
of their rewards.