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Chapter 5

The Road to Mastery: A New Beginning
Added Wed Dec 29 13:13:02 2004 at level 51:

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| I have finished my guildstudies, such as they were, but is it an
| ending? It does not feel like one. It feels rather like one cycle is
| ending and yet another beginning. It is as if I have come through a
| long winter only to begin anew in the springtime of my life.
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| When I was just a cub, ignorant and innocent, it was my spring. I
| left my Once Kin in search of the guildhalls to learn their ways and
| study my art. But just as spring turns to summer, so too did I turn
| back toward my woodland home and leave the guildhalls behind. I roamed
| the wilds and felt the first stirrings of the beasts within. And as
| summer faded to fall, the beasts within began to howl. I found new
| insights into my being, my nature and my very soul. But now that winter
| has come and gone, it seems that springtime begins a new for me. What
| does it mean?
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| Is there ever an ending, or even a beginning for that matter? The
| Cycle is truly Eternal, that I know. I have often said the same of the
| Hunt. Is this perhaps just a different kind of Hunt? If so, and I think
| it true, then my search has just begun. I must struggle all the harder
| to understand these beasts within me. I must delve into my nature and
| divine the meaning of these beasts. I will embrace these instincts,
| even when they frighten me. The Chase is on, as fresh as the first
| time. It almost makes me feel like a cub again.
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