Role

Chapter 3

In Gwythienne's travels, she learned many things. She learned to take the form
of many animals, able to dive beneath the waves as she had always dreamed, to
burrow in the earth, leap across the plains. It was the freedom she always
knew it would be. In learning these forms, she fought against evil creatures
that harmed the people and the land. With each blow against these evil foes,
she imagined the little trickle of water that was her life enlarging a path,
on its way to be the river that she would become. These choices mattered, and
she remembered them all.

When she had learned all she could of her magic, she began to then consider
what other choices she could make that would shape the world. She wanted to
make a difference, to promote freedom and the light. She had come into contact
with those of The Fortress of the Light in her travels, and in talking with
them had come to admire their mission greatly. While Gwythienne wished to make
a difference in this world, she understood that she was but a single person.
She would have a greater impact if she combined her efforts with others.
Thinking of things in terms of water, as she often did, Gwythienne imagined a
stream merging with a larger river. The stream did not diminish in this union,
it became part of something grander. And that was what Gwythienne wished for
herself.

Thinking also of the lesson she had learned from her mother all of those years
before, about how every small action can have a huge impact somewhere down the
stream of time, Gwythienne was drawn to the path of the Scribe. For in that
path, Gwythienne would influence others' choices as well, amplifying the
impact she could have in this world. She had learned to flow like the water,
now she would learn to heal and nurture like the water as well.