Role

Chapter 19

I am tired. I have accomplished much I have wanted to.

The last of things though. Drucin will not be an anathema, but
I have managed a peace with him that serves the village.

I still work to have my name on the pillar, but I will not know
that at all.

The pendulum swings again, and as it does, the times change. I have
been through more drillmasters than I could have wished to,
albeit part of that was my mistake with Draveneth.

I have not so many times past the healer to go. How hard is it to
finish with as good an ending to my life as can be? I do not
know how many are left in the village to inspire, nor if there will
be new blood, yet the village has existed for time immemorial.

As I write this, new blood comes to the village.

I wonder if I will outlast this one too.

I will fight on, and try not to die as much as I have been. The village needs
this constancy.

And if that is what I have left to give, that is what I will give.