Garyth and Sa'id Follow
Subject: Re: Deliberations
Garyth watches Mission move down the tunnel. Trusting the priest's ravings was, of course, crazy. Even if Cadfael hadn't gone mad, giving up the cover of darkness went against all of his training and instincts. Even so, Garyth finds himself rising and following the monk, feeling a strange combination of resignation and relief.
When gods struggle against each other, mere men can do little except try to get out of the way. But that option had disappeared the moment this expedition had begun. Nothing remained, really, but to accept fate, to put himself in the gods' hands and hold fast to hope. And though this would likely bring his own death, and perhaps the deaths of his companions, knowing that events were no longer truly his own to command somehow comforts Garyth.
From: Raja
Subject: Re: Deliberations
Sa'id fully expects to die tomorrow afternoon. While he believes Cadfael's words, and even -- in a twisted way -- trusts the priest, he does NOT trust the god, Pelor, to keep to his own word and use his power to grant them safe passage. Pelor, the god of the sun, was supposed to be a just, loving god. What kind of love could inspire anyone to break a man in the way Cadfael was broken?
Only a sick, twisted, utterly mortal kind of love, Sa'id thinks bitterly. Perhaps the conclusion to be drawn from their imminent deaths was that the gods, if they existed at all, were not truly divine. Perhaps they were merely creatures -- wizards, even -- who attained power so great that they could now subject the world of mortals to their fickle desires.
The necromancer refrains from outright cursing Pelor, though. Fickle and depraved though the god may be, they would need his help in the morning. Sa'id sighs, and follows Mission and Garyth.
From: Ty
Subject: Re: Deliberations
As I mentioned on sakeriver, I am just waiting for a general chorus of 'we do this' before I write the next turn.
From: Karl
Subject: Re: Deliberations
Farron is studying Tiny Hut with the intention of casting it in the side tunnel to give everyone the most comfortable last nights sleep possible.