SWC – Day 11
HOW DOES YOUR CHARACTER ACT WHEN THEY ARE AFRAID?
To my children now and those that might come-
Fear.
It is an instinctive thing fear. Both our teacher and the chains that hold us down. When we cut out selves with a knife or touch a hot stove it is our reminder. Danger, it tells us. That hurts. Don’t do that again. It is what helps us survive. Only a fool does not fear. The one that lacks it is one who has lost something valuable.
And then there is fear when we let it do more than just teach. When fear controls you it becomes your chains. Whether it is because they cannot master that fear or because they have never had their mettle tested, that is when fear becomes your chains. They hold you down, fill you with terror.
Do not deny yourself fear. But do not let your fear master -you-. Every soldier on a battlefield had felt that fear. But they do not let it chain them down. I’ve felt it before. A warning to tell me I am in danger, who is more dangerous than I am.
When you feel that fear try to take hold it is difficult to shake. But everytime you fight your fear you grow stronger. When you grip your daggers or continue to walk on the battlefield. When you cross blades and magic with your unknown foes. I turn that fear into anger. How DARE they fight against me and my cause? Love and your cause will also help you. I fight for Quel’thalas and that bond between my home and people and myself is strong.
I want to survive, to show my enemies I should be feared, to get the peaceful future for our home and people so much. There’s many who deserve that future. Through fighting, purging corruption- I think maybe someday I’ll find it.
I don’t know why I write this. Perhaps I feel some responsibility for you children. For Kassandra,Alexandra, and Samiel and the others that remain a possibility. Perhaps this is how i make up for the motherly instinct that I do not have. By giving you these words when you are older so that you have some comfort. Some idea that, even though I lack the instinct of a parent, I cared for you in some manner.
For whatever it’s worth. Until such a day as you get this it will remain hidden under Thallus’s bed with my bag. I do not desire to head to the city now and here, in a home of memories I am safe as Thallus grumps in another room.
But that, children, is a story for another time.
Stay good, be kind, love the people who would die for you, respect the wisdom others give but take it with salt. Do not give up your freedom. Fight for your people and home but do not be needlessly cruel. I would rather you all grow up kind than cruel with a black heart. Do not let bitterness consume you as I was consumed.Fear but do not let it control you.
These are all such simple words on paper. But I do not know what else to impart to you. I hope when you are all given this and read it you understand I wanted you all to be as good as the people who raised you.
Except me. Somebody has to be a bitch.
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