[This is an ongoing chapter a week story that began with the first Words for Wednesday for 2025 on 1 January. I'm hoping to continue it through 31 December, the last Wednesday of the year. To start from the beginning, click on the Words for Wednesday 2025 label to the right and it will pull up all of the weekly posts, beginning with the most recent. To start from the beginning, continue to click "Older Posts" at the bottom of the page until you get to 1 January 2025, then click "Newer Posts" to read the next date. You can thank Blogger for the inability to list them by chronological order under the labels.]
"Don't let how easy the walk has been thus far give you a false sense of security, Thalion. There are challenges ahead that you need to be prepared for. Consider yourself my student as I prepare you for what is ahead, and the invasions that put you on this path. While I never knew my father, or my siblings, I would encourage you to take heed of what I show you in your dreams. The life I had with my mother was at times difficult, and we struggled frequently to find safe housing, I have no regrets for not growing up in the splendor that my siblings knew. If anything, it gave me a much broader spectrum of knowledge for what the people and the land truly need in a leader.
If it were not for the coming of The Grimma again, and the evil of a particular man-kind who views life as some kind of gaud to be possessed and destroyed, I would not have presumed to send you on this quest. But throughout the moil and centuries since my own passing, there have been none more worthy than yourself to bring peace and union to the land.
Pore on what I will share with you as you journey towards your goal, for I gladly share my experiences and knowledge with you.
But first, let me introduce myself so that you may call me something more than 'the voice' or 'the heir' for you, young Master Thalion, are the true heir.
My name is Vondran, and when I was a young man, I had straw yellow hair, the same as yours."
I am very happy Vondran has spoken up so clearly, Thal has a difficult enough time ahead without having to decipher everything from clues and hints.
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