A search for Guidance

[Dracanium 78]

In the beginning, there was a child. A girl that was born without sight. Her name, Amdreea Jovanović. She had a brother and a loving family that helped her around while she grew up. Until one day their parents passed away. By then it was just her and the Brother and only then the struggle began. Her brother would take care of them both, but they were hardly getting by. All the young woman could do was Sit and think.. Whilst the brother worked for them, both. 

 

Then one night, cold and windy. The young woman found herself alone… For longer than normal. As her brother did not return by the time he would normally have. She waited and waited and thought to herself “I cannot just sit here for any longer, I must prove I can be of some use!” Sick of waiting she found her way outside after grabbing a coat and some boots. Lastly she found her hand to a cane to guide her through the night.. “I’ll just ask around the town. Surely someone has to know SOMETHING” she mutters to herself.  And so she went into the night in search of her brother.. She ventured for what seemed like but a moment… But minutes turned to hours..  And everyone she had met on the roads had not known where her brother was.  Eventually she found herself in a place she had never been before, and having no sight.. She easily got lost. Amdreea would eventually find herself in a dark forest, not knowing how late it was or that she was now within a forest and its dangers… She calmly continued her journey. 

 

“HELLO?” Andreea shouts “ANYONE? BOGDAN?” The howling of wolves filled the cold air, scaring the woman briefly as she stopped on the path for a moment... It was by now almost the middle of the night, there was nobody to help her, and she began to cry to herself as she started to realize she was lost.. “Why?.. Why?.. I should have just sat at home and waited” 

 

As she wept, it was clearer and clearer; she was doomed to die, but even in the darkest of depths a light can clear the path. What could she do? She began to pray, her family belongs to canon but she prayed to whoever listened, and hoped for guidance, “Even in the darkest of times, your presence shines upon the darkest of nights…” The woman trembled out her words, praying upon GODAN first, her first instinct at such a time, yet soon she continued. Not only did she speak to him, but all that which surrounded her- the spirits which her ancestors followed and anything further out there “To whoever… please… aid me, be my light that leads me out of this accursed place, I want to see my brother, my parents, let me get back to them once more…” Her tears streamed down her face as she spoke, her voice ever still trembling in fear and desperation for any form of aid which might have come… for what else could she do?  

 

Eventually she found a tree beside which she went to rest.. And eventually fell asleep.. A restless slumber, one where even then she was still searching for help or guidance..