Coatleque scoffed once more at being called 'wretch' before backing off to the opposite corner. She also slid down against the wall to sit and draped one arm over a knee as she regarded the woman across from her.
"Perhaps not all that you hear is true. In the same way not all that you are told is false either. How much of your precious learning were you given by someone whom you were told to believe without question as if they were infallible in their own presumptions?
What has happened is that the Twelve gave me clarity of purpose when I had nothing else in this world. There was a time when I was no better off than those outside the walls. I had resigned myself to death yet it would not come. It was in those darker days that I discovered the true talents Rhalgr and Halone had blessed me with and devoted my life to the service of another.
I do not sneer at the less fortunate as you think I do. I sneer at you, and those like you. Those who think blind charity and well meaning words with enough false hope will truly change anything for them. I had none of those when I was in their position, yet I suffered through it just the same. And when Nymeia and Althyk conspired that it was enough, that is when my torment ended - not a moment sooner.
You would do well to learn such humility yourself, I think. Perhaps that is why they saw fit to cast you from your 'clouds' as it were to our little shite-hole, as you so called it."
With that she closed her eyes, resting her head back in the corner where the walls met and awaited the inevitable angry rebuttal.
"Perhaps not all that you hear is true. In the same way not all that you are told is false either. How much of your precious learning were you given by someone whom you were told to believe without question as if they were infallible in their own presumptions?
What has happened is that the Twelve gave me clarity of purpose when I had nothing else in this world. There was a time when I was no better off than those outside the walls. I had resigned myself to death yet it would not come. It was in those darker days that I discovered the true talents Rhalgr and Halone had blessed me with and devoted my life to the service of another.
I do not sneer at the less fortunate as you think I do. I sneer at you, and those like you. Those who think blind charity and well meaning words with enough false hope will truly change anything for them. I had none of those when I was in their position, yet I suffered through it just the same. And when Nymeia and Althyk conspired that it was enough, that is when my torment ended - not a moment sooner.
You would do well to learn such humility yourself, I think. Perhaps that is why they saw fit to cast you from your 'clouds' as it were to our little shite-hole, as you so called it."
With that she closed her eyes, resting her head back in the corner where the walls met and awaited the inevitable angry rebuttal.
