Text; Katie.Cakes

[littlemisskate]

I've been thinking a lot about how this place could be seen as a second chance. I wanted to ask... what would you do with that second chance? I know a lot of people want to find their way home but if you didn't, what then?

[She knows that it's an intrusive question and that maybe no one will respond but she's curious.]

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text; un: d.pavus

[tevinteraltus]

Make the most of it, I suppose. That is, of course, assuming everyone here needed said chance.

Is it you feel you do?

[littlemisskate]

I've been going back and forth. I used to believe that everything happened for a reason and that God's love would get us through whatever we faced. Now, I'm not so sure. Things didn't end the way I thought they would and now I'm here. It's easy to feel lost.

[tevinteraltus]

Ah, I see. I'm not particularly religious, but...what's to say this isn't what this God of yours intended? The Chantry says the Maker works in mysterious ways, and it would serve to reason our Big Picture varies from His, wouldn't it, seeing as he can see much more of it?

[littlemisskate]

They say that God works in mysterious ways too. I don't know, maybe you're right and I just can't see it.

Though that means that I should try and return home too. To follow the path that he had intended for me.

[tevinteraltus]

That is assuming 'God' only created your universe and not all.

Assuming He did, in fact, create everything, as did the Maker (whom I'm beginning to believe is simply this God, only by a different name), then this place is also His creation.

Assuming this, it serves to reason this is the path he intended for you, that this isn't a "second chance" so much as "what comes after".

[littlemisskate]

It does sound like God and the Maker are the same though I don't know what stories you have surrounding him and his miracles. A lot of people see God in different ways. I don't think that any one way is wrong. God is meant to forgive and inspire. As long as that is the case, then I think how you worship and love him doesn't matter.

He might be the creator of all worlds or just my own. It's hard to tell since this is my first time outside of my world. I only know what I've seen and the stories and lesions from the bible. The bible is our religious text. It tells us how God would want us to live and treat others. He teaches us through his actions and the actions of others.

I want to believe that this is 'what comes after' but I don't know. Maybe I've lost my hope, my faith.
I still think that God is there, looking after us, but maybe not me. Maybe there isn't any love left in the world. I don't want to believe it but lately its felt more like a possibility.

[tevinteraltus]

Not unlike the Chant of Light, then, though the Maker's teachings are shown to us through his prophet, Andraste. Our actions are to prove our worth to Her, that she might convince the Maker we are worthy of His love.

This? You want this to be what comes after?

Ah, that's a tad fatalistic, isn't it? An almighty divine being wouldn't love all His creations save one. If He isn't there, He isn't there for anyone, not only you.

[littlemisskate]

This isn't what I wanted to come after. I could have never dreamed this up.

Though you are right about one thing. If there is love, then there is love for everyone. Thank you. It's silly, I know, but I think I needed to hear it.

[tevinteraltus]

Then perhaps it isn't, after all, and this really is that second chance you're hoping for.

It's very easy for us to feel we're singled out by fate, or some such. We aren't, typically. We make silly decisions and end up in strange situations, and what defines us isn't fate, or destiny. It's choice. We have that, don't we, the Maker's second children? What we choose to do with that choice is what defines us, and our significance.

[littlemisskate]

It's hard to know but I believe in his love. Maybe not destiny or some greater journey but I believe that he loves all of his children.

That's enough for me.

[tevinteraltus]

Do you also believe that all may be His children, regardless of world? I...believe I do. Believe, that is.

[littlemisskate]

I do.

[tevinteraltus]

And I believe that He's out there, and that He wouldn't let us go on existing if He didn't have some sort of concern for the lot of us. Assuming He also created everywhere, then maybe you were meant to be here as much as I.