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Hey all, afraid I have bad news. Things are getting busy for me lately and I'm afraid I'm gonna have to drop out before we get too far along. Hope y'all understand! Hope you guys have fun!
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5 Days' Hike West of Raleigh

The sun was just rising over the wide, empty fields, reflecting off the morning’s dew. Amos was wide awake and he walked down a muddy, unpaved road. His feet sloshed through the mud as he pulled himself alongside his trusty walking stick. His pack was strapped firmly to his back and his boots tightly bound to his feet. Sloshing, sloshing, sloshing. Amos didn’t seem to mind the noise he made as he trudged along the empty dirt road. Eventually Amos came across a trailhead; he stopped for a second to look at the map posted there. With his finger he traced along the protective Plexiglas to find the route he would take to the edge of the lake nearby.

In less than half an hour he reached his goal, he stooped down alongside a creek, rest his pack against a tree stump, and sat down alongside it. Amos leaned back his head and took a long breath, letting the smell of the pine trees flood his senses. Deep breaths in and deep breaths out. He closed his eyes to focus, to meditate. In that moment nothing moved besides his own chest, in and out, slowly but surely, and the nearby creek, babbling and bubbling beside him. Its cool water flowed over perfectly smooth rocks, weathered away by the force of the river. The brook flows and flows from its spring in the west into the rivers and oceans in the east. It is unstoppable but not unchanging.

Quite the opposite, the brook might not always flow the same way but it is constant in that it flows, it is living. A sapling, young and spry, can be manipulated in many different shapes, but when it is old and dying it hardens up and becomes unmalleable. Flexibility is the key to living, Amos noted. All things which live must be able to change or they will be crushed by a force far greater than they are. Like the stone in the river, the hardest person will be chipped away at by the never ending flow of time. But if a person, like a tree, can sway and bend a little to the winds of change they too can remain whole.

Amos opened his journal and jotted down his meditations with an old pencil before flipping open his old Bible in front of him. He recited from the Book of Matthew, before noting the chapter in his journal as well:

“Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. But if God so clothes the grass of the field, which today is alive and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of little faith? Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.”

When he had finished he closed both books, tucked them away in his pack and removed a bag filled with lean meat which he had cooked the night prior. He bit into the cold meat and swallowed it back. It was tough, chewy, and almost flavorless. Amos, however, didn’t seem to mind. When he had finished his breakfast he threw his pack on again and strapped it down tight. He took up his walking stick and returned back to the trailhead before walking back down the road.

“Guide me Lord,” he said out-loud, “Take me to where you need me to be.”

And with that Amos was off, walking along the muddy road alone, searching for a sign that he’s in the right place. But as of yet, he had not found any.
Hey guys! Just a heads up that I am working on a post but it's slowly coming.
So I think I got a pretty decent character fleshed out!
Hello everyone! I'm assuming there's still room for one more? This looks really neat and I'd like to join.
This sounds pretty interesting, I'll draw up a character too.
Apologies, all. But something's come up and I don't think that I'll be able to post regularly enough so I think I'll be dropping out before we get started. Have fun, though! I might come back to read some more.
@Cold If you're still interested, I play Yronwood and I could take a minor Martell into the household.
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