“I’m feeling stronger.”
“Good. Yesterday you returned to your childhood. This is a good place for your lessons to begin. You obeyed me without question. This is also good.”
“I have more questions.”
“The time for questions has passed. The time for thinking has passed. Today is a day of testing.”
I remembered testing days. My teachers would ask questions about the lessons we had learned from the forest. Based upon our answers, we would be given greater responsibilities, or a wider range for our explorations. I nodded and sat up straighter. Somehow, I had become his apprentice without meaning to.
“How have you come here?”
I thought carefully. What answer would he be looking for? “By choice.” That sounded better than by horse.
“Whose choice?”
“My own.”
“The power of choice is immense.
