Hunter's Woods Writing Prompts

   Amara and Emery don't quite see eye to eye on... well, quite a few things, if we're being honest. But easily their largest point of contention is in reference to the deities and their respective discipleships. Amara, for her part, is continuing to train beneath the gods, in spite of her concerns that her mentor has already selected somebody else as their successor - She wants to believe that she can still prove her worth, and perhaps the dragon will reconsider, or at least offer her a place elsewhere in the pantheon. This life is all she knows, and the gods and her follow disciples are her family, or at least the only family she remembers any more; she needs to be able to find a place within their ranks. It's her duty, her destiny.
   Emery, on the other hand, no longer holds such faith in the gods. He abandoned his training for a reason, after all; as far as he's concerned, the deities cursed him with powers that are extremely destructive and require intense focus to control, and then denied him his role, leaving him little more than a husk. They refused him both the life of a deity and the life of a mortal... They're little more than petty, fickle beings who care not for the lives they would destroy with their actions. Why, just look at the god he was training to take the place of, before they were reborn! That god went to war with another, and they dragged countless mortals, not only from their own realm, but from others - Oh, the rage he felt when Beatrix and Mitko told him that story - into their mess to fight their battles for them. Amara can trust in them all she likes - She'll learn eventually that her goals and her gods were never righteous, like he did.
   Still, they rarely ever quarrel on this topic - Emery knows better than to do that. He may disagree with her viewpoint, but he needs to remain civil. Because Amara is training a god of her own, and he needs to stay on that god's good side, and in turn, he needs to stay on Amara's good side as well. Because when Berkeley comes into their own, they might be the best shot he has at either finally reaching the life of godhood that he was promised, or returning to the mortal life he lost.