Courage for the Cowardly

[Devon]

"I haven't quite decided yet," Eros admitted. "Right now I just follow Soahc as well as Love, I'm from New Anarlina."

[Kender Bard]

"Oh, what's it like there?" Taty asked curiously as she took a sedate pace around the tall shelves of books, scrolls, and loose parchment. "I'm from Autus, myself."

[Devon]

Eros glanced around the library, occasionally picking up a book and flipping through it before putting it back on the shelf. "Its a very nice place, beautiful scenery," the priest told the woman. "And it isn't as boring as people might think, there is even a healthy wing of Soahcians in the Anarlinan temple."

[Kender Bard]

"Good!" Taty enthused. "It's always uplifting to hear our corruption is being spread far and wide. What path is dominant in Anarlina? If any."

[Devon]

"I'd have to say the Lustful get the most action," Eros replied not meaning to make such a silly joke. "Anarlina is the nation of Love and lust is a part of Love as well, so they stay busy in the Soahcian wing."

[Kender Bard]

"That pleases them I imagine," Taty responded with equally bad taste. "I know there's a large group of Proud in Khelek, Greed in Ilyamen, and Wrathful in Maelstrom but I'm a bit hazy on the rest."

[Devon]

"Well you can count the Lustful in Anarlina," Eros told her. "Is there any place that the Curious might call their own outside of Flux?"

[Kender Bard]

"Oh yes, now that you bring it up, Sensatia is their favorite place," Taty agreed. "With all those scholars and book-types, it's the next best thing to moving into Mentis. Though, I might add, a number of priests have sought to do that. It's so boring there, though, that most don't stay long."

[Devon]

"So while Cowards are afraid of things, they still need the excitement, that most Soahcian's feel from being so chaotic?"

[Kender Bard]

"We are all Soahc's children," Taty agreed as she led him out of the library and down another way. "We all need to see change in the world. Just because our fears are constant doesn't mean we want everything else to be. It's one of the few points I think all Soahcians agree on, wouldn't you say?"

[Devon]

Eros thought about what it was she had said and smiled before nodding in return. "Yes I agree with that. That is a very insightful answer there Taty."

[Kender Bard]

"I have no spine, I don't lack for a brain," was the wry retort. "Where would you like to see? We're coming up to a crossroads of sort that leads to several areas in the temple."

[Devon]

"Its my first time here," Eros replied to Taty. "I was lost when I wound up in your area, I wouldn't know what to go and see. Any suggestions?"

[Kender Bard]

"Well each Path has its own hall for the most part," Taty explained. "There's the library which you just saw, the kitchen, the children's quarters, the jail, the Touched One's quarters, the altar room, and that's about it. Oh and the laboratory but that doubles as part of the Curious' home I believe."

[Devon]

"Hm the lab sounds pretty interesting," Eros said. "You wouldn't be afraid to go there would you?"