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Aurora’s World: Haerith: Xavia: Making a Decision (part 5)
“So what’s the next step?” Cyrus asked, after a long tense silence, as they all seemed to realise what it meant if Xavia did what they needed her to do.
“That depends,” Randolf replied. “We can make our decision without Xavia breaking down any of the walls that were created, apart from those what will come down naturally, because it’s not information that will necessarily make it easier. If we find out that our families are dead, that Haerith has been taken over by invaders, and that if we go out there there might well be prices on all of our heads due to what we are – it’s not as though we hid it.” He shrugged. “To be honest I think we have no choice. Staying here means we’ll starve to death, no matter what. Learning more about the situation we find out there might mean that we’re better prepared for it, but it won’t change anything – whatever happened out there will still have happened.”
Xavia nodded. “If we can make a choice without me going hunting for answers I would appreciate it, although I do understand the want to know. There’s been a part of me that keeps telling me just to go for it, to break down the walls and find out why Father hasn’t come to get us, but I’ve been ignoring it. Right now I’m not sure that I want to know, because I think it means he’s dead, and I don’t want him to be dead, don’t want the King to be dead, don’t want to think that our home has been taken over by people who think that magic is too dangerous to exist, but that is probably what’s happened. Otherwise Father would be here, to get us out of here.”
“Do you truly believe that?” Suvi sounded unsure. “I can’t help but think this is a test. They’ve waiting to see what we do and expect us to make a decision based on all of the information we have available…” She shook her head. “As the majority of it is trapped in your head, Xavia, that technically is not information that we have available to us at this time, and therefore I wouldn’t include that.”
“Without that information what do we know?” Hadar sighed. “I know much less than I’d like to for making this sort of decision, because leaving the only place we know for certain is safe seems to be a huge mistake and yet it’s illogical to stay here when we know we’re running out of food and won’t be getting any more.”
“Like I said neither option is good.” Xavia bit her lip. “Going out there knowing that there are probably people who want to kill us around doesn’t make sense to anyone here, but at the moment we’re still strong enough to run or fight, depending on what seems to be the best option, so the longer we put it off the harder it will be for us to do anything when we’re out there.” She shrugged. “There is always a third option, although it isn’t one that I like.”
Mirrored from K. A. Webb Writing.
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