Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. - C. S. Lewis - The sword glinted in the sunlight, a beacon of light before what I knew would be a bloody day.

I'd walked away many times before and never looked back. I didn't want to see her standing at the open door watching, the curtains move slightly as she peered from within. I walked away. It was done -

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others. Pericles Come closer. I'd waited a long time to hear those words; they wouldn't have been