The Raven Queen by D.K. Holmberg

Author:D.K. Holmberg [Holmberg, D.K.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2023-02-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 19

SOPHIE

Another steady rumbling echoed through the forest, and Sophie jolted awake. She looked over to see Nevarn with his legs crossed in front of him, his face screwed up in concentration. He had been watching her.

“What are you doing?” she asked.

“Seeing as you have the ability to sleep anywhere, I thought I would try to figure out what point you wanted to make with your story.”

The rumbling persisted, shaking the ground. Sophie waited for lightning, but there was nothing.

The rain had stopped. The wind wasn’t nearly as forceful as it had been before, either. She released the gilan pose and leaned back against the tree trunk, looking at Nevarn.

“Did you figure it out?”

Nevarn shifted. “You wanted me to know that the story depends upon the point of view.” He smiled as if he had accomplished a great feat in divining some truth. “I figured it out after what you told me last night. You said that your nana never told you much about the thieves, and that you had decided that the thieves must have been working with Edgar. That means that you wanted me to know that Edgar isn’t the hero of the story. The thieves are. I wasn’t sure what you were trying to get at, but I think I understand it now. You’ve been warning me about this all along, telling me that the hero is always the hero of their own story.”

This was a different perspective from Sophie’s when she’d been muddling through the meaning of the story.

“If that’s your truth, then it’s the meaning of the story,” Sophie said.

She got to her feet and went over to Joralt to untie his reins from the tree.

“What do you mean? That is the truth of the story. It has nothing to do with my truth.”

“That’s what I was telling you. Everyone hears what they need to hear from a story. In your case, you needed to hear that each person is always the hero of their own story.”

That wasn’t even a terrible message to take from this tale. She thought about what Nana might have thought had she come to her with that answer to this puzzle, but in the case of this story, Sophie had already learned that everyone was the hero in their own tale. That was something that Nana had made a point of getting her to understand very early on in her stories.

“Well?” Nevarn asked, hurrying over to her. “If that’s not the point of the story, or at least, the point of the story you wanted me to know, then what is the point?”

“The point of the story is what I told you. You need to take from it what you need.”

“You’re not going to get away with not telling me.”

“What is there to tell you?” Sophie turned toward him. “That’s not what matters. The only thing that really matters is knowing that the story means something different to you than it does to me. Even better, your truth is no less true than mine.

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