Status Updates From A Castle Contended (Castle ...

One final quote:
“But how can I know whether I can really make anything better?”
“You cannot know. Hope has no need to predict the future because it makes the future.”

Quoting an unplanned line that still calls to me:
What, exactly, Beth could do for her, she didn’t know, but she started by sitting beside her, still and quiet.

When I started writing this scene, I didn't know how Beth could help a hurting soul who lived in a world so different from her own. She didn't figure it out until after she sat there, silently present. Sometimes that is what we need to do.

Another quote:
Realization dawned, like sunlight penetrating a haze. It wasn’t just that she was leaving the foreign lord who loved her. A few weeks ago, she had left home as a child—and now returned as a woman. She was foreign to herself.

Another quote:
"I will not cast aside a diamond because it has a flaw."

Quoted from a former king in this land: "There are as many sides to each country as there are to each person. The darkness of one side does not cancel the light shining from the others."

Here is an idea of what Beth sees when she enters Tower Woods.
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The first novel was Tristan's story. This one is Beth's. She must step into her destined role...which is quite different than she expected.