The Seer

'Oh, Timothy...'

She strolled thoughtfully along, several steps behind them, pondering his state and hers.

'Funny how our lives change. Funny how time marches onwards. Funny how...' she looked over to Eliezer and smiled, 'life isn't always as simple as we might anticipate, but... there is this longing in our hearts, a longing for more: more of your likeness, more of your purpose, and the revealing of that purpose brings us closer; closer to the people we were meant to be, closer to that for which we were made... closer to you. That's why, he has to understand, it's more than just discipline in believing; it's what we hold to in our hearts and that which we will never let go.'

She put her thoughts aside, turning her attention to the conversation going on ahead of her as they traveled down the broad dirt road to the Council Building.

"Still," Jordan was saying, "you didn't tell me he was your brother-in-law."

"That's because he isn't," Eliezer said, embarrassed.