I felt a tingling sense of peace descend upon me as I prayed for the others, which calmed my spirit about tomorrow's troubles.
As an afterthought I added, "Thank you for the time I did have with my mother. She tried to teach me about You, but I'm afraid I didn't pay much attention. I regret that! If You would consider teaching me about Yourself again in some way I would really appreciate it!"
The night air was still and quiet. No answer. Remembering my mother, I thought of how some of her prayers weren't answered right away either. She had said that it was up to the Creator, if He chose to do what was asked of Him, but the important thing when waiting for an answer was to be faithful and keep praying. Maybe an answer would come in the morning, hopefully in time for my date with the arena. I wasn't nearly as confident of surviving the first round as I had led Treorna to believe that I was. Moving over to the cell wall I leaned up against it, as I had many times in the past, and went to sleep almost instantly.
The darkness in the cell started to glow slightly and like a warm wave it washed over Roric repeatedly as he slept, and it kept the dark memories and insecurities that wanted to intrude his sleeping mind at bay all through the night.
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"Roric."
"Yes, mother?"
"Time for your study of the Holy Words"
"Mother, can't we do that later?"
"Roric you will find out that in life you can't always put things off to a later time and have everything still workout right."
"Then maybe we can skip study time for a third time and that will be once and for all! Ouch! Alright, I'm ready!"
"Sit down over there Roric. As I've told you before we only have remnants of the Book that the Creator wrote, but those remnants that we do still have can help us to live a righteous and pleasing life. A life that honors our Creator and that serves His purposes."
"It always seems like we have to do everything for the Creator. What does He do for us?"
"He did everything for us Roric. When Adam and Eve sinned in the beginning on the first world He could have washed His hands of us and we would have all been doomed to everlasting death, but He didn't leave it like that. He gave us His Holy Word and even sent His son to die for us that we might have life for evermore, if we believe."