Before the gods, nothing matters save what you may create for yourself.

It does not matter what you are to do, she said, just as softly. What you are is something different. That is what you have to learn.

Even if you think it wicked and shameful, would you pretend to know what is right for another? Even the wise cannot know everything, and perhaps the Gods have more purposes than we in our little knowledge, can see.

A life path may have strange twists and turnings, and we do not always end up where we intend to go....

Beware what you speak,' said the Merlin very softly, 'for indeed the words we speak make shadows of what is to come, and by speaking them we bring them to pass, my king.