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Journey to Breac The Question |
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Journey to Breac The Question |
May 22, 2003
If I ever want to stand before the council and try for my key I need to make the rounds of the winds and be sure that I have the support I need. I have visited Liath and am choosing to skip Ban for the moment which then takes me to Breac (if I proceed clockwise). I make the sign of Breac (left ring finger (Venus), hooked by right little finger (Mercury), knuckles touching, palms down) and find myself at the entrance hall of the auditorium. As usual things are bustling. Breac doesn't tend to be a quite place. I spent many years there between the ages of 8 and 17 and then left until I was in my thirties.
Strange to find myself gawking like a tourist; there are posters for the next plays and concerts posted along the auditorium wall and I'm curious as to how things have changed since my day. I barely take a step when I feel a hand on my elbow.
"Fili Freya?" A lilting voice asks from behind me.
"Don't tell me I was expected?" I turn toward the voice to see a raven haired beauty smiling at me. "I wasn't even sure when I would get here myself."
"I know, the Masters have actually been expecting you for days. If you follow me I'll take you to them."
We headed toward through a door way at the side of the entrance hall. I knew from experience that the Masters kept a public office on the third floor, which is where I assumed we were headed. "Thank you ....?"
"Oh, it's Marie, and before you ask I write and sing songs and I've been here for 6 years. I love it here. Didn't you when you were here? I was accepted as an apprentice last year and I hope to be Seanachai by the time I'm 21 if I can perform enough to convince them I know my craft. Kelly will definitely be a Seanachai , but her mother got her into commercials when she was three."
"That's a great goal. I didn't make Seanachai until I was in my 30s and didn't make Fili until I was in my 40s. Don't be too hard on yourself if things don't happen as quickly as you hope."
Marie gave me a look that implied I simply didn't understand the impatience of youth and I almost burst out laughing. I not only understood her feelings I but had been worse in my own day and was only slightly better now some thirty years later. We walked up the stairs in silence for the first flight and then her naturally ebullient personality reasserted itself.
"So why did it take you so long?"
"Because I was doing other things instead. You might find that there are other things that interest you in the next few years. Life is like that. Especially for us air heads."
"I've heard that, but I don't intend to lose my focus. Otherwise I know I won't be successful and I'll never become a Seanachai." She said as we walked up the second flight of stairs.
"Good for you" I said. I knew it was no accident that Marie had been chosen to escort me to the Masters. Part of answering the question is knowing where we've come from and how we've chosen to get to our current state of affairs. Marie served the purpose of challenging me to answer the question of why I had waited so long to dedicate myself to developing the craft of the bard when I know it has always been important to me. But this is one case where I know the answer. It is the same answer that I gave them in Erc. I served my Lady first and followed my own desires only when time and circumstances allowed. It isn't that she would have any objection to my choosing to walk the path of a bard; only that it couldn't have been done at the expense of the path she had laid out before me.
Marie was just about to knock on the doorway in the middle of the third floor corridor when I stopped her. "Marie, I can't meet the Masters right now. There is something I have to do before I do this."
With that said I quickly made the finger sign for Owl Works Inc (Left middle finger and left ring finger hooked by right little finger) and left to pay what I now believe is a long over due visit.