It Wasn't a Dream

"Careful the last time he woke up from a dream he thought himself a god." Valrym was really helping me out with my small group of remaining alive friends (so Hanlon and uhhh Hanlon, man has it really come to that? Good lords).

"Did he now? Well it wouldn't be the first time someone falsely declared themself a god after a dream." Hanlon kind of left that one hanging, because he's Hanlon the master of allusions to other things he never explains. I got to my feet, and had to steady myself I had been out of it for a while.

"I'm not a god."

"Well I'm glad he let go of that delusion." Val walked off and Hanlon put his hand on my shoulder.

"You say that like something changed."

"I failed my test. I can't be a God." He got a quizzical look on his face.

"Test? What kind of test could there be for a god?"

"The Fire God got me out of prison and threw me into a pit where I had to face my fears, I failed, and then I woke up here. Now my magic is trapped inside of myself by vengeance, but I'm not honoring that either." Hanlon laughed.

"Your lawyer Maury Mcmurphy got you out of prison, and then he said you passed out on the way home probably from the cold. As far as your powers Trezlan that's all in your head you have a mental block preventing you from using your power until you think you have crossed some magical vengeance threshold, the magic is still inside you." I didn't exactly believe Hanlon, but when I tried a little bit of fire magic it was there again. Perhaps it all had been in my head.

"So I'm not a god?"

"No, the feeling was just a super charge from being so close to the hand of the Fire God and the Fire God herself, you kind of got a god Buzz on, no worry about having to do some duty of being a vengeance god or something." I felt better if only a little bit empty. I thought for a moment there I had more to do in life than just live.

"Feeling kind of sad now."

"Well if it makes you feel any better if there was a test, if that's a big If you did just pass out, but if there was one, I'm sure it wouldn't be about facing ones fears and more about not following just because you were told to." And with that Hanlon left me. So I'm not a vengeance god probably, but for a brief moment I totally was! Though I was left with one question, who in the gods name was Maury Mcmurphy?