Sometimes you can't be who you want to be and sometimes you can't do what you want to do.

That is the daily life of our anti-heroine. She is over powered with innate and learned magics and abilities but she does not have them to use them. she has them because she was born with them and she learns quickly. 

for her it is about acquisition not utilization. She wants to have power to understand power but she doesn't want to serve and protect. 

but it is out of her hands because she is Rachel, the Milana of Trannisa realm. her purpose is to maintain a balance dictated by the realm.

she is there when she has to be and when she is not needed she is off learning new things. 

so what happens when she is suddenly needed all the time? will her habit of avoidance become a mask of doubt and insecurity. 

so will she be a flawed being and pass the torch or will she endure in self doubt and constant insecurity. 

or is there a third option that has been there all along and completely out of her control?

The Dreamwalking event started out interestingly. The first competitor entered the dream of three dream slips but perhaps got over confident because the third slip suddenly awoke and had to be lulled back to sleep.


Dreamwalkers had to be able to walk an entity's dream and not wake them out of their sleep. They should be able to manipulate, control, drive, and even create the dreams of others. There were many talismans, potions, herbs, and even trinkets that could help an individual go undetected in the dream of another. 


Hazel thought about each and prepared herself as the competitors had their turns.


"Look at her. She is so smug! She thinks that she will win this."


Chapter 258 - Trusting a weak process