For #LineByLineTime : Difficult Scenes

“They get to make choices, but we don’t?” Nita snarled. “We just get to be pawns in whatever weird little game you’re playing, huh?”

“This is no little game.”

The hair on the teens’ arms stood up and they stiffened as they felt power flow around them again.

“This is no game at all. This world balances on a tipping point. Rising Sun and Adoracion are battling to push it into chaos and darkness, where evil is a way of life and the innocent suffer endlessly. You are hardly pawns. Only you four have the talents, skills, and most importantly, the determination to win so that peace and order can prevail. The future of this world lies in your hands. The choices you have made before now brought you here. The choices you have made since are proof you are the best chance this world has to survive.”

There was silence as the teens digested this. Their faces showed their doubts, disbelief, and in Nita’s, anger still.