Greatwater Lake Everything was within his power, otherwise nothing would ever exist.

she smiles at his response, as her question was rhetorical, but his struggling to answer makes her heart swell.

it is not. hosannah responds. the decision, for her, had been easy. but then, the priesthood had always been there to guide her. the fact she was on this quest - and far from them - emboldened her. there had not been a seer of her caliber for many generations. to be placed on a path to righteousness and glory, to bring the light of the daystar to the attention of so many heathen lives, this was why she existed. had she not been born in to the world of the priesthood, hosannah knew her spirit would have withered and died. 

what prompts you to create? she asks of him; and while she is curious about the home he hopes to make, hosannah is more interested in what drives him. you ask strangers to join your cause, but do you have a cause at all? if survival was the only reason for his pack, then it would surely flourish as much as any other - but what set it apart? surely it would benefit from a higher power.