the dark settles in and the trial begins

"Then perhaps we not be as at odds as previously thought, Shadow. You have my repsect on a many of things. Yet, I have faltered, and let my past rule my present, though it is for the better."

The aged man turned toward the remaining rays of the sun, his hazel and amber eyes glistening in the last resorts of light.

"We all have fates. What we chose may alter them only alittle, but it seems mine is set in stone."