Liminality: The First Ordeal Begins

My first ordeal was to be the Emotional/Spiritual Challenge. It is the one to be given by the initiate's most trusted. And the hope that those that are feral do not succumb and be lost forever. If that happens... to me... Maxell will be obliged... to kill me. I hope he does. I would not want to live out my life like that. I hope more... that I am not lost.

Maxell took me onto his ship and then caught me off guard by suddenly injecting me with a drug to knock me out. His last words were *trust... never forget that I love you*.