Walking the Pattern is Not Like a Walk in the Park
Eventually, Brigid needed to walk the Pattern. She felt like she had to walk it to become a true child of Amber.
But walking the Pattern is not easy, even for the Children of Dworkin. It is a serious test of will and endurance, but it does have its rewards, as she discovered when patting the First Veil. There she remembered her first memories of her father as he left her at the orphanage.
But the Final Veil, the one directly before reaching the center of the Pattern, proved impossible. By that time, she had nothing left: she was completely drained, all of her reserves dry. That’s when the gamemaster asked what she would do.
It was one of those times when the character came forward to say what needed to be said.
Brigid said that she was going about walking the Pattern all wrong. Because of her Amber blood, the Pattern was a part of her, and she was a part of the Pattern. How could she fight a part of herself? Instead of fighting it, she surrendered to it, accepting it and taking it into her heart. Its a central part of her personality, accepting and caring instead of confronting and challenging. Besides, she always felt her heart was large enough to contain all of existence, and this proved it.
She doesn’t remember what happened then, or how she crossed the final steps from the Final Veil into the center of the Pattern, or even if she ever did. All she knows is that she was next in the center of the Pattern, with all the rights that act entailed. There she tried to go to Faerie to see her father, but Faerie was beyond the power of the Pattern, so she returned to Amber and continued her life there, but she still tried to create ways to see her father.
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