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Jan. 4th, 2008 @ 07:23 am [info]voicesinmyhead 023 - Do you believe in an Afterlife?
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023 - Do you believe in an Afterlife? What do you expect to find when you get there?


If this question had been asked of me in the past, I would have answered with a resounding no. Oh, in Camorlene we are taught all about a religion and what happens to us after death if we anger our god, but it was nothing that I could find a grain of honesty in. I never found a thread of belief to guide me along the path that everyone around me seemed to blindly follow.

Then something quite spectacular happened to me.

My horse, Hwin, started speaking, we met Shasta, I mean Cor, and his horse Bree, and we ran away to the land of Narnia.

Therein, I met Aslan.

After meeting and talking with Aslan, after seeing so many things around me, how could I not belief that there is another life beyond this one that we begin after we are finished here?

What do I expect to find there?

My mother.


Muse: Aravis Tarkheena
Fandom: "Chronicles of Narnia"
Words: 153
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Oct. 2nd, 2007 @ 06:48 am [info]voicesinmyhead -- Prompt 10 - My life would be better if...
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That is, perhaps, a kind of a loaded statement, as there are several things that might make my life better than what it is now or has been in the past.

Before I came to Archenland and Narnia, I would have said that freedom to choose my own destiny and be myself would make my life better -- and it has. I have Hwin, Cor (he will always be Shasta to me), and Bree. Cor and Corwin's father treats me as if I am one of his family. I have met High King Peter and his family. I have met Aslan. I have a real family, now. I am happier than I have been since my mother died. I am truly content.

Had I heard this question before I left Calormene, there would have been a long list of answers.

My life would be better if my mother was still alive, or if my father had never married, or if, or if, or if...

It's one of those things that you never seem to run out of answers for.

I choose to focus on the now, and not worry about the then.


Muse: Aravis Tarkheena
Fandom: Chronicles of Narnia
Words: 192
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Aug. 3rd, 2007 @ 11:16 pm Voices - Prompt One - Who Am I?
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My name is Aravis.

I used to be known as Aravis Tarkheena, or the Tarkheena and I come from Calormene. I have no desire to go back there, ever.

I live in Narnia now, and although sometimes Aslan still calls me Tarkeena or Little Tarkheena, he is the only one that is permitted to do so.

The way I came to Narnia was that my horse stopped me from killing myself and we travelled to her original home of Narnia. Hwin saved my life and she is indeed my best friend, and honestly always has been.

I guess you can say that I liked my life in Calormene just fine until my mother died and my father wed with that woman. That woman who convinced my father to arrange for me to marry a horrible man who was so many times my age. I was indeed going to end my life in my own way instead of committing myself to a long life of slow death as my stepmother had planned.

However, Hwin convinced me not to do that by putting her head between my knife and my chest.

We set out to travel and ended up travelling with Shasta and Bree. Shasta, who as it turns out is actually a prince and the next king of Archenland. He may be a prince, but he is still an infuriating young man. I wouldn't change that for anything -- though I may often say I wish he would be something different.

I may not really know who I am, but with a new start in Narnia and Archenland, I do believe I am free to discover who I am meant to be.


Muse: Aravis Tarkheena
Fandom: The Chronicles of Narnia
Words: 281
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