Virtue as Told By Gavin the Bard
Title: Virtue as Told By Gavin the Bard
Author: Arda Wilson
-Honesty-
When I was but a lad, my father and I were traveling from Trinsic. We came upon an old man and he did ask why we were upon the roads at such a late hour. I did whisper to my father that we best not tell him of our returning from Trinsic after a profitable sale of livestock and were carying with us much gold, But he did not heed my words, and told the man that we were returning home from such a large sale in Trinsic.
The man was impressed so greatly by my fathers honest words, that he offered to escort us to our home. When finally we did reach our destination, the man dropped the veil of magic that was upon him, and loe and behold twas Geoffry the captian of our Lord British's guard! He did tell us that since the departure of the Avatar he had wanted to see if the virtues were still in the hearts of the people of these lands and to such end he had an item of magical power that would tell of the honesty in a persons heart.
He did also state that had my father told not the truth, he would not have traveled, forth with us keeping the bandits at bay. So ends the tale of Honesty.
-Compassion-
When once I did live in Britian with my father, we did know of an old man whose good lady wife of many a year had passed on because of sickness from the plague. We did see one day that he sat upon his porch, and did see a small child walk up to him and sit upon his lap. The wee child did stay there all the day through.
When later his father asked what he had said to the man, the child did say,"Nothing, I did but help him to cry"
So ends the tale of Compassion
