"Odette Navarre, you are hereby stripped of your Paladin rights in the Order of Bahamut The Platinum Dragon and banished." The Head of the Order, Victor Hears voice echos through her mind as she is pushed off the carriage.

She lay in the caverns of the Underdark exhausted and starving as she has been wandering around for days after getting herself out of the river, hiding in the shadows as she hides her tears. "I thought I did what's right, I thought I had the answers."

Odette Navarre had been training that day, readying herself to take her right of passage to become captain in the Order. Lady Kima had told her she made it to the top ten with her brothers and sisters and seems to have a chance if she kept up her paste but...

"I thought I chose the surest road." she whimpers, sitting up slowly. "But that road brought me here."

Flashes of Odette being held at court for crimes she didn't commit, looking to her mentors, brothers, and sisters for aid but only found either sneers or guilty looks as they look away. She kneeled in front of the elders of Order shirtless as she is whipped for her treason, sitting in the dark cell with only mice to talk to.

"So I put up a fight and told you how to help me." She looks down at her holy symbol, clutched in her hands. "Now just when I have given up... the truth is coming clear."

She stands up, legs shaking as she leans against the wall making her way in the dark, and bless she had dark vision. "You know better than I, you know the way. I've let go of the need to know why for you know better than I."

Her being shoved out of a carriage and left with her armor and sword in the dark woods.

"If this has been a test." She shakes her head. "I cannot see the reason, but maybe knowing I don't know is part of getting through."

She sees her former self making it into the Halfling village, meeting the Elders there as they look at her with mistrust then her taking on many bandits and beasts who have been hurting the people of the land to her leaning against a tree with her eyes closed.

"I try to do what's best to do what's best and faith has made it easy." She trips over a rock but catches herself before she landed in a lava pit. "To see the best thing I can do is put my trust in you."

After a couple of hours in the cavern, she turns the corner and hides immediately as duergar rush by muttering in urgency as they went.

"You know better than I, you know the way." she closes her eyes and prays that they do not see her. "I've let go of the need to know why for you know better than I."

She is back in the forest but this time in a clearing looking up at the sky with a smile on her face as she races against an eagle that swooped by her.

"I saw one cloud and thought it was the sky, I saw a bird and that that I could follow but it was you who taught that bird to fly, if I let you reach me will you reach me?" She stares at the symbol and moves forward, full of new determination.

Lady Kima, her old mentor, her best friend is in this place somewhere along with her comrades, she cannot quit now, not now.

"For you know better than I, you know the way. I've let go of the need to know why I'll take what answers you supply."

In what feels like days, Odette leans against the wall exhausted once more, hot from the lava heat.

"You know better than I."

but she will not give up... not yet.