We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa
Somehow she had managed to overcome every obstacle that had been thrown her way. She had pushed past the bullying, ignored the swear words directed at her and followed whatever the goddess had wanted her to do with pride.
She had survived many battles and fought unique devices and animals. Some weren't animals although; they were more… god-like.
Friends had died because of her and they had given up their lives for her. Occasionally, she had been given the role of matchmaker and now many of her friends were married to another one of her friends.
Her perspective of pain was something different to everyone else's that she knew. She didn't see it as a purely physical or emotional thing, in her mind it was a combination of the both that helped fuel her drive to continue to make Tortall a better place. There was a constant by her side, George and he helped to eliminate some of her pain, but he mainly gave her a reason to push through it. If she was injured during a battle or if another one of those god-damned-conservative-bastards called her another name that was meant to be insulting but was only unoriginal, she thought of him and refrained from punching (killing/challenging to a duel) the idiot.
It was the hardships that had given to her that had enabled her to become the legend that she is now.
The Lioness.