Prompt: Weight Of The World
Character(s): Horo
Originally Written: 3.2.2009
Notes: None of the religious views here express my own.

Her burden was the world's hatred.

The rise of Christianity gave way to the persecution of the pagans. The people no longer needed to pay tribute or do anything at all to honor the gods. They paid attention to their Lord, dismissing everyone else's gods as false.

There was not a doubt that they were haughty, as though they could know everything in the world.

She couldn't succumb to the insecurity of everyone's sudden disbelief in her, if not for her sake, then for Lawrence's. He needed her to be strong, and even if he didn't suspect the ordeals she went through,she tried to keep him in the dark about such things.

No matter what she said or did, she always had their best interest in mind, not just hers. As reluctant as she was to admit it, she cared for the fool, even if he was the biggest softy she ever came across.

So even if the weight of the world brought her down, she would raise her head for him, because he's done the same for her.