"Imagine, if you will, a creature who's never felt fear before and you were given the task to inform it of the concept.
How would you go about doing it? Would you try to describe it, the concept of terror, or absolute horror? Would you give it an example? Or would you show it what to fear and describe how one might react?
Remember, one man's nightmare is another man's dream. How then would you show, teach, or give someone a taste of what fear is, when fear and lust are twins from the same worldly womb?"
Fear clutches its claws around us differently. Some representations may have spindly legs prickling our skin. Others will have huge monstrous frames giving you the sense of helplessness and futility standing in its shadow. Others are more formless and unknown, sowing doubt and untruths like a farmer harvesting lies.
Erik, sadly, finds himself in a position where he can only wish for such a feeling. Be it fear, love, joy or anger. And where Erik searches for something he has lost, Sarah searches for something she has always had, but is somehow difficult to reach. And as Sarah tries to leave her fears behind her a little four-legged creature is introduced to the concept of fear for the very first time.
Show me a man yet unrocked, unscathed, unblemished by hunger. Point him out to me and say: "He's the one. He's never felt hunger in his entire life."
And I'll point out the same man as the hungriest man of all.
In a race against the bell both Othy and Torolf prepare for their respective tasks at hand. Both are relatively new to their lives as mercs, yet they hunger. But hunger comes in many forms.
Where one hungers for food, another may hunger for love, affiliation, or a sense of respect.
Hunger, in its most rudimentary sense, is a feeling of loss or lack of something one yearns for or needs.
Even if what Othy or Torolf hungers for may differ, their struggles to settle it may coincide. Maybe even more than they would ever give it credit for. And while they're both struggling for appeasement Dioge struggles on his own, miles away from anyone other than members of his own flock.