> "She was delighted at the honour, but secretly nervous that she
might let
> others down, remembering the last time she had taken such a
position. The
> scars were still there, the outlying steads not yet fully rebuilt,
and she
> was sure some of the carls eyed her behind her back and whispered
that
> others would have been a better choice. But she prayed to her god
each dawn
> and dusk, and was rewarded with the confidence that he at least
trusted her
> to do well, and was with her. This would be the test that would
prove her
> abilities to the tribe again. So she ignored the whispers and
carried
> herself with pride in public, hiding her secret misgivings as
unworthy of
> her God."
Personally, I'm not a huge fan of internal dialogue. One of the
things I like about the Sagas (and Caesar's prose, for that matter),
is that they tend to avoid internal dialogues and give you only the
external actions of the characters. Like real life.
Jeff