The Gatekeeper Wildeer [work] (Real · ROUNDUP)

Why does Wildeer exist? Why not simply let everyone through?

To give it up is agony. It feels like death. But Wildeer never mocks the weeping seeker. He simply waits. For he knows that a person carrying the weight of their past cannot step into a future that has not yet been written. the gatekeeper wildeer

The Toll of the Threshold: Understanding the Gatekeeper Wildeer Why does Wildeer exist

Descriptions of Wildeer vary, as if his form shifts to mirror the expectations of the seeker. To a greedy merchant, he appears as an impassable iron portcullis, cold and unyielding. To a desperate lover, he is a foggy mirror, reflecting only their own self-doubt. But those who have passed him—truly passed him—describe a different visage: a tall, lean figure with eyes the color of weathered stone, dressed in simple traveler’s garb, holding not a weapon but a lantern that burns with a steady, silver flame. It feels like death

So I ask you now: What are you carrying that you did not earn? And what are you clinging to that you are terrified to lose?