Shadowgirls

People face challenges everyday. Many minor, some major, and several that fall in between the two. Yet nearly every single one of said events comes with this one question: "Fight or flight"? Do we stand our ground and go the more difficult path, or do we turn the other cheek and make a heading for somewhere else?

We've seen Becka, her family and friends choose to fight when needed and managed to come out mostly unscathed (oops...sorry, Lindsey). Yet in midst of a battle unseen to mortal eyes, there is a question lingering for young Rebecca. That of whether or not she really wanted to rescue a childhood tormentor.

Consider what her experience with Miss Snow was prior to this: She was the popular girl, whose mother hated hers, and suddenly wanted to get friendly. However soon after this supposed offer of friendship did she become the victim of her horrible machinations. Something so unforgiveable and heinous that many might not be unwilling to the idea of trying the little tart as an adult.

However, as part of the revived Shadowchild, Becka was hit with a startling revelation: Her immortal enemy was the same as the teenaged one. This gave way to possiblities that had to swarm within the mind of a bright young woman such as herself. Namely, "was it Misty or was it one of Hydra's sick games?" Was her near-rape experience the product of supernatural forces indulging in human avarice, or did Misty have enough control at the time to wave her silver spoon and orchestrate the devilish plot? That's up to the Daves, really.

In any event, Becka chose the high road. She herself said that the right choice is almost always the hardest, and that's pretty easy for her to say. She's fifteen and up until recent events, she'd only had bullying and studying to worry about. The "hard choice" there was to ignore the losers tormenting her, be the target of the occassional prank (rape not included), and continue to prep for the chemistry final. Yet the difficulty of picking the "right" thing to do changed; choices don't get much harder than saving your almost-rape's planner. While she couldn't let Hydra go on with her plan, she probably could have chosen to kill Misty in the process, easily convince herself there "was no choice" (and considering she's fifteen, it'd be REAL easy).

But she didn't. She made what is so far the hardest choice she's had to make (so far), and harder than most REAL ADULTS would. At fifteen, she did the right thing, whereas many of us might have chosen differently, quite susceptible as we are to pettiness and desires of revenge and our own personal ideas of justice. I've thought on many occassions, "would I save so-and-so if I had the chance?" I still can't answer some of those.

Did Becka WANT to save Mistletoe Snow? Personally, I say no. But that had nothing to do with "should she have?"