He led her through two large wooden doors, into the unknown. She walked the tiles of the Japanese floors inside the Temple; pondering about and peering on the wonders of a new world. She almost swooned at the sights! Wanted to faint in exultation..
"What a beautiful place," she exclaimed, then continued with: "If only I could live in such a place, and even that wouldn't suffice all that I have missed in my own corner of the Earth, all these years. All should see what I see here! All should experience such a different way; the way which I have seen now; here."
He looked down upon her petite structure with confusion and said "You have safety in your home; people die here every day; struggle to survive; try to escape a hell each morning rise again. This is no place for you. Do you know what it is like to fear for your life? Do you know how much training it takes just to know you are safe from harm?"
She absorbed his sentences, but remained unchanged in her thoughts. She responded with dignity: "But it is an honest life. Where I come from, we are living in a lie, and more than half of our people don't even question it; or even realize such things. Sure, your body is not safe here, in this place, but where I come from, your soul is not safe. And the way I see it -- I'd much rather a sword strike my back, then a thought haunt my being. Everyone is escaping something."