I must be the last person online to have been struck with this realization, but it's amazing how the Internet has empowered hundreds of ordinary people, turning them into little Diane Sawyers and Anderson Coopers as they snap and blog away.

He hangs on now, pressing his hand lightly against the wall, below the window, waiting for the familiar arrow of pain. Only there is none. An oddly pleasant swell of memory, a wave of warmth flooding over him, sliding back, slowly. It is a first

It's amazing what ordinary people can do if they set out without preconceived notions.

I am an ordinary person.

Adventuring can be for the ordinary person with ordinary qualities, such as I regard myself.

Depending on the reality one must face, one may prefer to opt for illusion.