“ Run, Torak! The bear...is...possessed... ”
Men like that — when they know they won’t be found out — they will do anything.
~ Michelle Paver
Choas errupted amoung the watchers. They didn't think it was over at all. He cheated! He used fire!No, he won fairly enough!
So I've got to find a mountiain that nobody's ever seen. And work out the answer to a riddle that nobody's ever solved. And kill a bear that nobody can fight. Renn sucked in her breath. You've go to try.
Writing is a mysterious process, and many ideas come from deep within the imagination, so it's very hard to say how characters come about. Mostly, they just happen.