If something happens once, it may never happen again. If it happens twice it most likely will keep happening.
Fear exists until the moment when the unavoidable happens, after that we must waste none of our energy on it.
The River adapts itself to whatever route prove possible, but the river never forgets its one objective: the sea. So fragile at its source, it gradually gathers the strength of the other rivers in encounters. And, after a certain point, its power is absolute.