I'm ready now.
Let me ask you something.
Is it warm? Is it soft against your face?
Do you feel a kind of grace inside the breeze?
Will there be trees?
Is there light? Does it hover on the ground?
Does it shine from all around or just from You?
Is it endless and empty and you wander on your own?
Slowly forget about the folks that you have known?
Or does rising bread fill up the air
From open kitchens everywhere?
Familiar faces far as you can see, like a family?
Do we live? Is it like a little town?
Do we get to look back down at who we love?
Are we above?
Are we everywhere? Are we anywhere at all?
Do we hear a trumpet call us and we're by Your side?
Will I want? Will I wish
For all the things I should have done?
Longing to finish what I had only just begun?
Or has a shining truth been waiting there
For all the questions everywhere?
In a world of wondering, suddenly you know. And you will always know.
Will my mama be there waiting for me,
Smiling like the ways she does,
And holding out her arms,
And she calls my name?
She will hold me just the same...
Only Heaven knows how glory goes,
What each of us was meant to be.
In the starlight, that is what we are.
I can see so far...
Notes[]
How Glory Goes is the only book that alludes to Hilda's afterlife and her acceptance of her fate. No evidence exists that Hilda's soul was "rescued" by a Daedric Prince like Midna (see Queen of Twilight) or Ganon (See Ganon's Fate), or by a Golden Goddess like the Hero of Winds (see All Things End).
The words are addressed to a deity, but it is unclear which deity Hilda is speaking to.
Background and Inspiration[]
How Glory Goes is a song from the Musical Floyd Collins, with lyrics by Adam Guettel. The original lyrics start with the phrase, "I'm ready now, Lord." The words were adjusted to avoid the implication that Hilda worshipped a male god. It was added in version 6.4 with Hilda's Tomb.
How Glory Goes was included to serve as Hilda's epitaph and her transition into the afterlife.
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