Which sentence best represents a theme of the passage?
A.
Journeys should be enjoyed with friends.
B.
It is important to stand firm in your beliefs.
C.
Real happiness is not found in possessions.
D.
Hiking is a dangerous hobby to undertake.

Through treacherous mountainous paths covered in glistening white snow, a black-clad figure trudged steadily on. Pillars of smoke rose from a distant village, but the figure in black moved farther away, for what he sought lay elsewhere.
Pulling his shroud tighter across his body, Daemyn struggled to shield himself from the blistering cold. Twenty wretched days had passed, and he still had not found Sima, the sorceress with his mother’s cure. He had begun to wonder if his sister was right.
"She has not been seen in 50 years!” his sister had cried, upon hearing about his leaving. “How will you ever find her?”
“Do you not know the legend?” Daemyn recited for her the mantra ingrained into his soul:

When those of pure and simple heart
Present to her a selfless plea,
A black stone wall will break apart,
Revealing great Sima to thee!”

“They call it a legend for a reason, Daemyn. How can you even think about leaving at a time like this?”
“I am determined to find her, Paulina. Without Sima’s cure, mother will not live! I refuse to just sit around and watch her die.”
Daemyn’s brief stay in the town of Kimba, however, had renewed his hopes. The villagers had told him of a mysterious black wall roughly five miles northeast. After fruitless conversations with countless strangers, Daemyn had finally found direction.
The wall should be just beyond this next cliff. Racked with anticipation, Daemyn quickened his pace. His legs burned from the steep climb.
As if the gods were testing him, the heavy overcast sky suddenly let loose a blizzard, but Daemyn refused to let the blinding snow hinder him. He used each passing rock to guide his movements and continued to hike upward. At last, he reached the blessed cliff, and through the curtain of snow, Daemyn made out a glorious black stone wall stretching across the expanse of the mountainside.