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They learned those rules, because they were those rules. | They learned those rules, because they were those rules. | ||
And in time the gardener became vexed. | And in time the gardener became [[Vex|vexed]]. | ||
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Over the past five years, we Lightbearers—you Lightbearers—have grown strong. Each victory opens more territory for searching [[Ghost]]s, and more [[Guardian]]s rise. None of these newborn contenders are mighty without equal—but you have been at the forefront, again and again. To see you fall would be disastrous. And there are so many ways to fall… | Over the past five years, we Lightbearers—you Lightbearers—have grown strong. Each victory opens more territory for searching [[Ghost]]s, and more [[Guardian]]s rise. None of these newborn contenders are mighty without equal—but you have been at the forefront, again and again. To see you fall would be disastrous. And there are so many ways to fall… | ||
It has become fashionable, lately, to analyze [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] as if they were political opponents, each with something to offer us. Some Guardians even take secret names to mark their transgressions. I despise this flirtation. But I cannot speak against it; after all, I have had to find my own pathways to power. Thus, I asked my Queen, who has preached a doctrine of balance, if she truly believed in the equal worth of Light and Dark. | It has become fashionable, lately, to analyze [[Light]] and [[Darkness]] as if they were political opponents, each with something to offer us. Some Guardians even take secret names to mark their transgressions. I despise this flirtation. But I cannot speak against it; after all, I have had to find my own pathways to power. Thus, I asked my [[Mara Sov|Queen]], who has preached a doctrine of balance, if she truly believed in the equal worth of Light and Dark. | ||
The [[Awoken]] were made in conflict, | The [[Awoken]] were made in conflict, she reminded me. All her people volunteered to return from heaven to fight and die in the cosmic war. They are by nature and by doom drawn to that edge, that place of tension. And she has her own prejudices: she has made terrible, ruthless choices in the name of salvation from Darkness, so she cannot dismiss its power without in a way dismissing herself. | ||
All that said, she told me, "I believe in balance. But to seek balance is not to seek equity. A sea half of water and half of poison is not in balance. A body half alive and half dead is not in balance. Given the choice to live in any world, any world at all… we would need a little Darkness in it, I think, to keep the balance true. But not so much as we would need the Light… | All that said, she told me, "I believe in balance. But to seek balance is not to seek equity. A sea half of water and half of poison is not in balance. A body half alive and half dead is not in balance. Given the choice to live in any world, any world at all… we would need a little Darkness in it, I think, to keep the balance true. But not so much as we would need the Light… | ||
