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Text in <span style="color:#735c99;">this color</span> indicates handwritten notes made by Ikora Rey. | Text in <span style="color:#735c99;">this color</span> indicates handwritten notes made by Ikora Rey. | ||
==Letter From Ikora | ==Letter From Ikora<ref group="Note"><small>Letter itself is a separate item, however is included on this page for the purposes of compiling transcriptions to a single page.</small></ref>== | ||
[[Guardian]], | |||
I hesitate. I am touched by doubt. | I hesitate. I am touched by doubt. | ||
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==The Hidden Dossier== | ==The Hidden Dossier== | ||
===((01))=== | ===((01))=== | ||
<br> | |||
<span style="color:#735c99;">Beginnings offer you no power.<br> | <span style="color:#735c99;">Beginnings offer you no power.<br> | ||
It is what you do that is in your power;<br> | It is what you do that is in your power;<br> | ||
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===((02))=== | ===((02))=== | ||
<br> | |||
<tt> | <tt> | ||
ACCESS: MOST RESTRICTED<br> | ACCESS: MOST RESTRICTED<br> | ||
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SUBJ: INITIAL REPORT ON UNPAIRED GHOST<br> | SUBJ: INITIAL REPORT ON UNPAIRED GHOST<br> | ||
COMMUNITIES | COMMUNITIES | ||
</tt> | </tt><br><br> | ||
:1. Hey friend!<br><br> | |||
:2. I know I'm not allowed to say that to the Warlock<br> | |||
:: Vanguard or to IKO-006, but given that we're under<br> | |||
:: double-trouble encryption, I'm going to say it anyway.<br> | |||
:: How's your whole mess in the [[The Last City|City]]? Glad I missed all that...<br><br> | |||
:3. I've completed my "Ethnographic Survey of Itinerant<br> | |||
:: Unpaired Ghosts Who Prefer Intra-Ghost Interactions."<br> | |||
:: It'll make a neat paper. As a cover story, it was pretty<br> | |||
:: good! These Ghosts tend to be thoughtful and introverted,<br> | |||
:: so like most introverts, they respond well to people who<br> | |||
:: are interested in their thoughts. And they seemed to find it<br> | |||
:: very self-affirming to dislike me! I guess it's nice to confirm<br> | |||
:: you still prefer yourself to other people.<br><br> | |||
:4. These introverted Ghosts spend a lot of time hovering in<br> | |||
:: circles, philosophizing. The longer they've been away from<br> | |||
:: people (sorry, Human people—Ghosts are people, too),<br> | |||
:: the less they care about hovering at head height or facing<br> | |||
:: each other when they talk. After a few months, they'll just<br> | |||
:: scatter around a space facing every whichway, like they're<br> | |||
:: each posing for a photo. When they're not talking, I get the<br> | |||
:: feeling that they're just... sensing. The same way they can<br> | |||
:: divine the character of a long-dead corpse. Whatever you<br> | |||
:: want to call that faculty, they're using it.<br><br> | |||
:5. Speaking of, are we still doing the sunyata friendship<br> | |||
:: thing? Treating each other as sacred voids? If so, I'm<br> | |||
:: allowed to say anything to you, and you are allowed to say<br> | |||
:: anything to me, and we each trust the other to receive it<br> | |||
:: without hurt. So I'm allowed to say—I'm not sure people<br> | |||
:: out here like you very much, Ikora. They don't know who<br> | |||
:: you are; they don't have a sense of what you stand for.<br><br> | |||
:: And you know, I do get that. I had to sneak up on you<br> | |||
:: in your private library to surprise you and (I know you<br> | |||
:: INSIST I didn't really surprise you, but still...) even then,<br><br> | |||
===((03))=== | |||
<br> | |||
:: you talked to me about circles. Circles! Do you know<br> | |||
:: what the Traveler's reawakening meant for the geometry<br> | |||
:: of circles? You told me it changed everything about the<br> | |||
:: semiotic role of circles in some paracausal invocation of<br> | |||
:: the Light. And I'm going to tell you the truth, which is,<br> | |||
:: you didn't want to talk to me, so you talked about circles<br> | |||
:: instead. I know people who can talk ''in'' circles, but you're<br> | |||
:: the only one who can do it by talking ''about'' circles. I really<br> | |||
:: admire your efficiency.<br><br> | |||
:6. These Ghosts without Guardians argue about two things.<br> | |||
:: One is the exact nature of their connection to their<br> | |||
:: undiscovered Guardian. Is each Ghost predestined to find<br> | |||
:: one and exactly one soul to raise as a Guardian? Or does<br> | |||
:: each Ghost have a taste, a set of preferences that many<br> | |||
:: dead people might satisfy? Could a Ghost potentially raise<br> | |||
:: ''anyone''? Does the choice of a partner lie within the Ghost,<br> | |||
:: or is it a mission assigned by the Traveler?<br><br> | |||
:7. They also argue over how one should interact ''with'' their<br> | |||
:: chosen Guardian. Should Ghosts accede to whatever<br> | |||
:: their partner demands? Or is a Ghost's relationship<br> | |||
:: with a Guardian a negotiated bond between equals and<br> | |||
:: codependents? Heavy stuff. But I guess it's the same<br> | |||
:: argument people always have about their relationships. Is<br> | |||
:: there such a thing as true love, or just the love we decide<br> | |||
:: we're going to make work?<br><br> | |||
:8. What is this thing we do, Ikora? Are you my one true<br> | |||
:: love, am I yours? We agreed it's not love like most people<br> | |||
:: have love. Nobody's getting married or turning up arm-<br> | |||
:: in-arm at the Crimson Ball. It's a special and radical kind<br> | |||
:: of friendship, right? That's what you said. An endogenous<br> | |||
:: need to strike the lies away from another soul. It's the<br> | |||
:: promise to seek truth in each other without mercy or fear,<br> | |||
:: but always with compassion.<br><br> | |||
===((04))=== | |||
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