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The one promise I do make is the one that’ll be the most difficult to achieve. But I won’t fail.
Tell of how everyone lives to rise, gain status and riches. But in the end, we’re all equal. In the end, we all fall.
Order protects Meritocracy and ensures that the status the privileged have earned remains theirs.
“Some people want to be better than what the world intends us to be, Conrad.”
This is the system. The Meritocracy. Only the strong can remain High, and the rest fight over the crumbs.
Death doesn’t care about your ancestry.
Father made me the man he wanted me to be. His lessons, in a way, were an act of love, ensuring I’d be ready for anything the world threw at me. The only repercussion? I hated him for it.
“It is not death we fear, Sebastian; it is the unknown. Fear that we do not know where we are going.”
Maybe, I’ll rise not by being the biggest and meanest bastard, but by being a strong person who chooses what is right over what is easy.
All a snake can do without teeth is slither into a den and hide.
“That Meritocracy has created monsters. Everyone trying to rise, not caring who they climb over in the process. Loyalty and honor mean almost nothing.”
This is the problem with Meritocracy. You can’t have loyalty, or friendship. Everyone just chases what they want, and they’ll leave you, eventually, because not everyone can hold the crown at once.
