“This road is like the meandering course of a life. There are two paths to take, side by side. Each of you are already traveling that side. You must choose. Stay on your own path, or cross to mine.” “But the road is the same, isn’t it? It still goes to the same place,” someone asked. “Yes.” “Where does the road lead?” “Death. All lives end in death, excepting one. Such is the way of things.” “Then what does it matter which side a man is on?” It was Rengen asking these questions. He was a large man, one of the few that was taller than dark-eyed Tehlu. But he was shaken by all that he had seen
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