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Law of life
It took a self-deluded mind to force justice upon a world when that world cared for nothing; when all reality mocked the righteous with its indifference. War swept such games aside. It was pure, unapologetic in its brutality. Justice arrived with the taste of blood, both sweet and bitter and that too was as it should be.
‘He once told me that an untethered soul can drown in wisdom.’ ‘What?’ ‘Wisdom grows by stripping away beliefs, until the last tether is cut, and suddenly you float free. Only, because your eyes are wide open, you see right away that you can’t float in what you’re in. You can only sink. That’s why the meanest religions work so hard at keeping their followers ignorant. Knowledge is poison. Wisdom is depthless. Staying ignorant keeps you in the shallows. Every Tanno one day takes a final spiritwalk.
They cut the last tether, and the soul can’t go back. When that happens, the other Tannos mourn, because they know that the spiritwalker has drowned.’
We light fires, but the darkness remains – in our minds. Cast light within and you will not like what you see.’
Where is home? It lies ahead. Where is home? Lost far behind us. Where is home? It is within, gutted and hollow, waiting to be filled once more. Where is Gallan? At this road’s end. What is Gallan’s promise? It is home. I – I need to work through this. Round and round – madness to let it run, madness. Will the light never return? Is the joke this: that salvation is all around us, even as we remain for ever blind to it? Because we believe … there must be a road. A journey, an ordeal, a place to find. We believe in the road. And in believing we build it, stone by stone, drop by drop. We bleed
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Children understood at a very young age that doing nothing was an expression of power. Doing nothing was a choice swollen with omnipotence. It was, in fact, godly.
‘Don’t worry. I am like most people. I can keep my eyes and still see nothing.’
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