How can such fundamentally opposed forces do the same thing?Īm I as shallow as those Guardians arguing over power levels? Trying to force a simple binary upon a complex spectrum… ? The Drifter talks about "spectrums of Light"-powers his Ghost can access because of its modifications. _If the Light forgets while the Darkness remembers, then why does a Ghost's power of determination let it access latent memories imprinted in the dead? That's paradoxical. If you never hear from us again, you know Truce and Cowlick finally found something too spooky. Might go back to Cocytus and aim this thing at the gate. Life isn't one player always exploiting and beating the other.Īnyway, back to testing. Ain't that something? But I said, your game's just a toy. Sounds like you'd rather be the first player, huh? But if both players play perfectly, that second player wins in the end. And in this game, there are many strategies available to the first player, but very few to the second, who acts to exploit the choice made by the first. But I didn't.Īnother thing she told me is that you can play poker with just three cards and two players. But the only way you learn the rules, the only way you're ever gonna get one of those Truces you're named for, is if you come inside. Who cares how the deck shuffles if you don't know the rules of the game? We play this game over and over. That's life, she said, and she had daisies impaled on the spikes of her skull. ![]() You could walk back and forth across the observable universe faster than you could count all those possible shuffles. Fifty-two cards in a deck don't seem like many, this hard-ass Titan told me. You know they did try to recruit me once. Weren't we closing in on some kind of workable theory of exactly how our Ghosts resurrect us? One which was, if I am not mistaken, based on research by the Future War Cult? Did any of that work survive Lakshmi? Now, I'm not much for gadgets, so I won't ask you how you rigged this thing. Cowlick says it's probably tapping into her scrutiny, if you permit that term in your ivory halls. I don't know if it's doing exactly what you Warlocks want, but it's doing something all right. I took readings off a hatch control out here on Europa and Cowlick was able to retrieve badly distorted voices in some kind of distress. Love all the knobs and antenna very analog. Some chose to go make new lives.Īnd you-you chose to stand with us against the night. When the Traveler left Riis, it gave your people a choice. Perhaps it doesn't value longevity the way we do maybe it values a short, bright existence more than a long, ordinary one. (Why then does it choose species to uplift in the first place? Why doom Eliksni or Humans to a confrontation with Darkness? Perhaps it will not let the Darkness coerce it into abandoning its purpose. I believe it would not force the responsibility of defending it upon one of its chosen species unless it had no other choice. I believe that the Traveler despises coercion. There are Eliksni alive around other stars: alone and small in a dangerous universe, but free of any obligation to the Traveler. There is a very good chance humanity will go extinct here.īut there are Eliksni who survived the Whirlwind. It protected us and gave us the Light, but in doing so, it doomed us to war against its enemies. The Traveler's presence draws the attention of every great power in our galaxy and beyond. We are surrounded by Darkness, trapped at the center of a cosmic war. ![]() We know no Human settlements beyond this system. Nor do I ask you to measure your pain against ours. I won't pretend to understand what your people experienced during the Whirlwind. What if the Traveler abandoned you out of mercy? To give you a chance? Why did the Traveler leave us but remain with you? I have accepted that the Traveler is not mine to judge, but even without judgment, I am curious. Why it became your Traveler and stayed to guard you. Instead, I preach to my people that we must be the best Eliksni we can be.īut always there is the question. But as you say, I should not diminish my own kinship with Light, for it is in all places and things. You speak of Light as an intervention in reality from outside, parallel to causality. It is not separate from the physical world. ![]() It is received in radiation and discharged in the neuron. For me, Light is in the air and the joints. Truly my knowledge of Light is distinct from your own. With respectful courtesiis and the proper bow,
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