We introduced new elements, refused to play the game they made us play, and worked together to lay waste to a threat, and then built something greater.
[ It's difficult, she thinks, because most people like Link would never work with evil like Procer had been forced to. It helped that there had been a villain like the Dead King to unite against, to allow Cat to birth something new in its place. Perhaps, of course, the real answer was to find someone willing to straddle the space between good and evil. Someone who did not want to be evil, but found that the acts were the only way to thread that needle.
Or perhaps they needed a hero willing to reach out a hand.
Did it matter where it came from? ]
Good and evil, we united to stand against a greater Villain, and then we neutralized the greatest force for Good, that stacked the deck against change.
We had to, if we had any hope of finding a space between either Good or evil. The Intercessor for good needed balance. She was supposed to be for both, but she had never favored the other side, so we became more and more outlandish. Too powerful and too dangerous for them to handle. So good became more and more dangerous.
It was an arms race that was careening toward the destruction of all life on Calernia.
no subject
[ She said simply. ]
We introduced new elements, refused to play the game they made us play, and worked together to lay waste to a threat, and then built something greater.
[ It's difficult, she thinks, because most people like Link would never work with evil like Procer had been forced to. It helped that there had been a villain like the Dead King to unite against, to allow Cat to birth something new in its place. Perhaps, of course, the real answer was to find someone willing to straddle the space between good and evil. Someone who did not want to be evil, but found that the acts were the only way to thread that needle.
Or perhaps they needed a hero willing to reach out a hand.
Did it matter where it came from? ]
Good and evil, we united to stand against a greater Villain, and then we neutralized the greatest force for Good, that stacked the deck against change.
We had to, if we had any hope of finding a space between either Good or evil. The Intercessor for good needed balance. She was supposed to be for both, but she had never favored the other side, so we became more and more outlandish. Too powerful and too dangerous for them to handle. So good became more and more dangerous.
It was an arms race that was careening toward the destruction of all life on Calernia.
So we changed the game.