belief. chapter index.

you think it is yours and that it answers to you. that you might do with it as you will, not for its own sake, or for any sake. you think it should bend under your palm, because you have the power to make it so. you do, and it does. and i will make sure that it will always be thus.

it crumbles like water, it does not resist. it is stone and bedrock. it is no more than gravel. your steps are heavy and burdened with the weight of our fates, the fate of this world. the future of this world. you are the destroyer. you are the end, and all things must turn to dust.

we are the darkness in their light. there is no one without the other. no smile without a tear. no joy without fear. they think they are different from us, that they are better, and we are worse. they think of right and wrong, and good and evil, and black and white. we are all the heroes of our own story. except when we are villains. and we are, villains.

the world they made was not for us, or them. or you. but you made your own place, your own nest, your own home. you had your purpose and you lived it at the cost of all else. at the cost of me. but i was next to you, and all was well. until i was not. until you were not.

give me your sins. tell me your wrongs and i will make them right. see that yours is not the only way. let me show you how to see the world without eyes; hear it without ears; feel it without skin, or bones, or flesh. move a stone without hands, walk without feet, fly without wings. be without being. think without thinking. live without living.

my master was you. you who did not teach, who could not teach. you who did more than others ever did, ever could. you, who they banished, scorned, spurned, for things beyond your control. for the purpose laid within you. i do not wonder for the past if your purpose were different. if you were not so much yourself as someone else. would our fates align still? would our paths converge if one swayed ever so slightly more? would you be the traitor, and i the darkness deceiving? have i always been destined for this path? for there is such a purpose laid within me as well. or was it you who put me there? would i want it any other way?