( They are creatures shaped by blood, habit and circumstance, the sums of choices others inflicted. He hears the words, then their underlying concessions, and he does not ask, Who gave you this right?
Heavens dole out their mandates with unwavering hands. If Anduin were chosen, then he is no more to fault or question than the blades of long grass, dappled golden by smeared sunlight. A being that respects its shape, if not its substance. )
You lead men. ( You should not. A heart of kindness is not one of practicalities. He has seen this in Wei Ying, his spider's web of virtues torn in the hands of vicious, carefree invaders. He who controls righteousness and justice need not be he who survives. ) You failed to mention.
( But then, they barely traded names. Only complicity of counsel and a lush, privileged pardon of lady Rigarda's sins. Then, Lan Wangji encountered a child. Now, veiled in the shadows of his migraine, he sees the dark possibility of a boy-chieftain.
Their shapes do not superpose. So much of the day comes to this, to sketches of men as they are and men as they mean to be. )
no subject
Heavens dole out their mandates with unwavering hands. If Anduin were chosen, then he is no more to fault or question than the blades of long grass, dappled golden by smeared sunlight. A being that respects its shape, if not its substance. )
You lead men. ( You should not. A heart of kindness is not one of practicalities. He has seen this in Wei Ying, his spider's web of virtues torn in the hands of vicious, carefree invaders. He who controls righteousness and justice need not be he who survives. ) You failed to mention.
( But then, they barely traded names. Only complicity of counsel and a lush, privileged pardon of lady Rigarda's sins. Then, Lan Wangji encountered a child. Now, veiled in the shadows of his migraine, he sees the dark possibility of a boy-chieftain.
Their shapes do not superpose. So much of the day comes to this, to sketches of men as they are and men as they mean to be. )