Pages From a Fool's Imagination

A place for me to put my random stories and observations.

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The Horse.

Your beauty was immeasurable. Your grace with the spear in your hands, moving as one with your body. The rush of the air as it spun and thrust through it. The unconquerable expression in your eyes. Each movement with practiced purpose, each strike with purposeful precision, each blow with precise power. It was a dance of violence that my eyes would be enamored with. On the path before you were warriors with pasts full of glory. Men and women larger than life, names that will go on in history. It is your path to face them on the battlefield. To command your forces and your weapon and strike down your foe with your own power.

As soon as I saw you, I wanted to join you on this path. I am no warrior, yet my love for your craft knows no bounds. I will carry the oil to maintain your weapons. I will carry the bread to fill your stomach. I will carry the tools to maintain your armour. I will be your horse for you to ride into battle. Your path to glory lay before you and I shall carry you on this path. Let your brilliance shine free and unburdened, for I shall carry the burden for you. I will be your steed for the battles before you, so you can dance freely with your bloody ribbons. We will tear history asunder under your spear.

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Word Thief - Success

“To become a success, you need many things. Anyone successful will tell you that. No matter what you pursue, there are traits that one needs to hone to ensure success. Perhaps most commonly described are traits such as perseverance, ambition, talent, luck. All things which one might have little to no control over. Something I personally believe to be one of the most important things is presence. Presence can be a powerful thing, pulling eyes towards you and away from others. It’s a driving force of the market. It can be a powerful tool in conflict, both economic and military. The presence of something affects everything around it. On the path to success, presence is what will determine what will rise to the top. Growth can be small, or it can be meteoric, but to maintain it, one must maintain its presence, otherwise it shall fall to the wayside. It is due to this that a weak presence will often be extinguished, or forgotten. Ones presence is stronger when there is less competition to dilute it. It is an unfortunate truth, but it is not enough to succeed; others must fail. Only with the failure of others will the presence of the successful be all the stronger.”

- Teachings of the Word Thief, Third Moon, Year of the Boar

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Hesitance.

I stand before a precipice. A void before me reaching as far as the eye can see. The space as vast as my lack of understanding of it, as if daring me to leave my safe space and plunge in. A step taken forward cannot be taken back. Once the eyes see, the memory keeps, the thoughts stir, and the hearts judge. To put myself under the scrutiny of the eyes that see is the only way forwards. Forwards into the void that is what will be. How many eyes will see this? How many hearts will judge? How many memories will keep me? Only the void knows.

I’ve left the circle. Now it’s time to take the path. To strip away the only thing holding me back.

Hesitance.