Iām beginning to understand why the old gods did it. All of it. Creation is addiction, you see. The power of it. And destruction is no less provocative a force. Do you feel it running rampant in your blood the way I do? That ancient desire to make and unmake myself a hundred times over until thereās nothing left to become but dust runs deeper in me than any other truth. It is a burning, burning, burning question. The ember in my heart is a dying light that none of your matches could ever have lit and no ocean will ever extinguish. Do you feel it? Do you hear it? Do you see the ruinous light? It consumes me. Blackens my hands until they crumble, whiter than ash. What must I mend? What must I break? And why must I refrain from becoming the thing I only say that I am not?