*slowly appears to you, hovers silently for a long moment, then speaks softly*
I...apologize about how I acted earlier. I shouldn't have taken offense at your compliments.
Besides...I've been thinking. Maybe you were right all along. The law... *sigh*
@highspren-of-the-roughs
*the patterns spin*
Are you alright, friend?
*they perk up slightly* ...Friend? You would call me a friend, even after...all that?
But I...don't know.
Mmmmm. Friendship has no rule that friends may not disagree.
*pulses, moving around, they start to get the sense that Structure does not like staying still for long*
What are you thinking, 72114?
I suppose... but I just lost control of myself...
*they hesitate before answering Structure's question*
The law has never been what I thought it to be...I thought it was right. But it isn't, at least not always. Maybe...it is a lie, by both of our definitions.
*structure slows more*
Mmmm.
Laws give structure and system to people. They help people work together. They make things function. They can be used to prevent evil. They can be made with good intent. Laws can also be flawed, or exploited, or gamed. They can be made with bad intent. Mmmmm. This is a truth.
*winces, the rip into the void they appear as closing slightly* ...Yes. I see now that you were right all along.
All the Lightweavers and Cryptics...they were just trying to tell me, and I pushed them away...
Mmmmm! Yes! We are right! And wrong! Mmmmmmm.
...Maybe...
...
Storms, what have I been doing with my life all this time?
I don't know. I wasn't there. You tell me!
Yes, but...
...
I don't know anymore. Everything...
What do you not know, seven-two-one-one-four?
...What to do. How to live my life now.
What did you think you needed the law for?
I...don't know. Everything, I suppose.
Why?
The law seemed right. I trusted it more than I did myself.
MMMMMMmmmm. If you follow the law because it is right then doing the right thing was more relevant than the lawful thing in the first place for you.








