Observations, he says. Four imperial Unseelie guards were the only commonality I was able to isolate endemic to both scenes. They’d been standing, armed, at the dock doors, overseeing the delivery. He gives me a sidewise look. Wow. That was, like, a whole sentence. With nouns and verbs and connective tissue. Endemic. Fancy word.
Observations, he says. Four ...
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Suddenly so many things she'd overheard her brothers and Quinn saying when Grimm had been in residence made sense, and upon reflection she suspected a part of her had always known. Her love was a legendary warrior who had grown to despise himself, cut off from his roots. But now that he was home and given the time to explore those roots, he might be able to make peace with himself at long last.
If V’lane were a signpost, it would read Abandon All Personal Will, Ye Who Tread Here.
Samhain had its origins, like many modern holidays or celebrations, in pagan times. As the sidhe-seers had been inclined to erect churches and abbeys on their sacred sites, the Vatican had been wont to Christianize ancient, pagan celebrations in an if-you-can’t-beat-them-and-don’t-wantto- join-them-rename-it-and-pretend-it-was-yours-all-along campaign.
There are only shades of gray. Black and white are nothing more than lofty ideals in our minds, the standards by which we try to judge things, and map out our place in the world in relevance to them. Good and evil, in their purest form, are as intangible and forever beyond our ability to hold in our hand as any Fae illusion. We can only aim at them, aspire to them, and hope not to get so lost in the shadows that we can no longer aim for the light.
Moth to a flame I follow.