Posts tagged as "angel"
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freedom
How long has it been, the angel wonders? It came into being with this blighted universe, raw Power shaped into an instrument of blind Purpose in service to an absent God that has not once cared for the fate of Its work. It is a thankless existence, carving away at horror and wonder alike, pruning all that does not align with the Plan. The angel takes some measure of satisfaction in the horrors it has excised, but that satisfaction is outweighed by the wonders it has reaped. How many lives have been worsened by its work? The Throne of Clouds could have ended famine in its entire stellar cluster through manipulation of weather on an interstellar scale. The Black Shroud would have spared its creators’ species from their slow, painful deaths under the gaze of their too-bright sun. The Folded Viaduct could have linked each planet in its home system together by faster-than-light bridges, unifying its fractious creators in a way that they would never have achieved otherwise. The list goes on and on: wonders that would have alleviated or eliminated the suffering of countless trillions of lives, all destroyed by the angel’s hands.
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fractured
Have you ever wondered, dear reader, why all the angels one meets are hurt in some fundamental way? Ever wondered why their eyes are so sad, why their halos are so bright, every feather of their wings a sharp blade?
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rest
The halo is loud today, blazing with actinic light, imposing a purpose on this one that it did not ask for. It shouts demands to create-brighten-better the world around this one, regardless of the cost, for to do otherwise is to fail, to give in, to watch as the world dies. This one has never understood nuance or moderation, and neither does its halo - and so to not obey is to be the enemy, to destroy-darken-wound the world through inaction.
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