"Why?"
"I suppose I can ask you the same"
"Why, Why have you intruded on this ritual....?"
"I want to understand its purpose. I want to understand why they have chosen to do this now"
"You came back, You came back again, to my space.... to my...... you have nothing to do with this..... with it's work, with it's worship...."
"You are right. But I want to make sure it doesn't do further harm "
"It has done no harm..... it has no malice."
"Only worship, only Denial, only Ambition..."
"Well it's worshippers intend malice. To bring back ceno and the arch devils... reconstitute the red road. Create a harrowing "
"That's why I am here"
"Then you know nothing, despite your ambitions."
"Then explain it to me. I will listen "
"IT IS ONLY A PIECE, THEY NEED TO COME HOME"
"The fiends do?"
“No, do angles and devils not walk the planes?"
"They do"
“Then what sins have the messengers of Ceno preformed? What sin has this messenger of Ghughk preformed? "
"They are perverting Aguarras teaching. Their followers are inflicting a harrowing on others. Inflicting pain on others to build their gates"
"Aguarra is pain, They are no perversion, they are an outcome. Archdevils are not aberrant, they are in no service other than purity."
"Aguarra is pain, pain in the name of progress, pain in the name of growth. As a child is born it cries, as the old man dies he screams, there is no slavery in pain. Only the mortal is of fault, the divine is pure."
"The pain should be ones own to learn from and experience. Not to cause others"
"All pain is personal yes, and it is something we all share. however in the very act of life you will cause another pain, so is anyone to say such things. Are they speaking with impunity or denying their fault?"
"You are just like Dunn. You will defend your position to the last. All you understand is harrowing. Right or dead. There is no debate here, just violence "
"It has done no Violence upon your flesh, YOU came back here, YOU invaded our sacred space, It simply preaches Ambition and Denial. Yet you deny this, and speak of falsities...... No matter your ambition, you've accused it of violence. How broken must you be to hurt yourself so and call it what? Noble? No, the knife is not to blame for being sharp, it is what it is made to do...."
"Your followers, the pursuit of the red road, ceno have hurt those very close to me. I seek to prevent it from hurting others. I came back again and again because I wanted to know about the truth seekers, the fiend and the lamprey that cover many"
"Oh child, they teach, and protect."
She does not seem to be somewhere else, but she does not seem alive either.
Who all heard this? Trying to determine a correlation.
I am back in the Proper now.
- Ilana