Reunion

For Moreth. With thank yous to Vlad for the beta. The motto is borrowed from Nine Inch Nails, "Violent Heart".

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You and I, we may look the same, but we are very far apart.

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Long had we learned how to tame this unfriendly land, neither basking in the Light, nor straying in darkness. We had shaped it with axes and spears, with water and stone, and molded it, to our mutual benefit. We gave and took evenly in measure, minding the delicate harmony: no masters, but never truly mastered.


They came with fire and their burning needs to conquer, rule, and possess; our kin, but distant, alien in their attitude, they brought high hopes, but also the tumult, into which we might inevitably tumble.


We yet ought to learn to make our own fire.