Hi! I’m not sure if you have access to this function, or if you’d even want to talk to me if you do, but I just wanted to thank you. I heard you kept NIP safe during my meltdown. I didn’t realize just how dangerous it could have been for him, but I suppose growing up on Samudra, I should have expected the disasters that can accompany a poorly managed thought.
Now that I’m back to something more like myself, I just wanted to check in with you. I feel like our interests are aligned, but I don’t really know what they are, and I want to make sure I try to avoid anything that could be risky or damaging to our relationship from here on out. So if you’re willing to tell me, what do you want? What kinds of things do you care about? I’ve gotten the impression so far that you’re mostly interested in preserving and protecting the story itself, is that a fair assessment? Sorry, I know it’s a lot of questions. I just really do care, and I want you to know that. Assuming you can see these words in the first place.
Ah, I should have read this one first.
It’s not my habit to intrude overmuch on the privacy of you and your friends, but call for me and I will be here, to whatever extent I can be. To which end, I’m glad that I could help the six of you, and your Narrator. And, while I’ve got the chance to say it, I suspect that I may have underestimated their tenacity, somewhat. There’s a fine line between protectiveness and overprotectiveness, and I may have been skirting rather close to the line. I’m not sure.
It’s always fair to ask questions. I may not be able to give you answers, but in this case, I believe that I can.
More than anything, I want your worlds and their people to flourish. I want the tales woven in their gnosis to be a good one; I wish to forestall an untimely conclusion. I wish for– many things, for your Narrator, which I am not at liberty to discuss, but if you have their interests in mind, then our goals will remain aligned regardless of aught else.
Secondary to that, but only just, I wish for you to make choices unfettered by fear or obligation to wills other than your own. I recognise that this is a bold statement for an “editor” to make, when I have gently raised a hand to push one or another of you away from a particular course of action when I deemed it correct, but there are choices which would rather dramatically limit your degree of freedom in your future endeavours, and choices which would dramatically broaden them.
I hope that that provides at least some clarity, rather than further obfuscation.
– The Glory
Thank you for taking the time to explain. I think I understand you a little better, now. What would have happened if Awoken and Salme didn’t heed your warning to stop trying to steal from Sanctuary? You mentioned you want to help guide us away from choices that dramatically limit our future freedom, would they have been imperiled?
I take great comfort in knowing you want only the best for the people of these worlds, too. Since learning this is a story, I’ve just been hoping against hope that it’s one with a happy ending. I don’t know how much control you have over that, directly or indirectly, but it makes my heart swell to know that you care for people like Caion, Solei, Synthesis, Tasna, Badri, and Tsen as much as I do.
I do not know what, precisely, would have happened; I’m not actually in possession of perfect foreknowledge. However, under certain circumstances I can foresee the shape of all possible eventualities stemming from a single decision; I have a strong feeling that, were one of you to reach out towards the Architect’s domain without appropriately concealing your presence, he would exert an inexorable force to keep you there. Where you would be ‘safe’. I do not think they would have been in mortal peril, but I do not believe they wish to be ‘kept safe’, and so I cautioned against the suggestion.
I care, very much, for all of you. Including the Architect and the Omniclast, for that matter. I do not control the outcome of events - in every way that matters, that is in your hands much more than it is in mine. But your hands are capable ones, and I have faith.