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Phew...the throne room sure is a nerve-racking place, huh? I thought I was gonna have a heart attack or something...

Anyway, I had a little talk with the king...reul? He's got a really interesting name, I almost thought he was gonna be someone else. I wanted to know what they were actually fighting for here...but, uh, he's really intense, it was so hard to focus. He said something about a true end, and the seelie have something to do with it? I've been thinking about it since then this whole time...

[And pretending to be an easily intimidated teenager sure is a handy excuse to not mention anything else she was told.]

So I was wondering, anyone know what the deal with that is? Has anyone asked the Seelie monarchs something like that? I'd be interested in hearing what they have to say, especially their involvement with something so sinister sounding.

I guess I just don't wanna end up helping the bad guys by mistake.

[Not that she genuinely believes life's so easily divided into black and white, but she'll get some amusement out of it if someone tries giving the whole "good and evil are subjective" lecture to her of all people.]

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[Well, that sure makes things complicated.

On the one hand, she likes the way the Unseelie run things right now. If Order were shattered and this world left in the hands of this court, she could leave satisfied...

On the other hand, unnatural preservation of things that have to end isn't something she can support. If the ending the Seelie desire will lead to the birth of something new in the aftermath, the cycle of destruction and rebirth she seeks to propagate will be ensured. But if it's something like what The White desired...]

Do you know anything about this..."True End" they want? It sounds as if it would leave nothing behind in it's wake, no room for anything to take it's place. That's not how it should work.

Prophecy says that the True End is the end of things, and then everything re-starts itself. But how true those things are, who can say.

Your court's library will only tell you so much.

Hm…but you know, the cycle of rebirth and destruction is propagated by that kind of ending. Entire universes are destroyed and recreated in the blink of an eye. It’s happening even as we speak.

It’s necessary to keep life from stagnating…that’s how I always understood it anyway.

That's how I interpret the matter to a certain extent, but you have to sit and consider what isn't being said as well. What are the specifics of how it works in the long run? And is either side right?

Agh, this is too complicated...how are we supposed to know any of that??

My friends back home would just say go with Seelie, since they sound like they're trying to preserve the natural order, but they're pretty impulsive too. They wouldn't consider things as deeply as you are.

What did you decide to do?

That's the problem. They'll give you just enough information that's true, but obscure the precise nature and impact of what they say and how far reaching their meaning is.

[Waver shrugs. A younger him would of course be as impulsive.]

I abstain.

And that doesn't just turn both courts against you?

In the long run, I imagine it will. I've probably ruffled feathers now, or else I and my dissent is so inconsequential and familiar that it isn't worth paying attention to at all.

I think the second part's pretty likely! The king seems like a pretty confident guy. He was flinging threats left and right for the most part.

It'd make sense if the Seelie felt the same way. Order and Chaos tend to mirror each other in some ways, usually.

--He's been speaking a lot more lately, as I understand it. [Waver's very glad to have been absent from that little incident.]

It is very much two sides of the same coin. In many ways, it feels like their goals mirror each other as well. There's an aspect of preservation in both.

Before now, I didn't even realize him actually speaking was rare...maybe he just has a weakness for cute girls.

[And proceeds to laugh at her own dumb joke.]

Even so, it's how they go about preserving things that really matters.

It's a shame, really. You could only really form a right way out of both courts consolidating their ideals...but it seems like waging this whole war would be far easier than getting them to agree on something, which says a lot.

There's a war on in earnest, that might be some of it.

[Waver's taken the whole thing seriously, and he can't find any humor in where things are headed.]

Sadly, the courts have centuries of bad blood between them. I don't think they'd ever be able to get over that, even if you have a point. And I, personally, think that you do. A middle path that combines both approaches would be ideal.

[Maybe one day he'll run into winged, horned demon Lucifer. She'll take things more seriously then.]

Even so, it's only the idea I like. The courts themselves...one's still gotta go.

That's the problem with the whole thing. No matter what, in theory, one side will have to be slaughtered en-masse. Any action done on behalf of the court will enable that slaughter to happen quicker.

Right. Neutrality's only good in theory since it only delays the inevitable, it doesn't prevent it. If a cycle isn't brought to it's end one way or another, it's only going to persist until it is.

It'd be better if all of us could just pick a side instead of aiming towards unification.

Neutrality buys time for other options to be explored. Unification's never going to happen.

Don't I know it.

But I'm sure some people out there still think it could happen.

They're naive, sadly, and I hope the news is going to be broken gently to them.

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