Balance the fire within against the fire without.
Unkeyed / Incomplete / Unsent
Can you hear it, Rao? The thought like a gravity well, pressing down till we become diamond?
I can't open the door, the bar's too heavy and my arms aren't strong enough. My mind isn't big enough.
I think there was life in this system once. I don't know where it is. I can't feel it anymore. I walked into a room I thought was empty, and there were six Legionaries in it playing cards. I didn't feel their minds. They spoke and laughed and shouted at me to get out, and it was like clay figures speaking and laughing and shouting.
There's a voice, and it's getting louder. I think I might die trying to hear it.
Will you tell the others about it, Rao? I've trusted your silence so far. I hope I can trust your speech.
I wish you were here in the whispers with me.