" Great impatience and clever wit are not a thing alone to set you free. Grander expectations often lead to agony and illusion. The longer you persist, the more you struggle in vain. "

" What does it matter? I am worthless and no one cares about me. I will perish and be no more. Unspoken and with no meaning. "

" I am Dahluger the Smiling; deceiver of the greedy, the hopeful, and the desperate. I see that you have wisdom but you attach it to only what tortures yourself. There can be no life nor happiness for you here. "

The thing bent between the pillars and slid along the sharp orange lines.

" All shapes are an illusion. The longer the form is held, the more exhausted it becomes. Yet all existence naturally resists whatever we force upon it. Even our beliefs....tell me, if I were to force my neck on these lines, which do you believe would give first? The line, or my neck? "

Inspired by Nick Bertke's " Running Along with..." which can be found here https://youtu.be/12Fzw8rrgKg

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