huh? But if both players play perfectly, that second
player wins in the end. Mathematical inevitability.
Ain't that something? But I said, your game's just a
toy. It's just a contrivance. That's not life. Life isn't
one player always exploiting and beating the other.

5. Anyway, back to testing. Might go back to Cocytus and
aim this thing at the gate. See how wild it goes. If you
never hear from us again, you know Truce and Cowlick
finally found something too spooky.


MESSAGE ENDS


If the Light forgets while the Darkness remembers, then why does a Ghost's power of
determination let it access latent memories imprinted in the dead? That's paradoxical.
That should be a property of Darkness. How can such fundamentally opposed forces do the same thing?

Am I as shallow as those Guardians arguing over power levels? Trying to force a simple binary
upon a complex spectrum... ? The Drifter talks about "spectrums of Light"—powers his Ghost
can access because of its modifications. Forcing the metaphor, I thought. Light is not light. It
doesn't have frequencies or spectra. But if we are all constrained by our internalized ontology,
by our tacit understanding of how the world works... maybe the circumstances of extreme survival
compelled the Drifter to explore a new ontology. Maybe his Ghost achieved a new way to think
about the Light.

A sacred void would not be ashamed to think that she knew less about the Light than a greasy
near-cannibal with a mutilated Ghost.

I'm a bad sacred void.