he asks again. the world does not contain all the answers to questions posed. this, alhaitham knows. if the world did, then there would be no reason for mankind to know how to think. if answers were truths, then the world would only ever be what it seemed. the refraction of mirrors tell otherwise. unchained manacles, the red of blood, a bleeding pair of eyes looking into alhaitham's. a price spread across his own bed - a prince standing on the precipice. they make for a mirror polished with nothing but the dredges of distance and time. once, there had been two children and an ivory tower. once, the world had been whole.
alhaitham, who has never once lied to kaveh, merely says this: ]
Kaveh.
[ and then: ] You are Kaveh to me. That is who you are. How can you be anyone else?
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Date: 2023-04-18 04:50 am (UTC)he asks again. the world does not contain all the answers to questions posed. this, alhaitham knows. if the world did, then there would be no reason for mankind to know how to think. if answers were truths, then the world would only ever be what it seemed. the refraction of mirrors tell otherwise. unchained manacles, the red of blood, a bleeding pair of eyes looking into alhaitham's. a price spread across his own bed - a prince standing on the precipice. they make for a mirror polished with nothing but the dredges of distance and time. once, there had been two children and an ivory tower. once, the world had been whole.
alhaitham, who has never once lied to kaveh, merely says this: ]
Kaveh.
[ and then: ] You are Kaveh to me. That is who you are. How can you be anyone else?