Darkrider

@darkrider213.bsky.social

The thoughts, writings, and musings of an old soul.

“Perhaps the greatest irony, and greatest offense, was that there was nothing for him to say, or rather, nothing *more* for him to say. His words were not meant for others; they might hear, but they would not understand, and therein lies the potential for a greater offense. So he held his peace.”

Goodbye is not the end, though the absence may indeed be long. Everything you sacrificed became the bridge into the future that barred me from knowing you beyond the sacrifice. I am in awe and in sorrow. I know you as I know history; the tale of one who worked for a better tomorrow. So will I.

“Man may have the knowledge to discern good from evil, but not the wisdom to acknowledge their powerlessness to wholly follow after good, and reject evil. For lack of power, they saw themselves lacking. In so doing, they have lusted after it, conflating power with their notions of morality itself.”

“Even should causality itself be twisted and bent out of time, it will still twist and bend into patterns recognizable to us. That is the key; not to understand it as a law of nature, but as a force of will, the product of intent from one powerful and determined enough to shape the world.” - Halkam

I can’t believe it took me this long to make the connection, but Kris’s appearance and relation to the Holidays couldn’t be more clear; we may not know who the Roaring Knight is, but we DO know what Kris’s role in the story is. Kris is the Silent Knight, and all the implications the wordplay implies