#shadow lore elementary

it's 100% legal and moral to lure unsuspecting innocents into pits of cuddly snakes

to this thing turn and to this thing alone. demand from it every drop! take it. steal it. burn it. devour it. crush it. strip from it every name it knows save your own. learn its base elements and the rails on which they move. recompose them according to your will.

eventually, you may attain a modest confidence that it loves you and cannot escape. this is not enough! you must wrap it in so many veils that it becomes alien to air.

smother it. take a sadistic glee. it's entertaining to be the only thing that can breathe.

once you feel certain in this thing, as certain as the ground you walk on, this thing which depends on you for everything: you will want to protect it. it would be wasteful to leave it in the rain.

The earth is rich and wet, black air thick with shapes. Soil aches for ash. Sky aches for bone.

Lawyer-Detective Amy Cerulean is heiress to an Impetus Repository in her lower torso, currently storing just below 9 * 10^9 eta-kala-mirrithe of angular momentum within concentric magnetic rings.

Simply holding this much energy incurs enormous karmic debt, making her its slave. She is bound to enact the will of the forces that gathered the energy.

As a clockwork dancer, Cerulean moves in rigid accordance to the Invariable Machine from which identity is derived.

Lately, this has involved attending grade school with her stuffed cat and learning the language of fire.

HEART 【⚙️】 is the self. the deepest self it's possible to be, all other things withdrawn. fire. blood. the absolute nature of law, from which all else is drawn

LOVE 【🔆】 is light. it is dream. it is eyes and sight. it is the most precious thing you will ever own. revere it.

POWER 【🦋】 is fermentation. action. decay. rot. transmutation from one substance to another.

TEMPLE 【🪞】 is glass. stillness, death, mathematics, law. it is the foundation upon which things can exist. if heart is what exists, temple is why it's there

basic grammar 101

a word is never only a word. it is both medium and perception.

the first kata (origin) is an action or thing. the nature of it is suggested by both word and syllable. everything about a sound is significant, meaningful, and precious.

remember order of operations: ＨＥＡＲＴ ＴＥＭＰＬＥ describes hermetic solitude whereas ＴＥＭＰＬＥＨＥＡＲＴ describes gravitational core. both could describe the same object, as the speaker lilts in emphasis, but the meaning is transposed 🩵