Azlan Brought a Radiance

“You have been playing a dangerous game my son.” came a voice from the vines beside. 

It was the Azlan. The Azlan brought a radiance also, far stronger than that of either Puck or Jupiter - his emanated a calm all about - and instantly the three felt settled by his presence.  

They waited a cosmic minute for his words to follow. 

“My Dears - 


“Light and Darkness are never balanced. Nor is Good and Evil. One cannot balance a something with a nothing. 

“The mystery behind the disruptive forces of chaos and evility is that these particulars cannot even commit to themselves - they are their own undoing - and the foulness that would corrupt, corrupts itself.  

“Those who align with evility invite their own destruction. Our crusade, as caretakers of the Spirit - the One Spirit - is to remain indifferent to the theatre of destruction, and be true to the permanency of all that is good.”  

It was here that Jupiter spoke up.  


“But if all there is is to do nothing, how can that help? Are we to watch yet other parts of our realm become dispossessed and corrupted likewise?” 


The great Lion stamped one paw, and then another, and the whole ground beneath them shook. He then spun around effortlessly and Eve momentarily was worried that he was about to disappear without giving them more of those incredibly insightful words. Words that spoke to her inner Eve. 

“When you hear a truth you never forget it. It is an immortal gift. When you hold a truth it changes you from the inside out. And when you think of that truth, you become a little bolder and brighter every time.” 

Eve had not been frightened of the great Lion. She wanted to hear more from him. He scuffed the ground and then looked up directly up into her eyes. 

He looked at her for a steady moment and then not, taking his attention back to Jupiter. 

“You are asking if you should fight Evil my Son, for what I have told you speaks to the peace of outcome and the self apparent truth that goodness will prevail, as has always done …

“But in the intermediate, where we are contested, and wish only to stop the harm, I tell thee thus:

“When a good soul turns a blind eye to Evil there is a little more corruption because of this. When nothing is done, that could be done, Evil is empowered all the more. It is a bewildering truth, that at times the gods themselves have felt safe enough within their own realm, and distant enough, from the perils of the lesser Worlds, that even they have not invested themselves in this fight.

“And by their own complacency they are remit. And by ignorance and aloofness and such high mindedness that turns away from the struggles and trials of the Mortals this epi-theatre grows. And this is a living proof of the reach of Evil’s contamination if so allowed.


“To second guess yourself is to have a conscience. To be able to ask: what do I want, what can be done, what should be done? What have I done?

“And the noble path asks, that be us Man or God, we be vigilant in righting wrongs within ourselves, and that of our outer self. 

"And we shall be defenders of the peace, of the one true Spirit, that sustains and upholds the freedoms of all.” 


Puck wanted to give an almighty cheer when he heard this, or a little whoop at least, for he was, as they say, dancing on the inside to hear the Azlan speak once more - however this occasion was too solemn to distract the other two with his feelings. He looked across at the dark waters and was just about to ask the Azlan what could be done to solve this problem of infiltration but the Azlan had gone.

“He never could stay in any one place for any length of time.” Puck said apologetically to Eve whose expression was now quite sad. 


-Gabriel Brunsdon, Finding Self - Second Guesses- Azlander Series