To Second Guess Yourself is to have a Conscience

J. S. Lowry

Jupiter was encouraged. In truth, he had only seen the mortal world as an inconsequential parlour of a fleeting and fanciful drama, with costumes and language and a lot of death - oh yes, there was a lot of death. The mortals came and went so very quickly from that plane of existence, and in the most spurious ways. One could not really think of it as meaning much … at least, not until now.

Perhaps he had only seen the Physical World through the eyes of the Bear and this was the problem - he had never really been a proper human being as they were, perhaps his casual nature with the lesser world was just that. Seen through the eyes of a convivial beast - yes that could be it, and this was now to be his truth going forward.

Eve said excitedly, “and so to second guess yourself is to have a conscience - to question yourself … of course! this makes perfect sense.”

“Yes one can never really do that enough, can they? Sometimes I am so bound up thinking I know what is right and wrong and what I am doing myself, but I really need to keep questioning don’t I? Complacency is dangerous in and of itself, I can see that now - I must broaden my area of knowledge, I must widen my heart to encompass so much more, and I must hope above hope, that I have the strength to defend the defenceless. Oh I do feel inspired in this place” she said half forgetting the Azlan had visited just moments before, for the vision of him was now leaving but that which he had imparted had remained.

“So what now Brother?” said Jupiter turning to Puck, adding: “I am surely not diving into that mess, that we may return …”

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