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In the degradation of the great way come benevolence and righteousness. With the exaltation of learning and prudence comes immense hypocrisy. The disordered family is full of dutiful children and parents. The disordered society is full of loyal patriots.

Guin, Ursula K. Le. Lao Tzu: Tao Te Ching

He blazed a flight path axis-ward, hands saluting the clear vacuum above. From his supple flesh a ripple of orange flame burned impossibly in the airless void.

Across from him, blue light flashed. She was a comet, trailing a smokeless vibracy behind her.

Together they clashed, in a brilliant nova that colored sky and shadowed earth.

In the space they left behind; a new sun arose.

A cold star. A furious infernal of fusion, a sun price born to pst-human gods.

It rose serene over the void where the flame and the comet once lay.