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The Cenotaph

from Rites of the Renouncer by PatternShift

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And then I was close enough to feel the compulsion of the seeming, an initially subtle manipulation in perception giving way to the direct transfer of emotional state. As easily as we make words arise in the minds of other human beings by barking out a landscape of hissing and popping sounds at one another, so the Cenotaph plays on the minds of its observers.

Dreaming from the surface of Vaskania Prime, the experience began to overwhelm me. But I had known, with some pretense of detached objectivity, that this would happen as I came near the Cenotaph. I had held the possibility in mind long enough for my unconscious to prepare for it. There was no escaping or blacking out the reliving of grief that the Cenotaph forced on me. It was a raw, unyielding pain; I was filled up with it.

But I also knew my purpose, and I channeled that pain to my ends. The grief was appropriate; it laid a foundation for my undertaking. I was there now on its behalf—to find Owen, to bring him back if I could, or at least to get closure, to determine his fate and that of the other untethered. Whatever grief the makers of the Cenotaph had themselves borne, whatever let them imbue this structure with it so expertly—in the same way it compelled them to construct an obsidian tower in the Dream World to make others feel their sorrow, it now compelled me to craft something in turn, transmuting that pain into an equal weight of determination.

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from Rites of the Renouncer, released February 19, 2019

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