I still maintain that one of us will someday convince the other, and immediately find himself honour-bound to switch his position immediately so as not to lose the comfortable ground over which we have trod for so long! And I am well aware my bedrock faith in the worlds beyond is alien to you, little brother. You are all so very indulgent in not mocking my beliefs. (Much.)
But as I said, you've given me more to think about, in this particular iteration of our eternal wrangling. About immortality, and the various forms it takes, and about lineage and our responsibility to the ancestors who have gone before us and to the children who have and will come after.
Well, and I suppose that after a rite like last night's is a good time to think those weighty thoughts, and a snowy December eve at the turning of the year is a suitable backdrop!
If it is any consolation to you, if your own thoughts are as vast and ponderous as my own: I will say once again, you and Narcissa have engendered a fine son between you, and nurtured and shaped several other fine children throughout the years. The ones you've had a hand in the raising of proclaim their worth again and again. And as Tony lives on in Pansy, and Serena in Ptolemy, so will you, in Draco. And in the others you've had the teaching of, as I will in my fine collection of students.
As to more pleasant matters: Before this surefit of energy from Friday's working wears off and I must once more return to hoarding every scrap of power this damned curse will spare me, we should take advantage of it. Wednesday is your morning at the Ourobouros, is it not? Will you be keeping that appointment this week despite the holidays, and if so, would you care for a round or two? And we can discuss the ways in which we might be of the greatest assistance to Our Lord and His vision, and redouble our efforts to take the more displeasing parts of His obligations from His shoulders, that He might be more free to continue His work in the ways He sees fit.
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Re: Private Message to Toshenka
Date: 2012-12-30 08:34 am (UTC)But as I said, you've given me more to think about, in this particular iteration of our eternal wrangling. About immortality, and the various forms it takes, and about lineage and our responsibility to the ancestors who have gone before us and to the children who have and will come after.
Well, and I suppose that after a rite like last night's is a good time to think those weighty thoughts, and a snowy December eve at the turning of the year is a suitable backdrop!
If it is any consolation to you, if your own thoughts are as vast and ponderous as my own: I will say once again, you and Narcissa have engendered a fine son between you, and nurtured and shaped several other fine children throughout the years. The ones you've had a hand in the raising of proclaim their worth again and again. And as Tony lives on in Pansy, and Serena in Ptolemy, so will you, in Draco. And in the others you've had the teaching of, as I will in my fine collection of students.
As to more pleasant matters: Before this surefit of energy from Friday's working wears off and I must once more return to hoarding every scrap of power this damned curse will spare me, we should take advantage of it. Wednesday is your morning at the Ourobouros, is it not? Will you be keeping that appointment this week despite the holidays, and if so, would you care for a round or two? And we can discuss the ways in which we might be of the greatest assistance to Our Lord and His vision, and redouble our efforts to take the more displeasing parts of His obligations from His shoulders, that He might be more free to continue His work in the ways He sees fit.