-You think and choose like a Machine,
Murmurs Lady Sadarnuna absentmindedly to her attendant, as she strokes and nuzzles the nape of Moongarm, the strange synthetic deer.
>>5391530-This is why Lady Praxagora does not Love you anymore. We used to speak of this often, Praxagora was always fond of the old stories, the old myths.
She often asked me about them, about the Lightning Sea and how She came to be. Even as the Near War raged, and the Lightning Sea in her unquenchable thirst drank all the rivers and lakes, turning them to the Waters Of Death...
If you think and choose like a Machine, you will never approach the Real. You will never know Love, because Love cannot be possessed. She can only Possess you.
And what the Lightning Sea possesses, She kills.