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“May I speak Father?” Magnus the Red said as he raised his hand in a diplomatic manner. He received his nod from the Emperor and with it he rose to meet the people around him, “I wish to tell everyone a story from Ancient Terra. It was written by a man known as Putarc from the Grekins back before mankind even had machines. I know that this moment now was when his story should be spoken.”
Unprompted, Magnus left the seat and walked to the middle of the court. In doing so he quickly had the attention of all who were within the room and held it tenderly. They would listen to him, listen to his last defense for the Librarius.
“There was once a cave where a group of men looked towards a wall. Underneath them was a fire they could not see but which danced before their eyes. These men thought that this was the entire world! They could not learn more for they were bound by chains. ” Magnus said as he pointed to no one particular within the room, “But then, on one of these days a man broke free from the chains which held him! He quickly learned the truth of the images that danced upon the wall, that they were but the dance of a hot fire.”
There was a hint of relevance within the voice of Magnus as he balled his hand into a fist and closed his eye. It was an expression of immense pain and guilt, as if he was the one who inflicted this upon the man.
“Betrayed, the man began traveling the cave. He began to feel the wind upon his brow and then saw the entrance to the cave. It was a small crack where light shined through. He knew truth was beyond this wall, so he clawed at the rocks and dirt with his own bare hands to free himself from the cave of ignorance!” Magnus cheered with hands outstretched.
TalOS had no real thoughts about this story until this point. He was once that ignorant human looking upon the Universe with ignorance. But where the man was simply freed from his chains, TalOS was given a hint of the wind from the Machine God himself. A guide upon the journey of enlightenment.
As TalOS thought this Magnus continued, “Quickly seeing this for what it was, the man rushed back into the cave and retrieved his fellows. He told them that he had found something and quickly guided them out of the cave in good spirits. When they all saw the sun for the first time there was great joy, for that was truth and it was good.”
“That is the reason we must keep the Librarius, for they shall be our guides in the darkness.” Magnus ended without even a hint that what he just said was a lie of the tale. The true end was that the man was murdered by the ignorant.
And for that lie he was judged by the Emperor. By the single action of Magnus the Red, the Librarius was dissolved.
