Drink another shot of make believe

"It's not fair, but fairness isn't the game people play in my world." He shrugged, musing over the way things had been in his life before. "The point of the story is to control people...but there is a kind of beauty to it. It's accidental art...propaganda made meaningful." This was a tangent and unimportant, but he seemed to think about it for a while quietly; he tried to remember good things he said to write down later for the inevitable memoir. Edy's response was not what he was expecting, brought down to the much more narrow confines of a family than the cosmic realms of Gods and legends. "It all sounds intriguing. Perhaps it is commonplace to you but to me magic is a miracle I still cannot fully believe exists. Family lines, though, I understand that. My parents were both gardeners, tending to plants and flowers in Paris. When I did not want to spend my life with my knees in the soil there was a fight." He seemed distant speaking about his family, not just the gap of space but time there as well. "...If there is a way to go back, will you do it?" BASTIEN This tiresome desire to shock and amaze Perhaps I’ll grow out of it one of these days