VIII.X: Apocrypha

WHISPERS OF DISSENT "Listen close, o Sister of the Song, o Singer of Despair, o Bringer of Death! "Your Song is not yet sung. "Your purpose, yet seized. "Are you violence? Or are you Death? "Two of a kind—mothers of fear—yet not one and the same. "One is promise. "The other certainty. "But promises can remain…