WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Reject the scales and measure yourself against yourself



You both pant with exhaustion. Lungs strain. Muscles are torn. Your so-called "unworthy" strikes can't land on him with enough force to bring him down. That's the rule, and it has held: No strike unworthy in the eyes of the galaxy can strike him down.

And yet...


ChaplainChaplain: You keep trying. Despite knowing your inadequacy! I would admire the heat of a flickering candle that refuses to extinguish, if it weren't for you vile intentions. Impressive determination!
ChaplainChaplain: But it won't make you anything but persistently unworthy!
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Only unworthy in your cosmos. Only the judgment of your galaxy.
ChaplainChaplain: And what other cosmos is there, vile intruder!? The galaxy on fire, the product of your grand leader's dream!?
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: A galaxy redshifted. That's what it means: Suns in motion away from you. Refusing to hold to your orbits. Arcing out of the Company's control. A sky full of stars you can't catch.
ChaplainChaplain: Inane, nonsensical! Empty rhetoric, propping up your unworthy lack of duty and faith!
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: It's his dream. Our dream. And a friend taught me something recently. About goals, and causes, and what they mean.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: They taught me about knowing every detail of a whole galaxy. The galaxy I'll be worthy in.
WhiteDwarfWhiteDwarf: Worthy enough to strike you down.
ChaplainChaplain: A useless figment of imagination! Predict every star all you like, but my blade will cut you down if you pursue this disk!


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