AabahranThe Chronicles, Vol.19
The Chronicles · by Historian Eril Ballyshack
/--------------------------------------------------------------------\ | | | * * * * * * Thirday 23rd | | Vol. 19 * * THE CHRONICLES * * Winter, 1474PC | | * * | | | | - Moral Challenges [Eril] - Bull! [Eril] | | _ _ o _____ | | |\ /| oral challenges are | | his bard must wax poetic. | | | \/ | those trickiest to | | | | | | bring up, let alone | | She's met bull a'double, | | | | solve or discuss. To | | One, Talgrath, | | the Tribune's credit, | Second, Anmosenth. | | it must be difficult for a vast | | | spectrum of moral principles to | Fur everywhere, trouble, | | meet at some strange middle | Frolicked those days, | | ground and be directed into a | Pushing down icewine, | | shared ideal. Standing above | Road took me by daze. | | them and the rest of us is the | | | Law of Non-Contradiction, ever | Where the hell? | | looming, and one begins to | | | question ethics. Do we decide | Red wine too, forgot. | | on what is good and evil based | Memory is all a blot. | | on how we feel? Feelings are | | | as unreliable and changing as | "Yar!" | | weather, even for those that | "YAR!" | | claim to have mastered theirs. | "YARRRR!" | | Someone named Lokar was kind | | | enough to put my heart to a | Damn hilarious, | | moral challenge -- I believe he | A bloody cheek, | | was engaged in some ritualism, | Call me gregarious. | | but his questions were valid. | | | "Which is worse", he asked me, | That other, tough bull. | | "One child's death or two"? | | | I like mathematics, so I said | Chopping off heads hear I, | | two. He then presented two | S'what I'd do were I tall, | | children to me, and offered an | Enemies be fur full -- | | ultimatum: "You kill one, or I | | | will kill two". | HAH! A play on. | | If there is one thing to | | | respect in these dark lands, it | "Yar!" | | is the convictions of others. | "Yar!" | | And so, to my shame or my grace | | | I killed one of the children. | Make a minotaur of me yet, | | Lokar let the other go home. | World needs more the like, | | | Drunk on appetites whet, | | A powerful message, and an | Feel again a tyke. | | upsetting event for me to be a | | | part of. It is impossible to | Fur everywhere. | | think of an apology, since my | | | victim is dead, and there is no | Minoma's fine result! | | eternal framework on which to | | | base good and evil... Unless | "YAAAAAAARRRRRR!" | | feelings are all we have. | | |____________________________________________________________________| |Chief Editor: Historian Eril | The Library accepts any articles of | |any artistic merit. Send any texts and expressions you wish! | \--------------------------------------------------------------------/