[summons FlysEyes to him to talk about his former life]
Where's the one that can talk well? The one with the eyes I made in Genoa?
You mean... me?
I do. Sit with me a moment.
[FlysEyes does so]
What do you wish?
I was curious. The night is long, and I have been given much to think of late. May I ask you a question?
Of course.
Do you remember who you were, before you went to Hell?
I... almost do. [thinks on it] It's like I remember how it was to dream. And to remember moments of the dream. But never the entire play. Do you see?
I do. What do you remember?
I was... a scholar.
Really?
I was. In a place called... Athens. I think it was a long time ago.
What did you study?
I was a philosopher.
And this was a thing that sent you to Hell?
I lived as a man during a time in the empire that ruled Athens, changed its religion and laws. I believed Philosophy to be the Studies of the Systems of the World and our purpose in it. And yet discussions of the nature of the Divine became a crime.
Who declared this a crime?
Christians. To be a philosopher was a sin. And one important Christian was heard to say, that the people should hunt down sinners and drive them into salvation, as a hunter drives his prey into traps.
To think about God would surely not be a sin in God's eyes.
Perhaps. And yet... here I am.
And perhaps you did not tell me all of your dream.
I was betrayed, Forgemaster. I was hunted, I was tortured, I lied for my life. In a church, before a judge. I gave up others, so that I may live. I became a sinner.
And?
They killed me... anyway. I woke up in Hell, because this world is insane, and I learned something about sin.
[Looking disturbed by FlysEyes story] And what did you learn?
I learned... to like it. [begins to crawl to Isaac] Yet here I am, back on the surface of the Earth... strong and free, in a world where thinking is considered something that should be tortured and murdered. [He stops crawling and then disturbingly begins to smile] Thank you for my second life. [Isaac looks at the Night Creature with remorse] I intend to use it well, and make wonderful new dreams of it.
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