User blog comment:Doctor Ibrahim/The Fatekeeper/@comment-27950421-20161118124401/@comment-28358106-20161119013222

He chuckles slowly. '"What you consider to be meaningless arrogance is in fact the purity of my being.  I am many things, but a liar to gain the false trust of others I am not.  I am, and thus I shall remain, that my followers may know me.  There is truth in the blackness that follows the path of men.  Tribalism, demagoguery, the path of instinct and survival.  These are what define the base desires of the lesser, and it is a truth of natural law.  You, O King, know this better than anyone.  But kindness and friendship and the false narrative of forced emotion are recent human inventions, and are lies that hide the true self, raw and raging.   Yes, I am many things.  But I do not lie with false kindness." '

Emelia places her head on his lap and he strokes her hair as she salivates on his leg.

"My love is true to those who are true to me.  Those who are wise enough to show their inner natures are those who find my favor.  I love, O King.  I love, and mourn as all do.  But I do so at my own hour."