enabled for a muse I've been scared to try and she feels the same

[oi_you]

First off, that name? Not funny.

Second..

No I'm going back to the first bit. It's a cultural expression, it's not my phrase, I don't own it. I use it, and I use it bloody well!

So. now Second, just because someone else thinks you might be up to the task doesn't mean you can write me. I could scribble out "God bless us every one." That doesn't make me Dickens.

Right I know he met him, I was with him when he met Agatha bloody Christie wasn't I?

If we're going to do this, let's do it right at least. Go back, watch through things and try to get a grip on who I am; and I swear if you write some blathering tripe I will personally torment you as loud as possible from inside your own head.

Don't think I won't!

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[oi_you]

If this is a game then it's more pathetic than I had thought.

[lightbranded]

It is a cruel game, I think.

[As he thinks about his own name, Will traces a finger around the mark on his arm half hidden under his sleeve. The circle. And the cross.]

[oi_you]

You too?

[No, not a kid who was hurt or put n danger, not that. Her better nature takes over in those situations.]

[lightbranded]

For me, the muns use the words lightbranded. It is appropriate, I suppose.

[But his words were melancholy. For Will, it was a bittersweet reminder.]

[oi_you]

You were burned by light? I don't understand.

[lightbranded]

[Will says nothing, but pushes up his lefthand sleeve slightly. The motion reveals a shiny burn scar just above his wrist. In the shape of a perfect circle quartered by a cross.]

[oi_you]

That hurt?

[And there is the change, from brass and obnoxious to quieter, concerned.]

[lightbranded]

At the time. But that was nearly two years ago.

This is the symbol of the Light.

[oi_you]

Meaning what, exactly?

[lightbranded]

That is what it is. It represents the Light, and so in a way it is the Light. In a similar way I am both a creature of the Light and I belong to the Light.

And that is what the name that has been given to me means.

[oi_you]

Right, right I get all that but...'light?' Like sunlight, starlight? Light weight? Light yogurt? The whole vague sort of goodness is light?

I've learned in traveling with people that vague is never a good thing so I ask questions.

[lightbranded]

It is the Light. [He repeats himself.]

It is the cold flame that burns at the center of the universe, just as the Dark is a great dark pit as deep as the universe. It is goodness and mercy and humanitarianism and all the things by which men may live with each other in peace. But it is also justice and the cold sword of the law.