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Illusions
By Silver Sailor Ganymede

They say that opposites attract, that light attracts the darkness and the darkness the light: but that is only true to magnetic forces: in the majority of situations it is nothing more than a hypothesis, and an incorrect one at that. You see light and darkness are forever at battle with one another for power, neither wishing to yield and give the possible prize to the other. The one thing you must remember here is that I speak not of good and evil, for good and evil are as different to light and darkness as night is to day. Light can be 'evil', darkness can be 'good': you must remember that good and evil, in truth, do not exist; they are merely perceptions: perception that differ from individual to individual.

The child of Saturn, for example, was 'good', but it was darkness that ruled her. Her supposed lover, the daughter of the Moon, was also 'good', but was ruled by the light. However the child of the Moon had a dark side, a side few had ever seen: a side born from 'evil' and controlled by the darkness. In actuallity this 'evil' side was no different to her 'good' conterpart except in one respect; she knew the injustices of the world and did not hide from them, she knew that nothing was eternal, no matter how strongly it appeared to be that way. But she was tinted with bitterness, a strange contrast to her light-side's sweetness, and that is what the child of Saturn loved. The bitterness of evil allured her, though she knew that she could never succumb to it: she would become Chaos itself if she did. That did not stop her from loving the dark one though; why should it have? After all, contenting oneself with an illusion cannot be punishable, can it? Especially not when all of existence is in its very nature no more than an illusion.