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Forum-Index → Diaries → About Me | ImmortesI managed to do 107 jump ropes in one minute. Gotta thank my parents for training me in the summer!
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So, I've never ever dedicated myself to something big and serious, and I doubt I'll ever have the time to do it.
However, I am considering NaNoWriMo either next year or the year after, when I hope I'll be in college.
50,000 is something I would love to try, but would probably never achieve in the near future.
I would appreciate some tips as to how to get started.
EDIT: ah first post of page 3 of my diary. Whoo!
Also credit goes to Wildfyre for this layout strategy. Credit where credit is due!
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𝑇𝑜 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑦 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑛:
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 - 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 - 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒, 𝐼 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝑀𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝐻𝑦𝑑𝑟𝑎? 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑆𝐷 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑦𝑑𝑟𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛.
𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 — 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠, 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟 — 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑂𝐶’𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑟𝑒-𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠. 𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟. 𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑒-𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝐶𝑙𝑦𝑑𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐸𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒: “𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.” 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑛 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟: 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟, 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧’𝑛𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎, 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝐹𝑎𝑟𝑜, 𝐸𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑙𝑖 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜, 𝑊𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑃𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑡-𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦, 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠; 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑥𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘, 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 — 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑙𝑖. 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑖𝑚, ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 — 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑥𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠; 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒-𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝐸𝑧𝑟𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠. 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟, 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑧𝑟𝑎’𝑠, 𝐾𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 — 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 — 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑟 (𝐼𝑆𝐷) 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠’𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛: 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑠𝑜, 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ, 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦? 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤.” 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑙𝑖’𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.. 𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑙𝑖 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠. 𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦’𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠’𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙.
𝐼𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝐹𝑎𝑟𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑. 𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒-𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦. 𝐼 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓. 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝐼 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜-𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡; 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡-𝑜𝑓-𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠. 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ?
𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼’𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐴𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑑. 𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑁𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 - 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑃𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛-𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.
𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒? 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑟? 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒.
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑗𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛: 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑠.
𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦,
𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑠
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 - 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑣𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑎𝑡 𝑒𝑛𝑣𝑖𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐺𝑎𝑙𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 - 𝑔𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒, 𝐼 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑑 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝑀𝑦 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑝𝑒𝑒𝑘 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑡, 𝑐𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝐼’𝑣𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑡 𝑜𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑝𝑒𝑟. 𝑊ℎ𝑦 𝐻𝑦𝑑𝑟𝑎? 𝑆𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑐 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑜𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑆𝐷 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑚𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑦𝑑𝑟𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑢𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛.
𝑂𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 — 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠, 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟 — 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑂𝐶’𝑠, 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑈𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑟𝑒-𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑔𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠. 𝑇𝑤𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑃𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑒𝑑 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑤𝑜 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑦𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘. 𝑇ℎ𝑎𝑡’𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑢𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑟. 𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑜𝑡𝑖𝑐 𝐵𝑜𝑛𝑛𝑖𝑒-𝑎𝑛𝑑-𝐶𝑙𝑦𝑑𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑟𝑢𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑙𝑒 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑤𝑎𝑟 𝑐𝑟𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑒, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒’𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑟𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑤𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑔. 𝐸𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑙, 𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑡 𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑖𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑠𝑎𝑦𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒: “𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒.” 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑐𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑦 𝑔𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑖𝑛 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑒𝑟: 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑠 𝐺𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐴𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟, 𝑆ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧’𝑛𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙 𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝐽𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑉𝑜𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑎, 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑑𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝐹𝑎𝑟𝑜, 𝐸𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝐶𝑜𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟 𝐸𝑙𝑖 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜, 𝑊𝑒𝑎𝑝𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑆𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑜𝑟 𝐿𝑖𝑒𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑃𝑦𝑟𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐻𝑎𝑚𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑐𝑎𝑡-𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦, 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠; 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑥𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝑈𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ, 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑒𝑒 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑗𝑢𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦’𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒. 𝐼𝑡 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘, 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑦 — 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑙𝑖. 𝐵𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑢𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑅𝑖𝑚, ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑑𝑒𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 — 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑠 𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎𝑑𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝐼𝑡’𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑡𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑛. 𝑃𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑛𝑜𝑡 ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑏𝑜𝑟 𝑥𝑒𝑛𝑜𝑝ℎ𝑜𝑏𝑖𝑐 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠; 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑒𝑓𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒-𝑒𝑥𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑜𝑟𝑠 𝐸𝑧𝑟𝑎 𝐵𝑟𝑖𝑑𝑔𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝑊𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑠, 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠. 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑗𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑜𝑟, 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝐾𝑎𝑢𝑟, 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑧𝑟𝑎’𝑠, 𝐾𝑎𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑟𝑟𝑢𝑠. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎 𝑓𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑎𝑠 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ𝑒𝑟. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑣𝑎𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑣𝑎𝑙𝑢𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑅𝑒𝑏𝑒𝑙𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠, 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑚𝑠 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ.
𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒, 𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒-𝑠ℎ𝑜𝑡 𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑒𝑑 — 𝑂𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑁𝑒𝑤𝑠 — 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡𝑠 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑟𝑠𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑏𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐼𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑎𝑙 𝑆𝑡𝑎𝑟 𝐷𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑜𝑦𝑒𝑟 (𝐼𝑆𝐷) 𝐶ℎ𝑖𝑚𝑎𝑒𝑟𝑎 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒𝑒𝑡 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑎𝑟 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑓𝑜𝑐𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠’𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐴𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑔𝑜𝑜𝑑 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑜𝑛: 𝑅𝑒𝑑 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑎 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑞𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑎 𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑐 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑂𝑙𝑑 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑎𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑜𝑟𝑛 𝑛𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑤𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑟𝑡𝑦 𝑦𝑒𝑎𝑟𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒’𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑏𝑒𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑦𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑒𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑑. 𝐼𝑡 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑒𝑥𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑖𝑜𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑠, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑞𝑢𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑑𝑜𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑖𝑡𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑓 𝑠𝑜, 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑆𝑖𝑡ℎ, 𝑖𝑓 ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠𝑛’𝑡 𝑎𝑙𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑦? 𝑇ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑏𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑖𝑛 𝑎 𝑓𝑢𝑡𝑢𝑟𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑔𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑔𝑛𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 “𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤.” 𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑢𝑝𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝐸𝑙𝑖’𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑝𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒.. 𝐴𝑛𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑜𝑘𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐸𝑙𝑖 𝑉𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑟𝑝𝑟𝑖𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑖𝑓𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑎𝑛𝑦 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑛 𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛 𝑙𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑑𝑒𝑣𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑟𝑒𝑠ℎ-𝑓𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑑 𝑐𝑎𝑑𝑒𝑡 ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠. 𝑂𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑠𝑒, 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦’𝑠 𝑓𝑎𝑢𝑙𝑡, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑙𝑦, 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠’𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙.
𝐼𝑛 ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑑𝑠𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡, 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡 𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑓𝑒𝑤 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑎𝑛𝑡 𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑎 𝑣𝑎𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎 𝑜𝑓 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑎𝑛 𝑎𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑛𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑙𝑜𝑜𝑘 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑙𝑒𝑠ℎ𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒. 𝐴𝑛𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑛𝑦, 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑎ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑒 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡 𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟, 𝑖𝑓 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑡𝑜𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑏𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝐾𝑎𝑟𝑦𝑛 𝐹𝑎𝑟𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑙𝑦 𝑑𝑒𝑑𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑑, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑠ℎ𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑠𝑢𝑎𝑙 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑡𝑢𝑑𝑒. 𝑀𝑦 𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑙𝑎𝑤 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝐼 𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑒𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑠𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑟𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑒𝑑. 𝑇𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑔𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑢𝑛𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑎𝑠𝑡 𝑎 𝑚𝑜𝑛𝑡ℎ 𝑏𝑒𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑛, 𝐼 𝑘𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑒𝑙𝑙. 𝐹𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝, 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑎𝑗𝑜𝑟 𝑠𝑜𝑢𝑟𝑐𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛.
𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑟𝑏 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑙𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑛𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑘𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑓𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑎𝑔𝑒. 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑟𝑒-𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑑 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑖𝑒𝑐𝑒 𝑛𝑢𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑠 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑜𝑡𝑛𝑜𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑐𝑙𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑛𝑒𝑐𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑎𝑟𝑦. 𝐼 𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑐𝑖𝑎𝑡𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑓 𝑚𝑦 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑝𝑎𝑟𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑟 𝑏𝑒𝑐𝑎𝑢𝑠𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑏𝑜𝑡ℎ 𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑠𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘 𝑜𝑓𝑓 𝑜𝑓. 𝐼 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑔𝑜𝑡 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑝𝑒𝑛 𝑝𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑠 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑚 𝐼 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑠, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑖𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜-𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦-𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑔𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒 𝑚𝑒. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑔𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑚𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑏𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑠, 𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 𝑏𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑛 𝐼 𝑑𝑜 𝑎𝑡 𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠. 𝐼 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑙 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑡𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑓𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑟𝑎𝑓𝑡; 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑝𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑡-𝑜𝑓-𝑣𝑖𝑒𝑤 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝐹𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑦𝑠 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑎 𝑛𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑙 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑐𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑚𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑒𝑛𝑗𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑏𝑙𝑒 𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠. 𝑆𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠, 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑘𝑛𝑜𝑤 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑖𝑛𝑣𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑠 𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑔ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑙𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑠. 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑎𝑡ℎ𝑦 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ?
𝑅𝑖𝑔ℎ𝑡 𝑛𝑜𝑤, 𝐼 𝑎𝑚 𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑘𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑜𝑛 𝑚𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑐𝑟𝑒𝑤, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑦𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎𝑛 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑛𝑒𝑤 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟. 𝐶𝑎𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑢𝑠 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑢𝑛𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑎𝑟 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑒, 𝑏𝑢𝑡 𝐼’𝑚 ℎ𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑤𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑒 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒 𝑒𝑓𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑏𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑜 𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑜𝑚 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠. 𝐴𝑑𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦, 𝐼 𝑟𝑒𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑧𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑑𝑖𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑢𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑑 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 𝑎 𝑑𝑎𝑡𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑑. 𝑁𝑎𝑚𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑡𝑒𝑥𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔. 𝑁𝑒𝑒𝑑𝑙𝑒𝑠𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑎𝑦, 𝑖𝑡 𝑖𝑠 𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑦 𝑑𝑖𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑢𝑙𝑡 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑎 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑒𝑟’𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑 𝑐ℎ𝑜𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑛𝑒 - 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑤𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝ℎ𝑦𝑠𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑙 𝑑𝑒𝑠𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡. 𝑃𝑒𝑟ℎ𝑎𝑝𝑠 𝑖𝑓 𝐼 ℎ𝑎𝑑 𝑒𝑥𝑝𝑎𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑑 𝑎 𝑏𝑖𝑡 𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑒, 𝐼 𝑐𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑢𝑎𝑙𝑙𝑦 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒 𝑖𝑛-𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑜𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠.
𝐼𝑓 𝐼 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑠𝑢𝑚𝑚𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑧𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐻𝑌𝐷𝑅𝐴 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦𝑙𝑖𝑛𝑒, 𝑖𝑡 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑏𝑒 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑑 𝑓𝑎𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑦 𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦. 𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑎𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝑞𝑢𝑖𝑟𝑘𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑓𝑒𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑚𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚. 𝐴𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑟 𝑎𝑙𝑙, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑙𝑦 𝑙𝑜𝑦𝑎𝑙 𝑡𝑜, 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒? 𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑑𝑜𝑤𝑛 𝑡𝑜 𝑖𝑡, 𝑤𝑖𝑙𝑙 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑦 𝑠𝑎𝑐𝑟𝑖𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑒 𝑒𝑎𝑐ℎ 𝑜𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑖𝑟 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑟𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝐸𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑟𝑜𝑟? 𝑊𝑟𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑎 𝑗𝑜𝑦 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎 ℎ𝑎𝑙𝑓.
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑢𝑟 𝑎𝑔𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑛𝑒.
𝐵𝑢𝑡 𝑖𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑠𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑠 𝑜𝑓 𝐷𝑖𝑛 𝐷𝑗𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑛: 𝐼 𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑑𝑑𝑠.
𝑆𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑙𝑦,
𝐼𝑚𝑚𝑜𝑟𝑡𝑒𝑠
You're not supposed to pet the dogs of Chernobyl
I was one of them, a glass delusion,
a swallowed glass piano. Afraid
I could only shatter.
Fractals under my skin itched my body translucent
— the only cure was to set me on fire,
show me I was never that kind of fragile;
side effects include an incurable feralness.
Don’t touch me.
In lieu of a pyre, a poet taught me to swear,
gave me all the words a mother couldn’t.
Pull back my lips,
see what I’ve learned, my teeth. They’re sharp
and this is good. See, she’s given me back my claws,
shown me how to use them;
to paint them and to let the paint chip. Don’t touch me.
Remember, softness is a honey trap. I will tear you open,
toxic the wound.
Don’t touch me. Don’t
touch me.
Aelin vibes god
I'm pretty sure that I'll be lucky if I don't fail this test. Totally ran out of time. Also I would've preferred to take it Thursday, but no i have to take the last part TODAY according to my teacher. I don't even feel prepared.
Guess a good life is not for me. *x*
also c'boath, mara jade, and revan I agree with. No idea who the others are.
I also wanna add Ventress - IK she's dead but like - give her more screentime. I think she had a great arc (plus her chemistry with quinlain playboy vos is TO DIE FOR) also her uhhh relationship with kenobi is hilarious. <~<
"Thank you, Eli, for being the greatest friend ever." - Fenrys