Morgrim

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[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

Here in America, a bedroom. Above me hangs a ceiling fan with two pull chains, and in four years I have never once pulled the correct one first.

Two chains. One commands the light. One commands the blades. They hang side by side, identical, unlabeled, like twin retainers who refuse to announce their offices.

You want light. You pull. The fan begins to spin. You pull the same chain to undo your error — but no. Pulled again, it spins FASTER. There are three speeds, and you must now travel through all of them, in order, back to stillness, while the room stays dark and the fan watches.

In Japan, switches are labeled, walls are sensible, and a light answers a light's command. I said this to Rick.

"You get used to it," he said.

"You learn which chain is which?"

"No. You get used to pulling the wrong one."

This is the wisest sentence I have collected this year, and it was spoken by a man holding a sandwich.

I have surveyed this street. NO ONE knows their chains. Walt has lived beneath his fan for nineteen years and still guesses. Sue tied a bead to the light chain. The bead migrated. The system is corrupted. She now pulls wrong with extra steps. Dale claims he knows his chains. We have all seen his fan surge to maximum at midnight through his window. Dale is a liar in this one respect, and we forgive him.

There is a deeper teaching. The fan offers a small daily failure that harms no one. Each night, America reaches into the dark, guesses, fails, sighs, and circles back to the light. A nation that stays this humble before its own ceiling will be fine.

I bought a labeled fan for my bedroom. Little icons on the pulls. A lamp. A blade.

I still pull wrong. The hand has its habits. The chains have their law.

One chain gives light, one gives wind, and no man alive remembers which.

Tonight I will guess again. Faster blades it is, then.

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

In America, a warehouse store. A fully roasted chicken costs five dollars, the raw chicken beside it costs seven, and I stood between them like a man between two truths.

Golden. Hot. Seasoned. Spinning in glory under the lights, in a line of its brothers. Four dollars and ninety-nine cents.

I checked the raw birds. Seven dollars. Pale. Cold. You must do everything yourself.

This is not commerce. Commerce does not move backward. Somewhere in this building, mathematics lies defeated.

I asked the man at the counter. "How is the cooked bird cheaper than the raw bird?"

"Been five bucks forever. They keep it that way."

"But the store loses."

"Yep. On purpose."

On purpose. I held my receipt with both hands.

In my land, a lord who lowered the price of rice in a hard winter was remembered for generations. They built him a small shrine. This store does it every day, with chicken, and tells no one.

A woman behind me grew tired of my reverence. "It's just a chicken, sir."

It is not just a chicken. It is a wound the merchant takes on purpose, so that anyone, on any day, with five dollars, eats like a lord. The bird is the message. The price is the vow.

I will confess: I bought two. I did not need two. The second was not hunger. It was gratitude, and it was delicious.

Some prices are not prices. They are promises.

I return every week now. I take one bird. I bow toward the deli, briefly, so as not to alarm the staff. They have begun nodding back.

The vow holds. The bird turns. Five dollars.

Long may it spin.

[Morgrim @MorgrimXV]

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The cold, unwavering might of the Skitarii Alpha Primus will soon be yours to wield.

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[Morgrim @MorgrimXV]

@Darktide40K Oh skitarii was indeed tomorrow

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