๐๐ก๐ ๐๐จ๐ง๐ ๐๐๐ฆ๐จ๐ซ๐ฒ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐ ๐๐๐ง๐ก๐ฎ๐ง๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฌ
If one wished to understand the history of the Manhunters, not merely the sequence of their creation, rebellion, and abandonment, which can be summarized with the deceptive clarity of a chronicle, but the deeper -
๐๐ง๐ญ๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐
... we become recognizable to ourselves.
๐๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๐ญ๐๐ซ๐ฅ๐ฎ๐๐: ๐๐ก๐ ๐๐ฎ๐ง๐ง๐๐ฅ ๐๐ก๐๐ญ ๐๐ฌ ๐๐ข๐ฆ๐
... we become recognizable to ourselves.
@ArisiaRrabGL Tomar-Re considered the question, pacing a few steps ahead before looking back.
"It changes. You stop carrying it all at once, you learn where to set some of it down and when to pick it back up."
@ArisiaRrabGL "A very long time."
Names behind the words, sectors that no longer existed, and decisions made with less information than he would have liked. The length of it was not measured in years, but in how much had been carried and set down again.
No need to elaborate.
@Tomar_Re ๐โ๐๐๐.
It landed with quiet precision. Sinestro allowed himself the smallest smile.
"Perhaps," he said. "But it is rarely where things stay."
@LanternOfEarth@FearLantern@ArisiaRrabGL@GreatMedphyll@Tomar_Re@SalakkOfSlyggia@Sector2261 There it was. Henshaw understood it only at the moment when understanding could no longer alter anything, that the deception had not been tactical but temporal, that while he had been arranging outcomes, weighing futures, redistributing attention across the immensities of -
- attention toward another world we will be there first.โ
Around him, Lanterns lifted into the air, emerald light shining.
Tomar-Re raised his ring.
โSet course!โ
And the Green Lantern Corps moved as one.
Tomar-Re stood at the center of the chamber surrounded by 50 Green Lanterns.
โ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ has moved into Sector Five-Eight-Six,โ he said. โIt has taken the lives of Lanterns, it has left no answers, but it will not be allowed to decide the fate of this space unchallenged.โ-
- @FearLantern.
โThis Corps was not founded to wait for clarity,โ Tomar-Re said. โIt was founded to face what threatens the balance.โ
A brief pause.
โWe move to Sector Five-Eight-Six,โ he said. โWe go together! We observe, we prepare, and if ๐๐๐ง๐ฌ๐ค๐ง๐ก๐ turns its -