"Mm, yes. Morality is quite outside of that. It's what one does with said magic, that determines whether one follows the path of Above or Below -- or none at all," although to Akua, that was rarer than anything else they spoke of.

"There doesn't seem to be such restrictions here -- instead the divide is between... hope and despair, it seems. Give in to a world that should be obliterated, and start with a clean slate -- or improve what is already there."

She would have thought dealing with the Bard would be the end of it, but here she was, fighting the same fight as before. Somewhere, she wondered if Yara of Nowhere, was laughing with glee, at her victory.