This past year, we have all discovered ourselves a little more. One more day, one more breath, one more piece of information. We gather ourselves from Time, we weave ourselves into Eternity. That is the process of life. We search, all, for power and hopefulness and love. No matter what race we are or where we're from or how many centuries we've walked this Earth, we are looking for good things. Our hopes will always unify is, whether we are high and powerful or lowly and poor.
Therefore, the hopes that unify us deserve nothing less than our total faith.
For many years, that hope, for all, has been placed upon me; it has been my honor to lead the Roses through these many years of difficult negotiation. Many of us have worked countless hours to maintain the Peace so many take for granted among you, my people. It warms the edges of an immortal heart to realize that it is so expected it may be taken so; that Peace. It gives my angry heart solace to realize that you feel safe enough for that; despite the weight of my burdens.
Noble-hearted beings, Roses, and Allies, to you I say that those burdens are taken for granted just as easily as the hard-won peace. This past year my heart has learned the burden of Love. True and utter Love. With that Love I have shown to all of you my humanity, what of it remains lies in the heart of your new councilwoman. May you trust her fully, may you listen without doubt her wisdom and judgment when she arises to her throne.
I am not without weakness, my brothers, my sisters. As all of you, I have weaknesses. And, like you, my weaknesses make me stronger.
Weakness is not a thing to be feared, it is a thing to be admired and utilized. To know our weakness is to know what we would protect, and from whom. It is to know what you would be willing to die to protect, bleed to protect, suffer to protect. Without our weakness, we lose the humanity all have striven to maintain. Without our weakness, we are only the faces we wear to the outside world. We do not have love or kindness or goodness in us without the fear or pain or fury or sadness. To lose one is to lose both, and this is something I would weep golden tears to hear has been done.
Yea, you hear me well: the rumors of my weakness is true. She lives and breathes in the human world, untroubled as yet by the plight of immortality and the weight of my power on her shoulders. She is the reason I am willing to allow Azrael's hands to way waste to me night after night.
And without that Love, I would not be before you now. Remember this before you pass your judgment. Let the knowledge of my weakness be on your memory sweetly, as an equalizer, rather than another barrier in a world of expectation and rank.
All of us, my people, have Loved: may our next goal be forgiveness. To each other....
and to ourselves.
Aqe Vale
Eliac
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