The Parry Is Wrong." - Drizzt Do'urden

A World Without Dragons Is A World Not Worth Living In.

Emotion Clouds The Rational, And Many Perspectives Guide The Full Reality. To View Current Events As A Historian Is To Account For All Perspectives, Even Those Of Your Enemy. It Is To Know The Past And To Use Such Relevant History As A Template For Expectations. It Is, Most Of All, To Force Reason Ahead Of Instinct, To Refuse To Demonize That Which You Hate, And To, Most Of All, Accept Your Own Fallibility.

How Many People Long For That "past, Simpler, And Better World," I Wonder, Without Ever Recognizing The Truth That Perhaps It Was They Who Were Simpler And Better, And Not The World About Them?

I Am Sorry," Was All Drizzt Could Quietly Mouth. Vierna Shook Her Head, Refusing Any Apology. To Drizzt, It Seemed As If That Buried Part Of Her That Was Zaknafein Do'urden's Daughter Approved Of This Ending.

We Are All Dying, Every Moment That Passes Of Every Day. That Is The Inescapable Truth Of This Existence. It Is A Truth That Can Paralyze Us With Fear, Or One That Can Energize Us With Impatience, With The Desire To Explore And Experience, With The Hope- Nay, The Iron-will!- To Find A Memory In Every Action. To Be Alive, Under Sunshine, Or Starlight, In Weather Fair Or Stormy. To Dance With Every Step, Be They Through Gardens Of Flowers Or Through Deep Snows.