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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alyx" data-source="post: 89914" data-attributes="member: 623">IC messageTo Serpenteyes and those who would work with snakes;You bring up the parable of two villages, mighty Serpenteyes.  Yet you must know that parables are limited to the case for which they were born.  Allow me to expand upon your tale, with a story of truth that I have experienced, for there are many such villages in our world.Open your eyes to a walled village of dark;An enternal bastion of war that knows no peace.This fortress borders a quiet little land;A small one, with many ties and hating the bloody hand.It came to pass, as it always does,That conflict began to wake its ugly head.It started small; of course it always does,The burning spark, the omninous buzz.A huge battle was fought between the two,A roaring ruckuss of a war, without quarter.The jungle about them moaned with every blow,The trees screamed with every spear's throw.Now the peaceful village had the upper hand,Truth had won out, had broken hate.Dark messages were sent to the warriors of light,Begging for peace; an end to the fight!An agreement was reached, one of hope,The village elders parted in peace.Except.One evil elder poured into the well poisen, an evil spell.That night the village hounds howled,The hope was snuffed out....Serpenteyes, one does not take a serpent to your breast.  Perhaps one day, trust may be possible.  But I have seen too many snakes shed their skin to consider any change anything but suspicious.........OOC:Excuse the effront to poetry.Oh, and I better be reading the situation right <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />.</blockquote>

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