[HQ Ignorance] Scene 117: The Cycle of Lei Tabor

[Nicolas Hughes]

Aalmon listened to the crickets, soothing though they were he did not think they were going to answer any questions. He tried not to look up, his strange double vision was disturbing him, although perhaps the Fourth was the most disturbing - why did his vision seem to change everything but the little trollkin. It was almost like a strange itching at the back of his mind, he should know why, he did know why but somehow he could not think it. He blinked and the game came back into focus, he had to concentrate on the moment, he had to answer the question for the crickets would not.

"If you wish a quick victory rather than preserving pieces for the long game then it does require sacrifice. What it is? That is the question. Sometimes the sacrifice is of our ambitions or pre-conceptions, we give these things up to achieve our goals. But then sometimes we do sacrifice people, or they sacrifice themselves. The game reveals its own meaning if we let it."

He pauses to slowly move a pawn, then spoke again to his opponent in this game

"I do not play a perfect game, nor do I perfectly understand the insight that it gives. If I did then my brother would be alive. Perhaps Uncle Pyotr is right, look carefully to the bishop and  what do you see General?"

Nic


On 12 Jan 2011, at 14:02, Lev Lafayette wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 13:20 +1100, Lev Lafayette wrote:
>> General Ho Ki gradually gains an increased interest in the game and
>> starts describing the pieces in terms of the capabilities of those
>> forces around him. Aalmon picks up the cue and starts playing as if he
>> represented the forces of Tabor, numerically far superior but enclosed
>> within their walled city.
>> 
>> "But they also want to leave", Ho Ki says to Aalmon. "This I know, the
>> rulers of Lei Tabor feel that they are strangers and outcasts in this
>> land, and they wish to return to their home in Kralorela. But they are
>> forbidden to do so, because their forebears acted against the Emperor
>> and were cast into this desert."
>> 
>> He flicks a stone absent-mindedly. "As were mine..."
> 
> There is a long silence, punctuated only by crickets chirping in the
> night. Uncle Pyotr, the Yao Fune follower shuffles over to look at the
> game between Aalmon and General Ho Ki. He looks over the game and gives
> a beatific smile.
> 
> "I hear to capture a King that is in his castle, you ought to sacrifice
> a Bishop"
> 
> 
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