0 - The Fool
Jul 10, 2019
One foot in front of the next—
Leather heels digging deep into fresh mud:
on time, on beat.
Marching forth towards the fringe.
A plastered smile to conceal his fear—
he left in hopes of taking part in something greater than himself.
That was before.
Now he just fights to keep his name from being etched next to his brothers',
engraved on that cold, grey, forgotten stone.
When I learned of the Fool's card, what stuck with me was the naivety.
Not that it was inherently bad or good, but just that it was, and I wanted to write something that mirrored that.
At first, the story was more literal, being about a jester -- his role as one known by all except him -- but after much drafting and revision, the iteration that I had decided upon was one of a soldier, who starts of green, becomes drenched in red, and ends up like most things in life: just a vague, murky shade of gray.
— Hario
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The chapter and the author's note are both equally works of art and I feel like I've been punched in the chest
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