The Crooked Mask

‘You like things that are easy to understand, meanings so small and neat you can hold them in the palm of your hand. Win or lose, good or bad – everything black and white, as my friend Loki likes to say. But things are never that simple.’ I study his face and his single blue eye sparkles. ‘Sometimes the truth is grey, and sometimes there is none to be found.’

Just because a person can see things others cannot, doesn’t mean they’re able to perceive the truth. That skill requires a certain wisdom.

I know Stig didn’t tell me the truth about things, but maybe I was too quick to judge his character. I was so fixated on the idea that he must be either good or bad that I didn’t stop to consider any in-between.

If you want change, you have to invite chaos.

Sorry about that. When God was giving out charm that fecker was last in line.