Title: Precedence
(Chax continues to introspect as the scenes show the spikes and spines of Susekho, the home of the Oistrem.)
The Craisht values Precedence... Oistrem history, as written in the record of our Names.
Precedence, that what had gone before should be preserved from error, that time-tested customs and the heroes who created them should be honored. That the world should continue to function as it always has.
But Precedence also said that an Oistrem could sometimes defy the Craisht, and be right in so doing.
That I am still alive at all implies that there was Precedence for an Oistrem journeying with a Strasmin, for Strasmin and Oistrem to, on certain occasions, not fight to the death. And that... No.
I should not think about this anymore.
