The Mangler's Mockery

Nuugakah left The Mangler's Mockery as a note to a peacekeeper who tried to capture them, just after they took an alternative path to ascension.

These feeble formalities that you call laws, I can bend them and break them as I wish; I am restrained only by fear. Fear of what my comrades think, fear of what is to come, fear of what I will become. So what happens, I would ask, when one is bound to lose just one thing too many? Their family, their life, their mind? In this place, where the last waving and tattered shred of fear is unceremoniously cut down, they say, “as is a flag from the foes’ mast”, you will find the heroes who think themselves wicked, the wicked who think themselves heroes, and the ones that sicken all who hear their name. This is where all things wonderful and terrible find their origin. And I am standing right here. Might you have thought, that by “laws” I was referring to those of man? Maybe, it is true after all; Yet I did not constrain myself to the breaking of laws writ by mortal hands. I have wormed my way into the bureaucracy of heaven and rent it asunder. You can no longer catch me; I am eternally free. And you will forever be chained in my place.