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• Filia: Ahmis.
• Filia: Home at last, to Circle's End.
• Ahmis: You have me at a disadvantage. Have we met?
• Filia: We have, when I was very young.
  You were a guest speaker in my province, and I was a young Seeker desperate to hear a talk from the great Maker.
• Ahmis: Ah. You honor me.
• Filia: I did. But not today.
  Today I come to you not as that Seeker, but as Keeper of the Hall of Spirits.
• Ahmis: Keeper?! But how did you...
• Filia: While my genetics might have failed me, there were Makers that never did. They ignored the ancient strictures, and showed me a path I could walk with footfalls all my own.
• Filia: A few key words of encouragement, and my path was changed.
  In one century, I moved from Seeker to Maker, and from Maker to Keeper of the Hall itself! I sit now in the Colegium, serving as counsel to Maker Primes.
• Filia: I bowed to you that day, Ahmis, as you exited your speech.
• Filia: And you... paused.
  Stopped to take me in.
• Filia: Our people can be so cruel, that I didn't know what to expect from you. But you whispered words of kindness. A gift freely given, to a Seeker desperately in need of a gift.
  Which breaks my heart, that we have arrived at this day.
  TAKE HIM AWAY!
• [Filia stares grumpily]
• Filia: [whispering] "Your birth is not your future," you whispered.
• Filia: [whispering] "Never forget that you are the omnipotent narrator of your life."

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