A note to our Readers regarding
the ‘new’ Characters who will soon be showing up in the short stories of SONG:
You know how I’ve often told you to look for yourselves among our Characters
because it is you, the people of today’s world, who are the living Characters
on whom the fictional ones are based? Do not look for yourselves among this new
batch because you will not be there. The Readers of SONG are not the sort of
folk to be found there … and it is not for them that SONG is written, but for
YOU.
If by chance you are one of those
others who think you might find your own representation in the followers of Aduan,
the ‘bad guys’ of SONG, know that you may well run across somebody who reminds
you of yourself in some ways. But know also that you will not search for long,
because you will not want to look further. We’re fine with that, because it is
not you for whom these stories are written in the first place. We already know
that you will not like what you find in them; you aren’t supposed to like it.
People of Peace we and our
Characters may be – but there are hate-filled folk in the world who do not find
the concept of Peace the least bit appealing. If you are among those folk, SONG
is not for you. The battles of SONG are fought at times against naturally
occurring events and the aftermath. More often they are fought against
intolerance; against subjugation of women (or anyone else); against anyone who
would restrict the freedom to choose one’s own life-path and follow it; against
violent aggression aimed at innocent populations marked for ‘submission’;
against individuals who have no qualms at all about seeking to destroy the life
of another by any available means; against those who would deny the sanctity of
the Holy Trinity in Its true form; against any and all who seek to harm others
for malicious reasons.
Hiding our faces from those who
follow the above path is not the way of our Characters, or of we ourselves. At
times, yes, prudence dictates strategic retreats. But there is always a line
beyond which our Characters, and their representatives in today’s world, will
not be pushed. Harm none and you are safe among us. Raise your fist or a weapon
against any innocent one, and all bets are off. Our Characters are in general
an easy-going lot. Almost anything goes and everyone’s rights are equally
respected – but nobody has the right to attack the equal rights of others. If/when
that point needs to be made, it will be made by the Characters of SONG – past,
present, and future.
So here is the line drawn.
Readers, you will find your own
self among the Characters we have already met (but for Aduan).
We are about to
introduce the ‘bad guys’.
Do not look for yourselves among them.
You’re not
there.
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