[ ghost chews. kaveh considers this. once again, he's struck by the glass slipper and the apple. how many people, statistically speaking, would have one or the other of those befall them? well, to start off with, the likelihood of choking on an apple compared to having found a glass slipper is far higher by pure dint of there being more apples than glass shoes. but why are these two events placed under the same significance? is it because of the event itself, the perceived rarity of it, because of the people involved, or because of the story told from it?

kaveh looks. he takes another bite of stew. ]

I would. There's a fury in me whenever I see someone using the concept of truth to justify unilaterally believing in their own misery. If someone else came up to me and told me they didn't have a story, I'd say very much the same thing: Ghost happened to you. Why aren't you grateful for it? It's Ghost.

[ hm. ] I haven't even gotten to the conjoined part, though. We're still at the part where I'm trying to convince you that you have a story that can be told, and is worth telling. Netzach is a plot device in yours right now.