"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

Futility is the defining characteristic of life.

I had no intention of pursuing either the characters or the setting further.

Part of him wanted to weep... but his purpose was rigid within him. He felt he could not bend to gentleness without breaking.

"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

Are you a person—with volition and maybe some stubbornness and at least the capacity if not the actual determination to do something surprising—or are you a tool? A tool just serves its user. It’s only as good as the skill of its user, and it’s not good for anything else. So if you want to accomplish something special—something more than you can do for yourself—you can’t use a tool. You have to use a person and hope the surprises will work in your favor. You have to use something that’s free to not be what you had in mind.