Some of Our Humanity
The cost for acquiring those powers was some of our humanity.Our fate is not ours anymore. Every incarnation has to come to terms with it: we are not what we choose to be, we can't go where we choose to go. There is a snake coiled in our breast, a desire to protect so strong that we can't overcome it. And I know it isn't there because "that's just how I am". I know it's there because I am a Guardian. It's a shackle.
I wonder if there are Guardians who denounced their fate. Gerard the Warrior of Fire surely had to defect, otherwise he wouldn't have left his family and homeland to roam until he was frail with old age. Incarnation swept him up again and nothing became of his deeds. His defiance is gone. Only duty remains.
If you know a part of you is alien, do you still try to live in harmony with it? Of course you do. There is no other way to live, to go on every day. You embrace the duty. That is the only way to survive.
