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[thecrossingmods]

[The Crossing is coming again.

There is no advance warning from The Ferryman this time. There is nothing to draw your attention towards the message that appears on your device, whatever it may be, except perhaps the expectation that it should be appearing soon.

Whether you think to check for it or you simply stumble upon it, the words are there just as before:]

A toll to be levied for safe passage
from the desert to ǝɹǝɥʍǝsʅǝ

envision a place of comfort and safety
a haven from the wants and ills of life
be it for a moment or for a lifetime

offer it to The Ferryman
and let go

Comments

[hasapoint]

It's more likely that this 'system' doesn't exist in every world. Certainly not in mine. We have the Gifted and some among them become very important but if they are 'most important' it's only from the point of view of those who obsess over that sort of thing.

[A simplification, but she's not going to explain the classes of Gifts.]

[blindluck]

I guess it's possible. [There are a lot of strange worlds out there, apparently.] But hope is universal, and those who create hope will always be the most important, regardless of how you refer to them.

[hasapoint]

I've seen a lot of people who accomplished a lot of things but never some objective 'most important person'. Just subjective viewpoints that say something about the one who views. Very little separates those considered important from those considered not.

And hope's good and everything but relying on nothing but is a thin gruel. I'm more interested in those without hope and who yet don't break.

[blindluck]

That just means those people have hope inside them that hasn't been fully revealed yet!

[hasapoint]

Or they're driven by something else but I can see you're unshakeable on that point.

[Need considers going back and underlining 'that sounds terrible' again but no she shouldn't be petty. She's got to let the kids have their own points of view.]

[blindluck]

Of course. Hope is the most important thing in the world. In any world!