Thinking without the restraint of actuality leads you toward infinite wisdom. Henceforth, logic is not always the key, sometimes the opposite is.
And this is not foolishness. This is what a true genius does very often. To think from an entirely different angle is to see what you have always been looking at but never actually seen.
It is simply a matter of perspective. Ask the grass, and the deer is the monster. Ask the grass, and the lion is its only protector.
The truth does not change.
And sometimes, one shift in angle is enough to overturn everything you believed you knew.
* * *
As the silence stretched beyond the rising waves, rain began to fill it.
Leon gazed down at the man bowing before him.
Bronze hair, a smooth scar-free face, and eyes that looked to have witnessed strokes of centuries. He looked completely different from the one Leon had remembered. Not a single trace of his facial features overlapped with the name he had always attached to that legend.
