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Gather round ye dreamers, and allow me a tale to tell! 

===A tale of Fate... and a tale of Folly.===

Once upon a time, there was Fate. Fate believed she was the captain of her own destiny, and rode that destiny like a ship to her final destination, but she did not know where she was going. Fate thought about it, and realized. She didn't have any reason to go anywhere at all. So Fate captained her ship to the nearest Lighthouse, and asked it, "Where is your destination? Where is my destination?"

The Lighthouse answered her, "I have no destination. I am a Lighthouse. I see ships safely into the harbor, and out again. You should be like me, Fate."

But Fate did not like this suggestion. Next Fate captained her ship out to sea. She wanted to get as far from the Lighthouse as she could, and sailed for the wide Ocean. Not long into her journey, the ocean revealed to her a Whale. Thinking what a generous opportunity she had happened upon, she asked it, "Where is your destination? Where is my destination?"

The whale answered her, "I follow the krill, my destination is ever-food. Where my next meal is, I can be found. You should follow food too, such that you can be nourished." Fate thought about this, but decided that food alone could not sustain her. Her destination must be grander than this. She thanked the Whale, and captained her ship onward still.

Fate captained her ship for many years after that encounter, avoiding land and sea creature alike. Weary and exhausted, one day she let go of the wheel. She lay on the deck of her ship, and heard the Ocean whispering to her then. She whispered back, in a broken voice, "Where is your destination? Where is my destination?"

And the Ocean spoke to her, soothing words of comfort, words only she could hear. No one knows what it told her. No one knows if she died there on that boat, or if she still captains her boat across the Ocean for answers.

As Performed By Em'et Etormkin

===Reference===
https://forums.underlight.com/viewtopic.php?f=41&t=4950&p=17758&hilit=Tales#p17758

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