Significant Symmetries

Strong curtain walls stand as haven boundaries, sequestering tiny morsels of hope. Forced into migration by a stalking corruption, the last of civilization survives in isolated pockets.

Valentine is a young man seeking knowledge. Ravaging the world for its secrets, Valentine deploys distasteful and desperate approaches. He becomes, by serendipity and by blind persistence, an interfering force in the scheme of evil.

Quinn finds herself a pawn in the hands of evil. She willingly accepts the part in her dejected state, grateful for a purpose. In joining the dark she plays a key role in the search of ancient artifacts necessary for conquering the last of the strongholds.

Two main characters, demons, a broken world of dreams, mischievous ghosts, obnoxious crows. Dark serious philosophy, contoured by wry humor and a little psychology, all neatly bound by narrative.

"Content in looking, we are enthralled. We believe that truth is obligatory to the very act of peering- eyes wide agape- at the contents of life. In time, however, we will find that it is sight that still owes its dues to knowledge. We will find it only in blindness. Only when we despair in falsehood; only when we break through into an absolute understanding of things, and tear from our vision the aspects of blues and greens, red and violets. We will find it only when we see the world in black and white, nuanced by greys."