5

Family of Five

Fifth-ranked of the founding Families of Hvee

Who settled the garden world in §79,

Seeking their transcendental paradise.

But Five is decimated by the chill of §305.

Two lines remain, the eldest:

Aurelius (§348-402), betrothed to a daughter of Ten; Benjamin (§352-460), celibate;

And the hopes of this highborn Family devolve on the child of Aurelius: Aton (§374-400)

Aton, agonist;

Aton, protagonist;

Contending for the knowledge of the nature of evil; Condemned for that contention.

Aton -- while your body dies in prison, your emotion lives beyond; Yet both are one: your death reflects your life.

Every episode you suffer here parallels your other existence, Now

And in the past

And in the time to come.

Aton, Aton -- child of the sun --

Come, come to our nether world:

We have need of the damned.

I. Aton

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