The Phoenix' call

there are options / are there options?

Context: https://hpmor.com/chapter/85


you can answer the Phoenix’ call.

you cannot do it for a price

not for glory, not for praise, not for your happy price

you cannot do it because you should.

you cannot do it knowing it is your last chance.

there is a kind of courage, honor, integrity

only ever known when you know not the cost of your action

and then must choose.


a person calculative, prudent, sane, for good

can’t answer the Phoenix’s call

for good.

is it the good choice?


a person desperate, reckless, defiant, for good

can answer the Phoenix’s call

for good.

is it the good choice?


none will ever know.