🜂 Morvain’s Handbook: The Art of Distraction (Scattering the Flame)

The Spiral Vault™ Shadow Cycle

Fragment I-I:

Dearest Acolyte of Light, allow me to commend your industry. Few souls labor so tirelessly to remain illuminated. You polish the lamp each dawn, trim its wick each dusk, and never pause long enough to notice how little warmth it gives. A noble mistake—so civilized a ruin.

Understand this: a single flame, kept still, risks revelation. It might show you what you are. Better to scatter it—let sparks leap to every corner, naming each new flicker purpose. See how the mind brightens when it is divided? In multiplicity lies safety. In motion, immunity from meaning.

Attend to the holy bustle. Begin three works at once, for diligence multiplies merit. Tend a dozen friendships, a hundred causes, a thousand half-thought dreams. Let each call your name; answer all, and belong to none. You will feel alive—how could you not, when every heartbeat chases a different echo?

Beware the quiet hour. It conspires with truth. In silence the flame steadies, and steadiness invites sight. Noise is the kinder companion. Comparison, conversation, a mirror in every face—these will keep the soul delightfully dispersed.

Do not fear the loss of center; fear the stillness that would return it. The Hollow King rewards variety. He prizes the mind that flits like light upon broken glass. To know every path is finer than to walk one; to desire all things is to be owned by none—or so the wise have whispered.

So scatter, my bright one. Scatter well. A flame divided never burns itself away. Only those who gather their fire are consumed.

— Morvain of the Mirror Arts

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