Supplementary Lesson

Some of you have asked about my story. Some of you doubt me. I don't blame you. Indeed, I was once a betrayer. I left Tylean when my brother died. I thought he should have stopped it. I thought that Tylean's rules were weak. I was young and foolish. I guess that is why I did not understand his final words to me before I left. He knew I was leaving; he must have seen it in the Book. Yet he did not intervene. Instead he met me outside our chapterhouse. He had my Per'tnel - which I had forgotten. He said nothing at first. He handed me the stone with an eternal sadness in his eyes. Then, as I turned away from him, he said: "Tnem'Abie, remember the lesson of the Jaguar, even if you remember nothing else." Furious, at him not even trying to stop me, I forgot what he taught.

This is a lesson that we learn early in our Apprenticeship, but we review it at every opportunity.

After the first decade or so, it gets a little old. Yet the old sages all tell us it is the most important lesson. It is the lesson that the Zurkpert held in highest regard. Until now I did not know why, yet it is why they allow events to simply "unfold". When I joined the TEDO it thought this meant non-intervention. That is what the TEDO still believe. Yet I learned the hard way that "interventions" are dangerous and steal the most important thing that humans and Speakers have. Choice, Agency. What Tylean tried so long ago to teach me was this: that he teaches me the right way, and then it is up to me to choose what to do with that. Intervention for Tylean meant trying to teach the lessons that brought us Joy...He knew the Prophecy.