What is this place? The Shard.
What are these books that we read? The cosmere, the others.
Who is this man? Brandon
Who are we?
we are the broken. The radiants in training. We are the beaten down. We are the stressed, the heavy laden, and the faint. We are the dregs, and yet the cream of society. We are the future, and we are hope. We read; to escape, to leave behind everything within mortal bounds. To escape the realities, to escape the stress. We read, and we read. Our hearts are enraptured by that great unknown. The infinite possibilities, all flowing onto the page. Forming into epic stories, wondrous tales. Tales of other worlds. Yes, this is where we escape to. The fantastic unfolding of plots, secrets, plans. The heroes who fought, bled, strained, triumphed, died, and survived. The clashes of Gods, the stories spanning ages. We drink it all in. In through the cracks in our souls, filling us, making us feel while for a time. This is our sweet escape. And from these examples, these heroes and warriors we reverence, we see into ourselves. We see who we are. We build ourselves up, we learn from them, and from ourselves. And we grow.
And here we make friends, others who are broken. Friendships forged through fires. The fires that break us, the heat that cracks our souls. But where we are broken, we can expand. To fix a piece of fabric, you must add more thread, or more cloth. When the heat comes for us, yes we are hurts but when we heal, we grow, and not only that, but we can grow together. Meld with the souls of others. Find connection with our peers. And our souls will rise together, learning, growing, reading.