0ffshoot of Unbending intent

[glance left]

Code orange....I see it.  And its roots.  Maybe the recap will help track them way down in the dirt. 

I don't know what animals or lichen want.  Maybe, at their core, what every living thing wants....to live to transcend or to die to just be done with it....I've been on that fence many times.  More so, though, when an orange conflagration has flared.   

What color was in play when burning the log?  Certainly not orange, predominantly.  Can blue coexist when inevitably killing to survive?  Alignment amidst all this ironic day-to-day stuff....seems impossible....almost