Spirit's Anchor, The Dreaming City
The Guardian speaks with Riven.
Riven: So many wish to be closer with their family. The absent and the estranged cause rifts in a person's psyche. I hear them even now: “Let me speak to my father again, one last time.” “Let my daughter see me for who I am.” One of the stranger human impulses, don't you find? Above all, Ahamkara want to feed. To drink deep of the gulf between desire and reality. Other Ahamkara are competitors for limited resources, not allies. The only exception… is a mate. Sometimes, we reach beyond ourselves. Perhaps if we stood by one another more, we'd have survived the Great Hunt. If we were a little more… Human. But that bargain is not within our natures to make.