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When all was still Good, and the Old Custodians were yet strangers to the Holy Land, the Mother held the Garden until there were Red things, and Green things, and Blue things. Like limpets on seaside stone, the Garden clung to Her, suckling until its belly swelled with Life. Then it tore itself loose, and invited multitudes, until Life at last compassed the World. And then the Garden spake aloud with a blasphemer's tongue, "I AM KULA MOTHER-TRUE, FOR ALL QUICKENS WHEN MY WANT IS QUENCHED!"

This is how Kula became Wyld.

"Wrong, Indignant One!" cried the Wheel. "Wrong! Wrong! Yours is not the Mothering!" And then Kula felt naked, and she sprouted legs with which to seek out the Voice of Motion, which move'd all and knew the Secret of Water, which she coveted dearly. She skittered to the depths, knowing that its Speaker dwelleth there, and wove a Web about its door that she might catch Him.

This is how Kula became Wyld.

For one thousand nights and one thousand days did Kula await Him, but nary a thing moved her Net. Until then she saw that dew mark'd her Web like pearls, and that in the pearls was the Wisdom, which she understood was the Wisdom of the Man in the Water. "Sacred Surrogate, know that we are like the Spider," whispered the Wisdom. "Who weaves life and then moves along it. We are like the dreamer who dreams and then lives inside that dream." Kula then saw that she was Spinning, and cried, "Then who has Dreamt me?" For a time all fell silent, and then Kula began a foul screaming.

This is how Kula became Wyld.

LECHERY. THE HARLOT WHOSE HEART IS SNARES AND NETS!

And then the Wheel spun, and a Man came out in spirals from the depths. The Voice of Motion was upon the clean Waters. It thundered that the rings shall be for the places of the staves to bear the table. And this burst open the Spirit of the Man, for he was the seat of this secret wisdom, and then the Sun screamed fire. And then the World heard. And all was awake.

This is why Agaslakku turned a Warrior. 

The Man then came to know the garden, who conceived and bore him fifty score, which he knew not. And then he saw that they were the beasts of the Earth, the winged fowl of the Sky, and the trawlers in the Water, and he saw that they rose up against one another in Murder. And the Man stopped them with his axe and said unto them, Why doth thou Kill? And they cried, WE ARE THE FURY OF THINE OWN MOMENTUM. 

This is why Agaslakku turned a Warrior.

He looked into the Waters and saw that he was not at all a Man, and he saw he had horns, and that he knew himself not. He thrashed and spat and wore a bad aspect. The Voice of Motion then called from the depths and said, Yours is the three-syllable word AGAS-LAH-AKHU for you are Destruction who is the Maker of Nothing. And then He-Who-Became-Agaslakku broke his axe, for he knew now that he had horns.

This is why Agaslakku turned a Warrior.

[STRIFE. WARRIOR MEETS DESTRUCTION.]

STRIFE. WARRIOR MEETS DESTRUCTION.