Foundations

Caiphus: What is the foundation of relation?

Moralam: Interaction.

Caiphus: What is the foundation of friendship?

Moralam: Love.

Caiphus: What is the foundation of love?

Moralam: Friction.

Caiphus: How does friction relate?

Moralam: It is relation at its core, an essential disturbance of difference, caressing and coursing and causing to flame. It is each one of us when we are laid bare and made whole by our incompleteness in one another.

Caiphus: How then do we love?

Moralam: It is an illusion – we do not love. Love, e’re so briefly, chooses to inhabit us. We do not control or command it, it controls us; we are at its mercy.

Caiphus: Mercy?

Moralam: Love overflows with it.