Balance. A balance in all things, yeah? There was some sense of status quo in the way the world works. From the natural water cycle to every other food chain out there, nothing is ever lost in the middle of each process; the world maintaining the same base matter and ingredients in its system only in a different manner or form. Perhaps there would be some loss of energy along the way, but overall, nothing was ever lost in the grand scheme of things. Even income inequality worked like this, unfortunately. Money needs to be scarce to have value, and thus the poor and the rich exist to keep the rich rich and the poor penniless to keep the value at a rate that would help the economy. And while I wouldn't portray myself to be a harbinger of balance in anything, I was still a big advocate of fairness in an unfair world. And the explosion that echoed from the front door was just the inequality balance I needed t

My mind whirred at the implications of what this Prime just revealed to me. Did he mean that he taught Mother everything she knew? Or was he just a tutor of some sort? What was his relationship with her? A former superior? Did that mean that he was in the upper echelons of the Prime Thirteen? Or was it- "Calm your head, Little Eul," the Prime shook me from my thoughts as he laughed out loud. "Keep your head straight and fight hard." I blinked at the man that actually just gave me sound advice. A part of me was really starting to like the guy, but he still trapped Livia in a dome of earth. I couldn't just let that slide for my own sake. Also, "Little Eul?" That was my mother's name... So he really did know her before. "Eul was your mother, correct?" the Prime pointed out as he put his fists up. "You're practically her sp