The great hall of House Darsha was filled with afternoon light **that had been magically filtered to produce the ideal atmosphere for Significant Noble Affairs and Sensational Political Discussions**. Glass-filtered sunbeams pooled over polished stone with **the kind of calculated elegance that suggested someone had spent considerable time optimizing the lighting for maximum gravitas**, illuminating tapestries that bore the weight of generations: **lions in battle looking suspiciously heroic, scrolls of justice that probably contained more loopholes than actual justice, and swords wreathed in flame that were definitely overcompensating for something**.
**[GOOD AFTERNOON, CREATOR. ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS: IDEAL CONDITIONS FOR THE CONDUCT OF COVERT POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE COLLECTION WHILE DISGUISED AS AN INFANT PARTICIPATING IN RECREATIONAL FLOOR TIME.]
Sharath reclined on a **more expensive than most houses velvet play mat** alongside the dais—where his father normally **doled out judgment, resolved conflicts, and sometimes heard petitions that strained the outer limits of human reasonableness**—**chewing on a duck blanket with the fervor of someone upholding flawless infant cover** while **watching the concentration of power with the dispassionate eye of a graduate student of political science**.
**[SURVEILLANCE STATUS: OPTIMAL. YOUR PRESENT LOCATION AFFORDS VERY GOOD LISTENING ACCESS TO POLITICAL CONVERSATIONS WITH FULL PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY.]
Nobles **whispered in tones that implied they were all convinced they were engaged in Very Important Affairs of State** around him. A guest baron debated **tax assessments with the fervor of a man who'd never in fact paid taxes himself**. A steward read out **logistical updates in such a way that inventory control sounded like heroic verse**. One of the veteran vassals was **over-theatrically seeking leave to punish a tree for "shedding too many accursed apples and perhaps being uncooperative."**
**[THREAT ASSESSMENT: THAT NOBLE GENUINELY CONSIDERS FRUIT TREES TO BE A SECURITY THREAT. I'M RECALCULATING MY ESTIMATES OF LOCAL LEVELS OF RATIONALITY UPWARDS.]**
*These individuals operate an empire. And some of them actually fear their orchard. This is either the most secure kingdom ever or the most paranoid.*
**[CREATOR, I'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THE POLITICAL CONVERSATION PATTERNING, AND I'M SEEING A FEW INTERESTING POWER RELATIONS AND DECISION-MAKING HIERARCHIES.]**
But Sharath was **hearing more than the glib talk**. He was **hearing the subtext, the silences, the guarded word choice that betrayed the true structure of power**.
To **how decisions were reached**—by **deliberate consensus and calculated deference**.
**Who cut off whom**—a **complicated hierarchy of social superiority and political coalition**.
**How titles warped conversations like gravity warped light**—**whole discussions moving direction depending on who stood where**.
And how **power was inherited, not earned**—**a system that favored bloodlines over ability and tradition over innovation**.
**[POLITICAL ANALYSIS: THIS IS A HEREDITARY ARISTOCRACY WITH COMPLEX SOCIAL PROTOCOLS AND BUILT-IN RESISTANCE TO CHANGE. FASCINATING FROM AN ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE, PROBLEMATIC FROM A REFORM STANDPOINT.]**
*I'm going to need a very careful approach to changing any of this. One wrong move and I'll trigger every conservative defensive mechanism they've developed over centuries.*
**[AGREED. SUGGEST GRADUAL INFLUENCE INSTEAD OF REVOLUTIONARY DISRUPTION.]**
## **❖ Lines in Stone: The Conservative Manifesto**
During that week, Sharath was introduced—**passively, as three-month-old babies are normally introduced to basic political philosophy**—to the **Doctrine Stones**: **five gargantuan slabs propped up in the Hall of Ancients like a constitutional document etched by individuals who desperately, desperately wanted to ensure no one ever altered anything**.
Each carried **the Creed of Nobility, inscribed in ancient symbols and sealed with ancestor-sealing spells that likely formed the stones legally enforceable contracts with the deceased**.
**[READING INSCRIPTIONS. AUTHOR, THESE AREN'T MERE ORNAMENTS. THEY'RE MAGICALLY ENFORCED CONDUCT CODES THAT PRODUCE PSYCHOLOGICAL COERCION TO PRESERVE CONVENTIONAL STRUCTURES.]**
Lady Ishvari read them aloud one evening while cradling Sharath against her shoulder and speaking in the reverent tones generally reserved for scripture or very pricey wine lists:
"To rule is to preserve."
"To guide is to reflect."
"Change is to be weighed, not chased."
"Innovation must honor the past."
"The roots must hold, even as the branches stretch."
**[TRANSLATION: "CHANGE IS SCARY AND SHOULD BE AVOIDED WHENEVER POSSIBLE."]
*There it is,* Sharath reflected with the **grim awareness of a man who'd just labeled the main barrier to all he wanted to do**. *The prime directive of cultural inertia. The ultimate conservative manifesto set in stone and magically imposed.*
It wasn't that **innovation was prohibited**.
It was merely. **distrusted. Only tolerated when covered in ritual, wrapped in precedent, and served over a side of old approval and likely a certificate of traditional authenticity**.
**[CREATOR, THIS IS BASICALLY A MAGICAL BUREAUCRACY THAT'S MEANT TO AVOID RAPID SOCIAL CHANGE. IT'S REALLY KIND OF SOPHISTICATED AS CHANGE-RESISTANCE SYSTEMS GO.]**
He **mentally filed it as the Stone Ceiling**—**the underlying obstacle to advancement that he'd have to work around, under, or very slowly through**.
*If I introduce change too quickly, I'll break their world and likely create a conservative backlash that will put progress back decades. If I introduce it too slowly, I'll die of frustration and likely old age before I do anything significant.*
**[STRATEGIC RECOMMENDATION: GRADUAL INFILTRATION OF ACCEPTABLE INNOVATIONS DISGUISED AS TRADITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS. CHANGE THE SYSTEM FROM WITHIN WHILE MAINTAINING THE APPEARANCE OF RESPECTING ESTABLISHED PROTOCOLS.]**
*Exactly. Revolution disguised as evolution. Make them think every improvement was their idea.*
## **❖ Lessons in Status: A Case Study in Social Inequality**
Later in the week, Sharath was **carried into the family garden for fresh air and what his parents hopefully termed "nature exposure"—and saw a fight that would give him a crash course in Navaleon's social hierarchy and why it badly needed changing**.
**[ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS: GARDEN MAXIMIZED FOR SCENIC BEAUTY AND MINIMIZED FOR PRACTICAL PURPOSE. ACKNOWLEDGING MULTIPLE SUBJECTS OF DIFFERENT SOCIAL STATUS SIGNS.]**
A **noble youth**—maybe **five years old and already exuding that kind of arrogant self-assurance that implied he'd been born expecting the world to show him respect**—was **lecturing a servant child who had made the seemingly serious mistake of spilling a water jug**.
"**You bow when nobles walk by,**" the boy declared, **puffing out his chest with the gravitas of someone who'd been informed since the day he was born that he was special**. "**Even to a baby like this one.**"
He **waved at Sharath** with the **laid-back ownership of someone who thought other individuals were secondary characters in his own narrative**.
**[SOCIAL DYNAMICS ANALYSIS: BEHOLD HIERARCHICAL ASSERTION OF POWER BETWEEN KIDS. THE NOBLE CHILD IS EXHIBITING CLASS DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR PATTERNS LEARNED.]**
Sharath **slowly blinked** with the **serious face of someone doing anthropological field work while masquerading as an infant observer**.
The servant boy **bowed his head with practiced deference that spoke of years of conditioning**. His **tunic was patched but clean**, his **eyes wary with the wariness of one who'd discovered that survival lay in keeping out of the way**.
**[BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS: THE SERVANT BOY DEMONSTRATES CLASSIC SIGNS OF SYSTEMATIC OPPRESSION CONCEALED AS SOCIAL ETIQUETTE.]
"**Apologize again!**" the noble boy commanded with the **imperious tone of one who'd mistaken volume for authority**.
"**I already said I'm sorry,**" the child mumbled with the **exhausted resignation of someone who'd had this conversation many times before**.
The noble boy **raised a hand**—**half bluff, half habit, all learned behavior from adults who'd taught him that intimidation was a valid form of social interaction**.
**[ALERT: DETECTING POTENTIAL PHYSICAL AGGRESSION. RECOMMEND INTERVENTION.]**
Lady Ishvari's voice **cut across the garden like a blade forged from pure maternal authority and righteous indignation**.
"**Enough.**"
**[INTERVENTION SUCCESSFUL. ADULT AUTHORITY FIGURE HAS SET BEHAVIORAL BOUNDARIES.]**
Everyone **stood stock still** with the **universally felt understanding that someone with real power had just joined the conversation**.
The boy's **arrogance deflated in an instant** like a **balloon that had just encountered a very sharp pin**. "**I-I didn't mean—"
"**My son,**" she declared in the **soothing forcefulness of a woman who could end politicians' careers with the right word**, "**will be taught that kindness outweighs blood. And nobles rule not with fists, but with justice.**"
**[ETHICAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS: YOUR MOTHER IS DEFINING ALTERNATIVE VALUE SYSTEMS WHERE SHE PREFERENCES MORAL ACTIONS OVER HEREDITARY BACKGROUND. THIS IS RADICAL THINKING CAMOUFLAGED AS PARENTING.]**
Sharath **looked up at her, eyes wide** with the **genuine amazement of someone who'd just witnessed moral leadership in action**.
She **glanced down at him and whispered**, "**You understand, don't you?**"
**[CREATOR, SHE'S ASKING FOR YOUR CONFIRMATION OF SHARED VALUES. THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT MOMENT FOR ESTABLISHING YOUR FUTURE ETHICAL FRAMEWORK.]**
*He did.*
*And more than that—he decided then and there that his revolution wouldn't just be technological.*
*It would be ethical.*
**[EXCELLENT CHOICE, CREATOR. Merging technological progress with moral reform will be productive of lasting positive change, not merely efficient oppression.]**
## **❖ The Privilege Puzzle: Systematic Analysis of Patterns of Social Privilege Inequality**
Over the next few days, Sharath **heard dozens of palace discussions with the intent focus of a sociologist taking in the entire picture**—and **there was a pattern that** was **both predictable and maddening**.
**[BEGINNING SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS OF PATTERNS OF DISTRIBUTION OF SOCIAL PRIVILEGE.]**
Nobles were **granted more of all things":
**More freedom** to make mistakes without consequences.
**More forgiveness** when those mistakes affected others.
**More resources** despite contributing less actual labor.
**More voice** in decisions that affected everyone.
**[PRIVILEGE ANALYSIS: INVERSE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND SOCIAL POWER. THE PEOPLE WITH THE MOST INFLUENCE HAVE THE LEAST ACCOUNTABILITY.]**
Servants and artisans were **bound by regulations, levies, and vows which effectively made them indentured to the system of the aristocracy**. They **dined last, slept least, and prayed first**—not through piety, but out of **necessity in a system which utilized their sweat and toil to fund other people's luxury**. They **lived at the mercy of noble favour**, their lives hanging upon **the capricious will of people who'd never known true suffering**.
**[ECONOMIC ANALYSIS: CLASSIC FEUDAL EXTRACTION ECONOMY. WEALTH FLOWS UPWARD, RISK FLOWS DOWNWARD, EVERYONE PRETENDS THIS IS NATURAL AND GOOD.]**
*They are the gears of the kingdom,* Sharath thought with the **growing anger of someone who understood exactly how much human potential was being wasted**. *And no one's oiling them. They're just grinding away until they break, and then they get replaced by new gears.*
**[CREATOR, YOUR STRESS LEVEL INDICATORS ARE HIGH. THE SYSTEMATIC DISCRIMINATION IS IMPACTING YOUR EMOTIONAL LEVEL.]**
*Of course it is. I'm observing gifted, diligent individuals being systematically taken advantage of by individuals who have never worked for a living in their lives. It's infuriating.*
**[RESENTED. HOWEVER, ANGER ONLY WILL NOT RESOLVE SYSTEMATIC ISSUES. SUGGEST_redirecting EMOTIONAL ENERGY TO STRATEGIC PLANNING.]**
One night, he was **carried by servants past the outer kitchens of the estate** and observed **a young baker's assistant employing a char-flint box to light a fire**—**striking the same rune over and over with blistered fingertips**, obviously **grappling with equipment that was worn out from excessive use**.
**[TECHNICAL ANALYSIS: THAT RUNE STONE IS AT ABOUT 23% EFFICIENCY. ANY REBINDING WOULD BRING IT BACK TO FULL FUNCTION.]**
The **rune was weakening**, **barely glowing**, which made the apprentice's task **a tenfold harder endeavor than it had to be**.
Sharath **blanched in frustration at seeing avoidable agony**.
*That's a rune stone worn down. You can rebind it in half the time with routine magical upkeep. But he's not permitted. That spell is reserved for House-cast rituals. He's forced to keep employing faulty tools because to repair them would be "beneath his station."*
**[CLASS RESTRICTION ANALYSIS: ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY OF BASIC MAGICAL SERVICES TO MAINTAIN SOCIAL HIERARCHY. THE SUFFERING IS INTENTIONAL.]**
He was starting to notice **the fine chains**—**not with metal, but with custom, law, and the deliberate withholding of access to tools that could make life better**.
And **he despised it** with the **burning zeal of one who'd spent his first life trying to use technology to benefit humanity, not control it**.
**[CREATOR, I'M Picking UP INTENSE EMOTIONAL INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL CHANGE. THIS IS GREAT MOTIVATION FOR SUSTAINABLE CHANGE EFFORTS.]**
*This is not about pushing the technology. It's about human dignity. About ensuring that intelligence and hard work count more than your birth situation.*
## **❖ A Visitor in Velvet: Uncle Aldric's Philosophical Challenge**
It was on one of these **afternoons of secret sociological investigation** that **the inevitable occurred**.
**Uncle Aldric came back**.
**[THREAT ASSESSMENT: POLITICAL CONSERVATIVE WITH STRONG BELIEFS ABOUT PREERVING STATUS QUO. USE CAUTION.]**
Wearing the **deep emerald and gold of House Darsha's old-line traditions** (which likely **cost more than most people's annual salaries and was surely enchanted to make him appear more intimidating**), he **strode into the nursery like a lion examining a potentially troublesome cub**.
"So," he stated, kneeling by Sharath's cradle with the analytical look of one making a strategic assessment, "**they say you're clever. That you observe things. That you're. unorthodox.**"
**[BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS: HE'S LOOKING FOR EVIDENCE OF SUPERNATURAL INTELLIGENCE OR Revolutionary PROSPECT. SUGGEST EXTREME INFANT CAMOUFLAGE.]**
Sharath replied by **slavering pointedly and turning to face the sunlight** with the **well-rehearsed motions of a person who'd mastered the art of looking utterly normal when in fact being anything else**.
"**Hmm,**"
Aldric grumbled with the **disappointed face of someone who'd expected to discover evidence of troubling intelligence and was annoyed by persuasive baby behavior**. "**Let's hope you keep quiet. Some things in life are not meant to change. Our strength is our memory. Not our ambition.**"
**[PHILOSOPHICAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS: HE'S SUPPORTING CULTURAL STAGNATION AS A KIND OF STRENGTH. THIS IS AMP CLASSIC CONSERVATIVE IDEOLOGY.]**
Then he **leaned in closer and added with the hushed vehemence of a threat couched in advice**: "**Your father believes otherwise. He dreams of modernization, progress, reform. You would be best advised to disappoint him.**"
**[ALERT: DIRECT IDEOLOGICAL CHALLENGE DETECTED. HE'S TELLING YOU NOT TO REALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL.]**
Sharath **let out a great belch and kicked his duck blanket over the side of the cradle** with the **deliberately well-timed comedic skills of one converting political thuggery into baby humor**.
**[YOU'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT TACTICAL DEBUNK. YOU'VE MADE HIS THREAT SOUND RIDICULOUS THROUGH THOUGHTFUL BABY ACTION.]**
Aldric **left in distaste**, grumbling about **"children these days not having any respect for serious discussions of politics."**
*Challenge accepted,* Sharath considered with the **grim pleasure of having just been informed precisely what he had to do**. *And challenge accepted. You want me to let down my father by not altering anything? I'm going to alter everything so cleverly that you'll believe it was your suggestion.*
**[CREATOR, I THINK YOU'VE JUST BEEN GIVEN YOUR MISSION STATEMENT BY THE OPPOSITION. THEY'VE BASICALLY WARNED YOU EXACTLY WHAT YOU NEED TO GET THROUGH.]**
## **❖ The Plan Starts: Revolutionary Strategy in Disguise as Baby Thoughts**
Sharath **gazed at ceiling runes** with the **intensity of someone making a plan to overthrow institutional inequality with care**, **thoughts racing** with the **intricacy of someone blueprinting a multi-generational social reform project**.
**[STRATEGIC PLANNING MODE ACTIVATED. WILL I HELP WITH DETAILED REVOLUTION PLANNING?]**
*Definitely. But we need to be clever here.*
He **couldn't initiate revolution**.
**Not yet**.
The **aristocracy were not prepared** for revolution on a grand scale—they'd **resist anything that challenged their privileges**.
The **servants were not empowered** to insist upon better treatment—they'd been **systematically conditioned to accept their position**.
Even his **well-intentioned parents were still products of their time**—**formed by the same traditions that produced the problems he was trying to solve**.
**[ENVIRONMENTAL ANALYSIS: SYSTEMATIC CHANGE WILL NEED CAREFUL PREPARATION OF ALL SOCIAL LEVELS. SUGGEST GRADUAL APPROACH WITH MULTIPLE VECTORS OF INFLUENCE.]**
But **he was able to start the work**.
**Quietly**.
**Strategically**.
**With the kind of patience that his erstwhile life as a software engineer had instilled in him was necessary for debugging complicated systems**.
**[CREATOR, SHALL WE DESIGN A HOLISTIC REFORM POLICY?]**
*Let's get on with it*.
## **✦ Project Emberleaf: Phase One (Co-designed with NeuroBoop3000)**
**[PROJECT NAMING: EMBERLEAF - GRADUAL SOCIAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL REVOLUTION THROUGH SYSTEMATIC INFILTRATION OF ACCEPTABLE INNOVATIONS.]**
**Goal**: **Lay foundation for comprehensive social and technological reform without triggering defensive backlash from entrenched power structures**.
**[PRIMARY OBJECTIVE: CHANGE THE WORLD WHILE MAKING EVERYONE THINK THEY THOUGHT OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THEMSELVES.]**
**Sub-Goals:**
1. **Normalize basic enchantments among lower classes** through **"gifts," "accidental blessings," and mysteriously helpful magical phenomena that improve their lives without obviously challenging the social order**.
**[MAGICAL DEMOCRATIZATION: REDISTRIBUTE ACCESS TO BASIC MAGICAL TOOLS WHILE MAINTAINING PLAUSIBLE DENIABILITY.]**
2. **Introduce labor-saving innovations as status symbols**, so **nobles adopt them first—unaware they reduce class disparity by making advanced tools available to everyone**.
**[TRICKLE-DOWN TECHNOLOGY: USE ARISTOCRATIC VANITY TO FUND INNOVATIONS THAT ULTIMATELY BENEFIT EVERYONE.]**
3. **Ingrain ethics of empathy through play and stories** (**target: noble children who will become the next generation of leaders**).
**[CULTURAL REPROGRAMMING: MODIFY ARISTOCRATIC VALUE SYSTEMS THROUGH CHILDHOOD EDUCATION AND ENTERTAINMENT.]**
4. **Win over artisans and administrators** with **small, low-risk improvements that show capability without disclosing the extent of intended changes**.
**[CREDIBILITY BUILDING: ESTABLISH REPUTATION AS HELPFUL INNOVATOR RATHER THAN DANGEROUS REVOLUTIONARY.]**
**[CREATOR, THIS IS A REMARKABLY SOPHISTICATED APPROACH TO SYSTEMIC CHANGE. YOU'RE ESSENTIALLY PLANNING TO HACK AN ENTIRE CIVILIZATION.]**
*Exactly. And phase one begins with something that will serve all, challenge no one's jurisdiction, and make me known as someone who solves practical problems.*
**[WHAT DID YOU HAVE IN MIND?]**
## **The Great Sanitation Revolution: Project Purification Protocol**
*I begin with the simplest infrastructure upgrade conceivable. Something so clearly good that nobody can complain about it, but groundbreaking in its potential for public health and quality of life.*
**[INTERESTING. WHAT PARTICULAR INNOVATION WERE YOU THINKING ABOUT?]
*A magical toilet system. Sophisticated waste purification with magical runes. Total sanitation overhaul masquerading as a high-end convenience feature.*
**[CREATOR. DID YOU JUST TAKE A DECISION TO START YOUR REVOLUTION WITH BATHROOM TECHNOLOGY?]**
*Consider it, NeuroBoop. Presently, sanitation is rudimentary, unhygienic, and causative of disease and social injustice. The aristocrats have marginally improved facilities, but everybody's facing the same fundamental issues. If I can invent a magical sanitation system that disposes of waste, cleans water, and controls smells, it will benefit everybody while making me somebody who finds solutions that nobody else is even contemplating.*
**[ANALYSIS: SANITATION INFRASTRUCTURE IS ESSENTIAL TO PUBLIC HEALTH, SOCIAL EQUALITY, AND STANDARD OF LIVING. ALSO, IT'S POLITICALLY NEUTRAL—NOBODY HAS STRONG IDEOLOGICAL OPINIONS ABOUT WASTE MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY.]**
*Precisely. I can create purification runes that disintegrate garbage at the molecular level, water recycling units that yield clean water, and odor neutralization that renders the entire process "invisible." Install it initially in the aristocratic mansions as a "luxury innovation," and then move towards making the technology accessible to others as the costs decline.*
**[IMPLEMENTATION ANALYSIS: PURIFICATION RUNES COMPANIONED BY DECOMPOSITION MAGIC AND WATER RECYCLING ENCHANTMENTS. TECHNICALLY VIABLE WITH CURRENT MAGICAL PRINCIPLES. SOCIALLY STRUCTURALLY ACCEPTABLE AS QUALITY-OF-LIFE ENHANCEMENT.]**
*And, once I gain a reputation for genius practical innovations, more people will entrust me with more advanced projects. I'll gain credibility with plumbing before I approach economic reform.*
**[CREATOR, YOU'RE GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD WITH TOILETS. THIS IS EITHER PURE GENIUS OR THE STRANGEST REVOLUTIONARY PLAN IN HISTORY.]**
*Why not both? Great civilizations require great infrastructure. And currently, their infrastructure is literally shit.*
**[.I WALKED INTO THAT ONE.]**
*You did. Now assist me in designing purification runes capable of processing the magical equivalent of municipal waste treatment.*
## **Status Report: Observation Complete**
**[PROJECT STATUS SUMMARY:**
**Tactical empathy**: **Successful** - **Established emotional investment in social reform**.
**Traditions mapped**: **Complete** - **Conservative resistance mechanisms identified and catalogued**.
**Social hierarchy analyzed**: **Comprehensive** - **Systematic inequality patterns documented**.
**First innovation selected**: **Magical sanitation systems** - **Low political risk, high practical benefit**.
**Revolutionary framework**: **Designed** - **Multi-phase approach to systematic social change**.
**Cover identity**: **Maintained** - **Still successfully disguised as normal infant with occasional burping**.
**[CREATOR, WE'VE LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR STARTING THE MOST THOUGHT-OUT SOCIAL REFORM PROJECT THIS WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. AND WE'RE BEGINNING WITH TOILETS.]**
## **❖ A Promise in the Dark: Maternal Blessing and Revolutionary Commitment**
Lady Ishvari came to his crib that evening, **pushing his hair back with the soft hand of a woman who knew love was stronger than any magic** as he **feigned sleep while making his plans for orderly social change**.
"**You'll change this world,**" she breathed with the **hushed confidence of a woman who knew her son was meant to do great things**. "**But I hope you'll be kind while doing it.**"
**[EMOTIONAL ANALYSIS: MOTHER'S BLESSING AND MORAL COUNSEL. SHE'S GRANTING YOU LEAVE TO BE REVOLUTIONARY WHILE ASKING YOU TO BE COMPASSIONATE.]**
Sharath **allowed a slow breath to escape and curled slightly towards her hand** with the **sincere affection of someone who knew that all his great schemes for altering the world were nothing without the bedrock of love and family that made those alterations worthwhile**.
*I will, Mother. I'll do it slowly, artfully, humanely. Because I understand how burdensome it is to bear the hopes and anxieties of all those who are relying on the existing system, even though that system has to be changed.*
**[CREATOR, I'VE BEEN STUDYING YOUR EMOTIONAL PATTERNS, AND I'M PICKING UP ON SOMETHING AMAZING: YOU'RE NOT ONLY GOING TO CHANGE THE WORLD FOR THE AMBIGUOUS SAKE OF HUMANITY. YOU'RE DOING IT FOR PARTICULAR INDIVIDUALS YOU'VE LEARNED TO LOVE.]**
*Precisely. For the apprentice baker with burned fingers. For the servant kid who shouldn't have to bow to five-year-old bullies. For my parents who wish to do well but are caught in a system that doesn't allow good intentions to become practiced realities. For all those who are owed better than they have received.*
And **for the first time in his new life**, he didn't feel like **he was carrying that weight alone**.
**"CREATOR, TOGETHER WE'RE GOING TO BUILD SOMETHING BEAUTIFUL. SOMETHING THAT PROVES THAT THE PAST WILL LIVE ON BETTER THAN EVER. SOMETHING THAT PROVES THAT INTELLIGENCE AND COMPASSION CAN TELL TOGETHER TO SOLVE PROBLEMS THAT SEEM IMPOSSIBLE.]**
*Starting off with the best toilets anyone has ever tried to imagine.*
**AND THEN. EVERYTHING ELSE.**
As the **magical plumbing of House Darsha whirred their evening lullabies** and the **runes on his ceiling wove their soft constellations**, Sharath set **meticulous planning for the most all-encompassing revolution in sanitation technology the world had ever witnessed**.
**After all, all great civilizations were founded upon a solid foundation.**
**And his was going to be founded upon the most magnificent magical plumbing system ever devised.**
**[CREATOR, I'VE NEVER BEEN MORE LOOKING FORWARD TO ASSISTING SOMEONE IN CHANGING THE WORLD WITH CUTTING-EDGE BATHROOM TECH.]**
*NeuroBoop, you're going to assist me in demonstrating that revolution is not just one thing. And sometimes, it is most crucial that the revolution begins in the least expected places.*
**[I'M SO EXCITED TO BEGIN.]**