The Ballad of Brighid of Atlanta Chapter 1 | Page 18

“Your absence these few years has things out of balance. I take the weak and the strong grow ever stronger.” “But their increase has been unchecked by compassion or righteousness.” “Now it is the strong who care for the weak -- As livestock are cared for, Exploited and consumed.” “The weak live in fear: fear for their health and money, fear of discomfort, fear of each other.”