Greed is pitiless, ignorance blind, and pride takes no heed when it crushes the small under its foot. Mother, don not raise your sword and lick your lips for blood; do not set brother against brother, and woman against man. If it is your desire to strike me by hand against man. If it is your desire to strike me by the hand of one I love, then let it be fulfilled. For the sin has to ripen to its ugliest limits, before it can burst and die a hideous death.