A Firefly's Monologue #9

"And then there are those who could see souls."

"Ghosts and apparitions?"

"No. Those beings let us see them if they want us to see them. Unlike those who could see strings, they could pull the strings. And sometimes they are unaware of these.

"They are blind of things their world deemed important. They see things differently. Yet what they do see is ultimately essential, the soul."

"Won't it be hard for them to live in worlds like their own? Can't they travel like you do?"

"Some do travel like me. While those who can't, they get by. They understand far better the world they are in than most and so they live with all their world's hate and apathy.

"The world treats them with an unbelievable reality that at certain points in their lives they begin questioning themselves. But that's just how the world acknowledges them."

"If they can pull the strings, why not just keep pulling? Their wishes can easily come true if they do so, right? And they'd even be happy if they did."

"There are those that do so for their own. Be it a purpose far from my understanding or for something more common and trivial in their world but for them is everything. They must not be hated. They are ones easily mistunderstood.

"As for those that do so without regards to self, it's different. They are ones most easily misunderstood. Sometimes, themselves don't even know."