User blog comment:Promestein/Heavencross - Assorted Mastema/@comment-28644276-20190306025253/@comment-27123758-20190306030102

All of these excerpts were written at different points in time, and at some point I decided to post them all as some sort of sequence, to show a bit of Mastema's character (and some of Harahel's, as the narrator 2/3 times here). I'm glad to hear that the contrast and the story communicates that sense of hopelessness and nihilism so well! That's core to Mastema's character and role in the story.

And of course. Mastema's dismal view on reality is... infectious. Poor, poor Harahel.