Knights of Tezoth

— I'm very glad you're here, — Stefania concluded.

Before deciding whether to go to the next colleague, the girl said she needed to find out how the other Knights were feeling.

— Are there any thoughts you'd like to share with me? Or maybe you'd be interested in finding out how the others are doing together with me?

- Thoughts... Stefania, what do you think — is the ambition and thirst that lives in the human heart good or bad for individuals and society, or not so much? In a sense, it's precisely because of this that we ended up here, but on the other hand, it seems this very thing lies at the foundation of everything we have now.

— Well... if you look at it from the perspective of those who could be harmed by others' ambitions, I suppose someone might say it's bad. For each individual, everything that forcibly drags them out of their comfort zone, deprives them of something, or makes them do what they categorically don't want to is bad. If you look at the question more globally, essentially all progress stands on someone's ambitions and thirst for something. Take, for example, Eidos the Iron. Without his ambitions and desire to unite Tezoth for its protection, everything would have turned out quite differently. Who knows, maybe without that, a fragmented Tezoth would have long been swallowed by the monsters of regret. Do we need that? Nope.

- Without ambition, we'd still be living in caves, and someone would have had to step out of their comfort zone to get out of those too! Though I'm not sure whether people ever lived in caves or settled straight into cities? I don't recall what the historians of Cortina and the theologians of Osha say about that.

- But be that as it may, progress is great, no, even wonderful! But the thirst and ambition need to be pure, not selfish. Would you believe it, not long ago I had a dream in which some influential man, out of love for a woman, exposed thousands of people to great danger — that's exactly the kind of thing one must not do! We need to think bigger! For Gildaria! For Lord Adalard! Long live His Radiance!
The unexpected guest who unceremoniously barged into the two girls' conversation was the Knight of Unwavering Courage, Dalias Galiot. As his title suggests, he was known for his bravery, but not his wits.
- Hmm! I hope I'm not interrupting you two? Because after that young gentleman, all sorts of thoughts creep into one's head at the sight of such a scene.

— I'd say the deeds of your dream's hero are truly terrible and inexcusable. I hope his head exploded like an overripe watermelon before he woke up. I also believe that behind any large-scale actions there should be a motivation to make people's lives better. And in this context, I'm talking about the people of Tezoth, not some small group of selfish individuals.

Noticing the arrival of the Knight of Unwavering Courage, Stefania put her arm around the young man and answered his question:

— Oh, not at all, you're not interrupting! On the contrary, you'll be the third! — her intentions were honest, and she meant their philosophical conversation with Sylvatica.