Logismoi
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As Copia observed himself in the full-length mirror, he welcomed the deadly sin like an old friend — Pride, a prickly thing made of thorns and diamonds, now shone brightly on his face, lifted his chin, and reflected off his cheekbones like a polished blade.
C. S. Lewis writes in Mere Christianity that pride is the "anti-God" state, the position in which the ego and the self are directly opposed to God: "Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison. It was through Pride that Lucifer became wicked. Pride leads to every other vice. It is the complete anti-God state of mind."
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- Part 1 of Logismoi
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Whenever Perpetua thought about Copia, it felt as though he was thinking about himself — not as a person, not even as his twin, but as a part of a greater whole. A unit, existing in two bodies, two minds; so deeply intertwined that the mere thought of ever being separated provoked in Perpetua a flash of nausea so intense, it frightened him to let his mind even breach the idea.
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- Part 2 of Logismoi
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Terzo had lost hours — no, entire days — to Lust and its demands, for years. He had chased its sweet promises, and not cared for the words of concern that had tried to rein him in. Like a fool, he had found himself too close to the sun, and like Icarus, burnt to the bone, he had plunged into ruin.
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- Part 3 of Logismoi
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Copia had all but clung to the glass once he was dressed, his hair swept back, face shaved clean save for the slender pencil moustache, and eyes painted in matte black. So noble, Pride whispered as it mustered its host from up close, so formidable, while the mirror fogged with the heat of Copia’s breath.
“We did it,” Copia had muttered back, gloved fingertips dragging through the condensation, revealing the mad stare of his white eye blinking back at him. There, where his sin had made its lair.
“You and I.”
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- Part 4 of Logismoi