WHEEL SMASHING LORD 6-205

When Maya is confronted with the fact that the road never ends, she runs away from it and renounces her power rather than acknowledge that truth. When Solomon David was faced with it, he tried to force it to end — to stop the churning of the wheel of history — until all he was protecting was destroyed by Jagganoth, and he gave up on power. Mottom similarly sought an end, trying to make Allison take her power — and found a sense of relief in her death. And of course, Gog-Agog went into nihilism. Prim was terrified and desperate when she saw no end to the road, but felt comfort when it was confirmed that the road has no end. (Well, it does, but neither ending she came across appealed to her more than the infinity ahead of her) While Incubus…seems to have been in a state of acceptance from the start. We know that Maya’s retelling of her last meeting with Meti contained a lie, it didn’t show Meti’s death — but if Incubus’ reaction was still accurate, he looked more concerned by Maya running away than by what Meti had said. Maybe he’d already come to this conclusion. Probably back when he was a child. His expression before cutting his hair with a sword looked both scared and ecstatic at...