Instead, he had simply been made to do it. He had been made to cross into another dimension and pressed to accept that, on the other side, he would find his essence locked into a witch artefact that, mind you, had never been explained to him either. This went beyond recklessness. Recklessness implied that you at least understood the cliff before you jumped. Yves had nothing so reassuring as the logic of gravity.

                                           He had
                 NO THEOREM     NO MODEL
                           NO PROPERLY  ANNOTATED                                             a MIRROR,
   account of cause and consequence.                 a Witch Mother’s half⌒sphere,
                                                                                                                and the Somsaraa;
                                                                         three components arranged into a procedure
                                                  with the theoretical transparency of the Witch Moon himself.

                      He had
NO THEOREM     NO MODEL
NO PROPERLY  ANNOTATED                                                   a MIRROR,
account of cause and consequence.              a Witch Mother’s half⌒sphere,
                                                                                                           and the Somsaraa;
                                                three components arranged into a procedure
                       with the theoretical transparency of the Witch Moon himself.

              He had
 NO THEOREM   NOMODEL
     NO PROPERLY ANNOTATED
     
account of cause
        and consequence
.
  He had
      a MIRROR,
 a Witch Mother’s half⌒sphere,
        and the Somsaraa;
    three components arranged into a procedure with the theoretical transparency
   
of the Witch Moon himself.

It was exactly that lack of insight which took this whole thing not just beyond recklessness, but far beyond insanity too. Because with insanity, at least, you could locate the fault within the mind. With insanity, you yourself were the  w r o n g   t h i n g, the factor that fabricated nonsense and caused chaos to an established system or strategy. Here, the nonsense did not originate in Yves. It came from the absence of knowledge around him, from the lack of logic that framed the entire endeavour. To shift dimensions, Yves was expected to risk his essence upon a procedure whose theoretical foundation had never been established. Unless he found out the needed whats and hows on his own, he was forced to trust the Witch Mother, and to embrace the half-sphere through intuI╋Ion, which was an approach to magic that was so reckless and so profoundly insane, it well bordered on suicidal.

It was exactly that lack of insight which took this whole thing not just beyond recklessness, but far beyond insanity too. Because with insanity, at least, you could locate the fault within the mind. With insanity, you yourself were
   the  w r o n g   t h i n g,
  the factor that fabricated nonsense and caused chaos to an established system or strategy. Here, the nonsense did not originate in Yves. It came from the absence of knowledge around him, from the lack of logic that framed the entire endeavour. To shift dimensions, Yves was expected to risk his essence upon a procedure whose theoretical foundation had never been established. Unless he found out the needed whats and hows on his own, he was forced to trust the Witch Mother, and to embrace the half-sphere through intuI╋Ion,
     which was an approach to magic that was so reckless and so profoundly insane, it well bordered on suicidal.

                                                                                           Or, worse,

                                                                                                  on   WItchcraft.

       Or, worse,

               on   WItchcraft.