Chapter 49: Madness.
Considering the fact that madness could be seen as the evolution of mutation or uncontained emotions, it stands to reason that the emotive chains could potentially bind the emotional triggers, or at the very least, stabilize the emotional waves—the plethora of dark emotions that lead to madness—thus eventually suppressing or delaying it.
Right about then, a frown crept up on my features.
But in this case, the source of madness is a "fallen being." Hence, it would require multi-layered bindings and immersive clarity to keep it in check. And to make matters worse, madness isn’t static.
The frown on my face deepened. ’It’s fluid, it morphs, adapts, and sometimes, it feeds on the very chains meant to bind it. And while emotions are discrete and comprehensible, madness is contradictory and irrational, making it harder to define or target.’
"Hence harder to keep in check."
And that wasn’t even the worst of it all.
My face paled. ’The worst thing was that binding madness could result in the emotive chains being tainted or becoming unstable, especially if the chains reflect the binder’s mental state. In this case- my own.’
Though if that were to be the case, then I probably had nothing to fear.
The reason?
My inner state, or rather, my soul space, was somewhere even I myself couldn’t enter. As though it wasn’t mine. Apart from summoning things from it, and keeping things within, I had no other dominion over the soul space.
’I could only imagine the dreadful reason behind it.’ I shuddered at the thought.