People have a hand in making their own fate, this is true. But there is a pattern at work, something that we don't consciously realize until we are wrapped up in it. Once that happens, there is nothing to be done as it constricts around us, and draws us in.

[He knew all too well, for he'd tried to shake the pattern off to prevent his god from dying, and everything else he cared about from being destroyed. It hadn't worked and Ushahin had been left in despair.]