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Canon: Lost
Characters/Pairing: Jacob
Prompt: angels and demons
Rating: G
Notes: n/a
Jacob judges mankind from his lighthouse. He writes their names in 360 degrees, scratches out the names of the unsuitable and leaves untouched the worthy.
Jacob wonders what makes a person worthy or unworthy, wonders whether his judgments are arbitrary. Judgments are measured by inscrutable preference, not by universal concepts like good and evil. Conditional concepts, those: he stayed, therefore he was good. Had he stayed...
Jacob watches mankind from his lighthouse. He strikes the names of the unworthy aware that he, too, was once unworthy. But the names that remain will have time to grow. Just like he did.