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Moral Code
Rules you keep when nobody is grading.
A moral code is not jewelry. It is the line you draw before appetite offers better furniture.
Importance is tested at 2 a.m. when the shortcut knocks and you are tired enough to call it wisdom.
Codes fail loudly or quietly — the loud failure is spectacle; the quiet one is habit.
Keep the rule you can repeat without an audience.
The knock comes again at 2 a.m.
JV · Dark Heart Labs