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The Tower in the centre of the Matrix of Destiny

Mechanics. It is never calm for long near you. You say what is not said, ask a question after which the meeting goes differently, and have the rare ability to demolish a structure everyone considered the only one possible, and you do it not out of spite but because you see the crack before the others and cannot keep quiet. You are read as dangerous. Or as honest; it depends on who receives your truth. Your calm periods are short. Life goes in jumps: before the break and after.

Works when the system is rotten and someone is needed to break the circle: crisis management, investigation, reform, rescue, work in emergencies. At the moment when everyone panics you become collected and clear, because for you this is a normal environment. Few can make decisions quickly under a collapse. You can. People who lived through an accident, the dismissal of a whole team or a hospital with you later recall that short phrases came from you, and an understanding of where to go.

Breaks when explosions are staged on level ground. Boredom is unbearable, and you set the fire first: provoke a quarrel, quit in a day, wreck what took three years to build and tell yourself it was not real anyway. The second failure is living in expectation of the blow. You do not relax even in a good year, because you remember: after good comes the collapse. A calm evening you spend in mild anxiety, going over what could go wrong, and those close to you stopped long ago asking why you do not rejoice with everybody else.

What it looks like:

• At a meeting you alone say that the king is naked, and a month later you turn out to be right, but they have stopped inviting you to meetings, because your being right is inconvenient to everyone, including those it saved.
• Major changes in your life have come suddenly and not by your choice.
• You do not nurse a grievance: you cut at once and do not regret it afterwards.

What to do.

1. Before tearing something down, ask: is this a crack, or am I bored?
2. Learn to tell the truth with a warning. "I'm going to say something unpleasant, are you ready?" changes everything.
3. Build one thing slowly, against your character. You need a point that will stand.

Takeaway: you are read as the one after whom everything changes; choose what exactly you demolish.