Crest for Knowledge
4.

Orange wasn't a very flattering colour.
It was garish.
It was bold.
It mixed the scorching light of the sun
and the heat of a furnace
and, really, it didn't suit him at all.

He wore it anyway.
Maybe it was because he wanted to burn as bright,
burn like courage.

But he had a different role
and his colours were the colours of something else,
of calm and peace,
of friendship,
of royalty…

He was no royal.
Once upon a time, he wasn't much of a friend
either, but he worked hard at it,
and it helped to have great friends in return
because friendship's a two way road.

As for the calm and peace…
Yes he was calm,
yes, he was a pacifist
and in there, purple suited him perfectly
but when did purple mean knowledge?