When I read this story something about just struck me as wrong. For a while
I couldn't place what but then a passage from a book poped into my head.
This sums up my problem with Akane's attitude in the story.
The ring promised nothing, demanded nothing. But the explorer could
envision the world as he had alwayes dreamed it might be, a place free from
war and tyranny, all peoples liberated from want and ignorance. He could
make it so, force the world to match his vision- or break it all to pieces
in trying. He could free every country, every town or village, from evil.
But he could never free them from his own terrible reign.
-Artus's thoughts after finding the Ring of Winter. From "The Ring of
Winter" by James Lowder