Celestial Locomotive

Huginn: I saw it again. It was making its own tracks, from earth to heaven.

Muninn: I saw nothing, but I remember its station of origin was Babel, and its tracks were long.

H: Why do they do it? Why attempt a mad ascent towards things they do not understand? As if to gaze upon the Highest were a privilege and not a doom.

M: Because they were given the gift of curiosity, and the Highest chooses to leave it unbound.

H: But it is as a trap to the unwary.

M: And it is as a test to the wise. Who knows the mind of the Most High?