[center][img]https://img.roleplayerguild.com/prod/users/870473f3-5910-4f94-b693-626198194773.png[/img][/center] Lei returned to the site of the Door to greet whichever new deity had managed to create itself in her absence, yet soon enough found it empty. [color=thistle][i]...Perhaps nineteen is enough.[/i][/color] With a solemn gaze she raised the golden orb, and with a click of the lock, the Door ceased to be. The beach was only a beach. The horizon was nothing more. The day was bright. Mater Lei turned and left that place. It was done. ... [colour=thistle][i]...Well, clearly not,[/i][/colour] she thought, turning in the direction of the sound. [colour=thistle][i]A knock?[/i][/colour] Lei clicked open the Door and stepped into the Vault. [colour=thistle][i]Ah, I see,[/i][/colour] she thought. [colour=thistle][i]A fatality.[/i][/colour] The figure floated in the well-lit dark of not space, limp. [colour=thistle][i]A mortal? No.[/i][/colour] Lei reached out to the cadaver and pulled it into reality. [colour=thistle][i]A failed attempt.[/i][/colour] The demigod fell onto the wooden floor where the Record had been played, and lay there, unmoving. Lei looked into the Door and saw what happened. Bits, flying, everywhere, pieces of god and man put together with sutures and fallen apart in the void. Power, stripped, evaporating, a world's worth of divine essence leaking from the body, and leaving it as what it was- nothing more and nothing less. Not a mortal. A young man who had presumed on his ability to be something more, and paid a just price. [colour=thistle][i]Well,[/i][/colour] thought Lei, nudging the body's slender shoulders with her foot, [colour=thistle][i]Maybe 'man' is a bit of a stretch.[/i][/colour] There was still some power hanging in the void. Lei leapt for it, gathered up its pieces, and saw that they fit together. With some effort she reassembled them, the last spark of the demigod's power, into a weapon of a sort she hadn't seen for a long time, and had not expected to see again. Despite all the chaos, its magic was still intact, held together against all odds by the will or hubris of the demigod. Perhaps that was his mistake. With the demon rifle on her back, Mater Lei returned from the depths to where the body lay. Freed of the strain of maintaining a cobbled-together divinity, a little warmth was beginning to re-enter the corpse. She lifted her crook and poked at it like a dead thing. [color=fff79a][sub][i]"...Am I a god?"[/i][/sub][/color] Lei flipped her cane and whacked him across the skull with it. [color=fff79a][i]"Owwww!"[/i][/color] [colour=thistle]"No,"[/colour] she declared. [colour=thistle]"Absolutely not."[/colour] The androgyne nursed his aching head. [colour=thistle]"Mater Lei,"[/colour] she introduced, extending a hand. [color=fff79a]"...Yuu."[/color] He took it and rose to his full height, which wasn't much. [color=fff79a]"I guess..."[/color] he looked around. [color=fff79a]"...I'll try again, then."[/color] [colour=thistle]"No,"[/colour] she said. [colour=thistle]"This door is closed. You're the last one in. You may enjoy this new universe however you please."[/colour] Yuu looked down for some time. [color=fff79a]"Ah. ...Thank you."[/color] Then, up. [color=fff79a]"May I have my gun back?"[/color] [colour=thistle]"No."[/colour] [color=fff79a]"...May I [i]earn[/i] my gun back?"[/color] [colour=thistle]"Maybe."[/colour] [color=fff79a]"..."[/color] [colour=thistle]"..."[/colour] [color=fff79a]"...How?"[/color] [color=thistle]"Entertain me!"[/color] said Lei, sweeping her hands into the air with a grandiose shrug. [colour=thistle]"I'm sure you'll figure something out. In the meanwhile..."[/colour] She shouldered the rifle and obliterated a nearby Plume. [colour=thistle]"...I'll take potshots."[/colour] Lei looked back at him as though he hadn't been there before. [colour=thistle]"Is there anything else?"[/colour] [color=fff79a]"Can I see you naked?"[/color] Lei shot another Plume, then turned to Yuu with a demon rifle in her arms and said, [colour=thistle]"I'm sorry, did you say something?"[/colour] Yuu leaned in. [color=fff79a]"I said, 'can I see you naked?'"[/color] Lei looked at him. [colour=thistle]"...You know, you had me all ready to be angry, but now I'm just impressed,"[/colour] she said with a slight huff. [colour=thistle]"No, you may not see me naked. However-"[/colour] she extended another hand. [colour=thistle]"-you may remove my glove."[/colour] ... [color=fff79a][i]Well,[/i][/color] thought Yuu, wading out of the Door a few seconds later with a shortbow on his back, slowly realising that he was in an entirely new universe. [color=fff79a][i]That was weird.[/i][/color] [hider=Summary] Lei realises that some mortal tried to be born as a god but screwed it up. She fishes... him... out of the Vault and tells him to get the hell out of her office. She also pulls out his demon rifle and [b]repairs it as a blessed item for 1 Might,[/b] and returns it to him as a small compensation for not being a god... wait, no, she kept it for herself. nevermind. [b]Mater Lei 1 Might 2 Miracles Level Four 4.5/8 Acts of Creation[/b] [/hider]