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Goddess of Rain
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"Trepidation inessential."
Li'Kalla stared wide eyed at the... Monstrosity before her eyes. A being so unknowably slimy and foul... She'd never seen anything like it before and certainly even if such a beast had existed back home, she wouldn't have seen it after-
"Find solace in second genesis."
What was it saying? She understood its words, of course, but... Genesis? Solace?
"Additional affliction unlikely."
The words of a machine.
"Engage in creator’s directive.”
Whether it was a machine or a living being, it was right. Li'Kalla never took her eyes off the thing, Anzillu, and cautiously got up from her sitting position, which she strategically assumed out of surprise when she noticed the star-sized pupil of darkness in front of her.
Thankfully, the repugnant God moved away soon after speaking his sentence.
The Goddess of Rain let out a breath of relief she wasn't aware she was holding, and looked down at her hands. Shaking.
She bit her lip, shook her head and tightened her hands into fists before floating onto her crystal platform. It shot off immediately when she landed safely on top of it.
II
Before too long, she had arrived at what seemed to be a void. Not unlike the one she vaguely remembered from before existence existed, but this one didn’t feel as… Empty? It was hard to think about it, even for a being blessed by the Architect of the Universe. Not that she believed receiving a blessing like that improved your intelligence, of course. She wasn’t especially gifted…
Li’Kalla shook her head. She had a duty to fulfil, and she had a vague idea of what that duty was.
She lifted a hand and held her palm pointing up. Then she focused.
Small… Brown… Raw… She thought with her eyes closed, picturing her desired item. Grain.
The first thing she felt before opening her eyes was a minuscule amount of mass materialising just above her palm.
She opened her eyes and smiled with a furrowed brow.
”So it’s true, huh. I can create things… I really am a…” She said to no one but herself…
It was a single grain of rice, a type of grain that her people would grow in massive amounts back home. This one seemed as if it had just been harvested.
With a mere thought, she peeled the grain of rice and the pristine white food ingredient revealed its beauty to Li’Kalla.
A flash of pain flared up in her head and she averted her gaze. It only took a similarly simple thought to de-materialise the grain of rice and its peel. After the flare of pain died down, she sighed. ”’Trepidation inessential’…”
She looked around at the void. ”… I don’t think it’s that simple, Anzillu the Automaton.”
III
The first part had been rather simple.
So why, by the Architect’s cold Eye, couldn’t she make anything else?
Li’Kalla groaned and threw herself onto the dusty ground that stretched as far as the eye could see. It was the only thing she’d been able to make. She lay there for a long time but eventually, it was time to try again. So she stood up and graced her eyes with the ugly, massive crater in the ground that she’d made for the lake that had been giving her so much trouble.
She shifted her position to sit on her knees and closed her eyes.
Clear, cool-
Drip, drip.
Her eyes shot open and she leaned over the edge of the crater with wide eyes. She’d done it!
It mixed with the dusty surface a bit and made it hard to see, but a trickle of water was coming from somewhere beyond the mist, slowly filling up the crater as a new lake.
… Maybe she hadn’t done it. Li’Kalla sighed and shook her head. Well, there was no reason to worry about that now. She focused once more and the dusty surface turned into dirt, and on that dirt grass and walnut trees grew, surrounding the crater. What once was a trickle of water now became a steady flow, and it kept increasing. Eventually, when the trees had all grown and together formed a humble forest, the flow of water revealed itself to be some kind of river due to the sheer amount of water that it gave. She couldn’t see where it was coming from, but upon a cursory investigation she recognised a trace of Shengshi’s essence in it.
It makes sense to have a God of Rivers make rivers to give everyone water, right? She shrugged.
While the lake filled up, she cleared some trees to make a clearing big enough for her next objective—A house.
She created a manor eerily similar to the one in her memories. Its facade, the rooms, the furniture and decoration… Incredible, the power she’d been given. But before she could actually go inside the manor, she had to finish the creation of her Sphere.
A grassy hill beyond the forest of walnut trees with a single oak tree on top of it, and a reinforcement of the mist surrounding the lake, forest and manor was all that was left to do.
IV
Li’Kalla was sitting on the steps leading up to the Manor’s front doors, looking out toward the Lake which had now filled up completely. After a few minutes watching the misty, greyish landscape, she moved towards the shore of the lake, just before the edge of the waters.
She caressed herself gently, noting how soaked her skin was and how perfectly dry her dress had remained. She didn’t even question how it had remained so, after all the things she had found out she was capable of doing. So, gracefully, she undressed. For the first time since arriving in this new world, she undressed.
There were no scars, no bruises. She was healthy.
Her lower lip quivered slightly.
She walked a few meters back and neatly laid her dress on the ground, before walking back to the edge of the waters and sitting down on her knees. She dipped her hands into the water at the same time as her vision blurred.
Steadily the water’s temperature rose. It rose up to a point where one could see steam rise from the lake. At this point, a pair of unassuming tears fell into the Lake and mixed with the water.
When Li’Kalla was satisfied with the water temperature, she removed her hands from the water and now took hold of the steam, forcing it to form clouds almost immediately upon detaching from the Lake. Those clouds she could faintly feel, as if they were a very distant part of herself. She didn’t pay much attention to that however, as she was busy with more pressing things.
Before the Sphere was completely filled with clouds, Li’Kalla tightened her hands into fists and focused her energy into them.
Then, she agressively stretched them toward the sky above the Lake.
”Ah!” She gasped and fell to one knee. She felt it, however, as the very fabric of space tore and a ring of the purest marble materialised mid-air. All the clouds were suddenly sucked in by the ring of marble, and what seemed to be a rippling surface of water was left inside the ring. The surface was quick to be covered as more freshly formed clouds began passing through it, blocking Li’Kalla’s view.
She wiped her eyes and took in a deep breath. It wasn’t enough to keep her breathing from feeling funny, but she managed to hold herself together for long enough to take a quick bath in the boiling lake.
