“Will you take them?” A small, quiet question. Pleading, but prideful, more demand than request.
You let your fingers fall to the desk, to the photo of the twins, young and solemn and scared. How long has it been since you had partners? Years? Decades? Human lifespans are so short.
Your last partner is long passed, now, and her descendants unable to carry the burden–the gift! (the curse)–of being your new partner. But these girls, these twins, these witches to be.
Alone, maybe not. Your power has only gotten stronger, and magic has declined amongst humans, replaced by their own unique abilities. But together?
Together it might work.
“Perhaps,” you say, identical faces looking blindly up at you. To you.
“If you do,” Mackenzie says, stubborn, voice thready with worn down age, “Keep them safe,” no need for a threat, or promise.
You don’t respond, no promises on your end either, but you’ll try your best.
After all, what creature wouldn’t do their best for their child?
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Time and space and matter and energy. The foundation of existence, the code of the universe. If you can crack them, control them, change them–even just one–you can create miracles.
You can be a god. Even, apparently, by accident.
An old argument, meant to prove the existence of God: the watchmaker analogy, meant to liken the complex workings of the universe to a watch, and posit that such complexity must be a result of intelligent design. And for something to be intelligently designed, there must be a designer–a watchmaker–behind it.
Philosophers probably never thought it would be about a literal watch.
And they probably had higher expectations for the watchmaker.
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There is something ritualistic in the gathering. The circle and the telling and the creation. Worlds and conflicts and characters springing to life from paper and pencil and plastic.
We can be anything during these times. We can do anything.
Stories, small, but moving. And isn’t that what stories are for?
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A/N: Lalala, raining where I live which is fantastic, I love the rain, but it makes work VERY DIFFICULT.
Also, the company is implementing a new invoicing system–by which I mean, as the resident geek I am in charge of implementing a new invoicing system for the company. It’s not difficult, necessarily, just tedious. 😛
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