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"Do not deny my agency!" Alura Badaura screamed.
She pushed herself to her feet. And her words echoed outward.
The haze which surrounded them was pushed back, bubbling outward.
The stars began to bounce through the sky around her.
"I chose to pray. I chose to ride down that hill. I made these decisions."
"The wind may try to carry me but I will always direct my sails."
"Upriver or downriver. And maybe sometimes sailing against the current is impossible."
"But even then I'll turn my rudder east or west as I see fit."

"You are very stupid," The Quiet One concluded. "But you amuse me."
"Know that time will always converge on a single point. The dot known as End."

The wind picked up and hot air began to swirl all around them.

"Whether you experience misery or joy on that line is irrelevant."
"You will either blossom or you will die. This End is inevitable."
"It is not me who denies your agency," The Quiet One responded. "That is merely reality itself."

Alura shook her head. "Let me look upon you, then."
"I want to see the face of an incomprehensible creature that is so stupid it cannot process a simple truth."

Y began to float upside down.
Then all at once water began to form around them.
Only he could breath in it just as naturally as air.
And the space around him grew murky with salt and brine.
Creatures of the deep, whales and squids and fish and molluscs,
All began to float through the water around them.
All, gradually, were descending downward toward the bottom of it.

"Tell me," The Quiet one said. His form seemed like, maybe, it had materialized.
Y couldn't see or process anything but he felt like there was something there.
In the space between, the countless space, between himself and Alura.

"Tell me what you think a mortal can see that I cannot."

Alura smiled.

"I see the joy or misery in every waking moment."
"Because each one of them brings me closer to the End."
"This is a truth that you can never know."

"Truthfully..." Alura Badaura laughed in the face of a God. "I pity you."

Y opened his mouth but water filled it and only bubbles came out.
How was she still able to speak like this.
He wanted to cut into this conversation.
He needed to tell her to stop.
Why was she doing this? It was clear she was going to anger this thing.
Y didn't know anything about Gods or anything like that.
But it seemed as if they were dealing with an incredibly powerful being.
It could end them all on a whim.

The water grew hot and expanded.
The Quiet One it seemed to be smiling at her.
Probably.
"I will kill everything here," The Quiet One said. "Including you."

"I have Faith that you will not," Alura responded.

"It means little to me," The Quiet One said. "Whether you live or die."

"You know that I am right." Alura's eyes narrowed. She looked very shrewd.
"Is this how you lose an argument? Without any grace?"
"You'd rather wipe out an entire species than admit you were wrong?"

The water began to swirl around them.

Alura closed her eyes.
"I am very stupid," Alura admitted. "You were right."
"A smart person would have never accepted such Gods."

Y let out a howl of pain as he was smashed into the ground with concussive force.
The water around them seemed to break all at once.
The darkness above them broke.
The clouds were dashed and the sun flooded the plains.
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