:Little grandgods to tell stories about the bad old days:

Leareth's smile dims. :...I imagine them being so horrified by it: 

:They have to find out sometime:

Nod. Leareth sits down on the bed and puts his arms around her. :I love you: 

:I love you too:

And the next day they can get to work on part two.

The second stage requires a lot more mages in total, but puts much less on Leareth personally, he's mostly just coordinating and supervising, and can take a normal frequency of breaks. Belrun can also help with this part, it's all hands on deck for the highest-power-requirement parts. 

She will help bring up the baby god to adulthood.

The baby god is not going to become a fully adult god in this stage, but it'll get to metaphorical teenagerhood; two days from now it'll have its final shape as a properly godlike being, just a very small and locally-limited one. 

It's not noticeable at first but by the time they break for supper, the little god's presence is noticeable from well outside the shielded Work Room. 

:Hi there! How are you feeling?:

:Bigger. Confusing: The mindvoice is somehow both closer and further away from words; it's a little as though it's separating into two layers, a thread of humanlike communication and the dizzying underlayer of godconcepts. 

:I've thought before that being a god sounded confusing. Do you think you'll figure it out all right?:

:Yes. Made that way: The young god seems very confident of this fact, though also there's an expectation-of-difficulty and expectation-of-confusing-adjustment, the confusion is expected and not worrying but still dispreferred. 

:Oh good. And hopefully you'll be able to help make god-stuff less confusing for us too:

Yes!! The small god is very made-that-way, it was what Leareth was trying to build-create-shape, and it's going to be a lot better at it when it's a very big god and has more power, even though there will be a wider gulf to translate then as well. 

(The god's emotions are noticeably different-flavoured, now, still parseable but more alien.) 

Belrun is so happy with her alien godchild.

And by midway through the next day, there's another quite noticeable shift in the god's sense-of-presence. 

:How's it going?:

This time the godvoice is noticeably different. More like the Shadowgod avatar, though it's a lot gentler than that, and - less invasive, somehow, keeping closer to the same distance that a human Mindspeaker does.

I am bigger and smarter now and so everything is less confusing even though it is still changing very fast.

:You already seem really different:

I am not very powerful for a god yet but I can already see much further. Pride, delight. 

:Since the food poisoning microbes grow back, I wonder if we could keep feeding you power in more stages:

Even after I am big? To get bigger and bigger and bigger?

:I don't know if it's necessary, but maybe one day you will need to be bigger than the current project scope will make you! I'm not sure exactly what god-bigness lets gods do:

Uncertainty, curiosity. 

I think past a certain bigness, nobody knows. Even Leareth. A flicker of surprise-amazement-confusion, clearly the small god finds it very bizarre and hard to imagine that Leareth wouldn't know something. Because there have never been gods bigger than that.

:Is it something you'll be able to Foresee, later?: