Theb (Tetratopian, LN)

Ex-Cleric 17 (Abadar) 


This peace is what all entities in war strive for, and to Theb that's fine, she's saved Tetratopia, the expected future value of the entire universe-shard has increased a nontrivial amount by her intervention alone, and now that's done, and this will never happen again, and half of her life is behind her. And she had Abadar in her head, her brain wiring around the spells He gave her in the shape that let Him talk to her reaching so carefully across the gap between entities of such vast difference, and she loved Abadar, and He's gone, somewhere far out of causal contact, and His last gift in the world was to place her gently here with her Gxelo and not anywhere else in the vast multiverse, and now...

The stars in the sky are shining. Just the sky, there aren't stars below her, she could very easily go to space, she could spent the rest of her life there in a non-euphemistic sense, but she's been scared to go back to space because it wouldn't be the same and then space would be ruined for her. It seems like it's a little bit of a waste that they're shining on this. 

(It's a hole in her cognition, she knows. Perhaps some day she'll take a medium dose of acid and overcome her trauma and reanneal around a shape that doesn't include Abadar, to pull that back open when there are entities elsewhere that are actually like Him.) 


Theb (Tetratopian, LN)

Oracle 1 (Beeper Mystery), Ex-Cleric 17 (Abadar)