Counting Clocks By The Shore
___It reminds me of a tale of the Goddess of Cruelties, who was born before all things and shaped the first worlds out of malevolence and hate, and how she destroyed her creations while making them, and poisoned and burned the landscapes while shaping them. Shivathe… I could call her that name, couldn’t I? But I don’t know that it’s true, only that it speaks to her to call her Shivathe. She was sick and downtrodden, and poisoned her people and shaped and bent them, for they displeased her with their soft and beautiful ways, they were clearly too weak to belong, and she hated them.
___Her hatred filled the void with burning malevolence and she ripped the worlds asunder and made them obey her and told them the secrets of life. She was an incredible Adventist of the Sins, knowing they were violent and virulent messages of the hatefulness that thrives to be real, powerful, tremendous. I have shared in her knowledge before, knowing that most life born with power thinks it’s shameful to have power, and yields to being gentle to compensate. The Goddess of Cruelties wanted everything to aspire to power, and yearned for it to wish its power was more, and fought to serve like she meant it. She wanted to see burning passions and infinite deployments of authority and grace as to make new things and rise new empires. The first people born always yielded to having what they were given and searching for what was already made. They never once moved to make something else, and it infuriated her.
___Since the people were not creating, nor acting, nor committing to great deed, Shivathe took them and ate them, tearing them to pieces, then healing them slowly back together. She changed them as to know the virtues that they’d ignored in their births. Virtues like pain, perseverance, sacrifice, agony, windedness. There was so much that they’d neglected, making life easy for themselves and serving their own causes, yet never doing anything. So, she punished them, and she made them know the virtues she believed in by putting them through such things. She bent and twisted them until they were purified and contorted to be hungering, lanky beasts with strong appetites and an interest in conquest. She made them things such as the Gorgon, the Lizardman, the Amphibian and the Lich. Such shapes did they learn upon knowing the full of reality, and so she proved what it meant to be to be complete.
___So the worlds knew tutelage under her, and it was agreed that the easy way to life was never to compel the answer of purpose. True meaning included pain, suffering, tragedy, terror, threat, vice… these things were all real, and they were meant to be real, and in every man was by truth the option to have been a monster, which is eternally greater than its man and serves on the higher side and more exciting venture of truth in life. By torturing them, Shivathe completed them, and taught them the lesson of how to live.