Ep I Ch 21

1The spirit held his stomach, then took a deep breath. 2I suddenly got an ill feeling from him and stepped away, as my mother always told me to do in this situation. 3But he turned to me and said “Please, do not move another inch, 4for I am not here to give you a sick feeling. This has been going on for a month or two. I don’t think you’d understand.”

5My head started to spin just at the sight of him, and he sat down on the grass, folding his legs. There I noticed the shape of him. 6How could a man be this way, I thought to myself. His eye twitched; I noticed as I sat beside him.

7“Don’t think of me that way or stare at me,” he snapped, then grumbled. 8“I am not the same as you in any way, shape, or form. I am a god; please refer to me as such from now on.”

9I said, “Alright then, Sir God, are we still learning psychic vision, or not? 10If you are ill, I would like to know more about your illness.”

11He turned to me, seeming breathless from this point onward, and his face turned pale. 12He got up and ran further away from my house, holding his hand over his mouth. 13I didn’t move, but I could hear retching from this distance. I felt myself turn pale. 14This time, I got up to check on him. He had, indeed, thrown up on the plateau.

15“Are you alright?” I asked, genuinely concerned.

16He grumbled, giving me the evil eye. “Now you’re concerned. 17Come, let us begin the lesson of psychic vision.” 18He turned back to the house and sat in the same spot as before. I, too, on his right-hand side, and closed my eyes, preparing for meditation. 19“What are you doing?” he asked. “Just look at the sun setting over the citadel. 20Is it not beautiful?”

I was inclined to agree, though the city itself was quite crowded. 21“Only at this distance. People will try to rob you if you enter,” I said, wistful.

22He shook his head and clicked his tongue. “That is quite improper to say of the majesty before you. What of the good in this city?”

23I said, “It is common knowledge that the queens are handsome, and the merchants are well-willing to haggle.”

24The 'god' shook his head again. He gagged before he spoke, “Common knowledge is well and good, but, looking at it, what does it make you feel?”

25He surprised me, as I thought he would scold again. But I continued for him. “What does the Great City, Theed, make me feel? 26Well, it makes me feel that this architecture was designed in such a way to catch the sunlight, and to come into alignment with the moons at least once a year.”

27I looked up, and the “god” had disappeared. I sighed, then returned to looking at the city. He was not far away, I figured, as I could hear him retching again.