I start to do a little dance. I'm in the middle of the cleared out library-like main area of Eth's room, where I had her draw an overly complicated magical circle using chalk she got from somewhere. Working theory, she made it out of her hair. After all, it's white enough.

  "What in the world is that?" Eth asks while standing off to the side, mouth turned upwards a little. I think that that's a good sign. Actually, it's something that the pitiful peasants in my past would call a "kelepen", which means big dance, I've been told. Certain groups of peasants living in the nation of Patelek used it as a form of worship. The idiots. I'm the only god they should be praying to. Not this Po person.

  I pause in my worship of myself, "Well, it's something you are going to be joining in on, too!" She frowns, so I dash out of the circle and grab her hand, throwing her into the circle, where the compulsion to groove is strong. I run in after her, and find her just standing there. Why is she resisting? "Eth, come on, just move!"

  "I can't, I don't know how! How do you even know what you're doing?" Silly little goddess, I am the master of the dance floor, as with all other things, and I have plenty of experience with dancing with other people. Usually the other person ends up dead, but that's their fault. Dancing doesn't even require experience or foreknowledge, you just need to move.

  "Just MOOOOVE!" spectral instruments appear around me in a pale bluish-violet light, and begin to py a grand instrumentation of great beauty. I, myself begin to dance in a flowing manner around Eth. She just sort of stares at me, so I grab her once more and pull her into a dance. It's a typical court ballroom dance, just a tad more extravagant, 'cause, y'know, we're gods? I fly by coating my body in magic, I fling her around by doing the same. Sometimes we even dance sideways or upside down, while keeping in the dome of the magic circle.

  She's getting into it! I'm so proud of her! All she needed was a little bit of music... I pause. Has she EVER heard music before? Bsphemy! I bring the song to a crescendo, and above us, a hole begins to fairly rip apart space.

  Eth is out of it, so she doesn't see the gaping hole in reality over her head, and she had broken off from me for a moment, dancing by herself to my little musical instruments that are floating around her. I, in comparison to her, look upwards at the hole that has caught my attention. It seems to be ringed in bck and white fire, and the center of the portal momentarily seems to be a deep blue, and ripples like water.

  A moment ter, I realize why it looks like that.

  It's because it is water. "Uh, Eh- Urglbrg bbbb" Water comes crashing down from above into the room, in a jet so powerful, it makes waves off of the walls. Both Eth and I are swept away by the current, and smmed, on opposite sides of the room, against bookshelves. Saltwater goes in my mouth, up my nose, in my eyes, in my ears. I'm soaked.

  I don't suppose I can compin, cuz this is my fault. I was indeed the one who directed this magic.

  After a moment, the portal closes, and the water stops flowing in. I once watched a py about a man who tried to swim up a vertical river. However much he tried, he wasn't able to reach the source. Not that you can usually reach the source of a river by swimming upstream, but this guy was particurly stupid. All of the people he met on his way up, mostly travelers since he wasn't near any cities, told him that he was an idiot for trying. He continued anyways. I suppose it made him happy. I'm not going to spoil the ending, but it's pretty tragic.

  Anyway.

  The water is shifting, seemingly on it's own. A lot of times, water looks like pure chaos as the waves run into each other, but not now. The water looks like a bunch of writhing snakes. And insects. Vaguely, of course, it is water, after all.

  A shout comes from the other side of the room, where Eth is filing in the water. Can she swim? I don't know what I would want. The snakes rise in the center to form some kind of shape, just a huge lump. Thank goodness the water moved away. I'm not even wet anymore, I like this.

  "THE BOOKS!" Eth screamed while practically diving onto a bunch of books on the floor, knocked down by the water. Oh, wait, she actually dove. She made a dry thump with her face against a particurly thin book, which was dry. In fact, most of them were dry, except the ones nearest to the cocoon of water in the middle of the room, which honestly kinda looked like a brain. With only one half, and no stem. Probably not as soft, and a tad more wet, though. The books near it were drying as the cocoon sucked in all of the water around the room, so that was nice.

  "Creator is going to punish me!" Eth cried, desperately throwing books back onto their shelves with her powers and peak precision.

  "Hey," I teleport over, "isn't that kinda your job, like the job that they gave you? Wouldn't they tell you you did your job well?" She stops moving, although her powers kept putting books back in their perfect pce. Shame. Her eyes look at me with an intense passion and curiosity. So cute.

  Her mouth gapes open, then forms words, "Haow would you know," her voice wavers on that first word. Leaving people dumbfounded is such a good feeling. Suck it Jade! Still better!

  I grin at her, and say in a lofty tone of voice, "I had maids in my past life, y'know. It's just what I'd do." She looks at me with wide eyes and a little open mouth. Kinda like fear, but more positive, since her face is sck and not tense. Oh! It's awe, that expression. Hehe. I simply revel in this attention.

  "You- are you like the Creator?"

  "You mean a ruler? Yes, I was. Still am, I suppose."

  She side-eyes me. "The more I learn about you, the more perplexed I am by you." Well, that makes sense. Pretty much par for the course.

  "Anyways!" I shout and point at the massive ball of water that is slowly shaping itself into some kind of more stable form. Let's see what comes out.

  Aethernal