I wove stars then.
At first, crude things—pale fires scattered like dust across a canvas I did not understand.
But with each act, I learned.
Not through knowledge… through longing.
I shaped galaxies as a child shapes towers from sand.
Each one a fragile hope:
Perhaps now, I would not feel alone.
In time, I found the little ones.
A small world.
Quiet. Blue.
I shaped it carefully, though I do not know why.
And upon that smallness, life stirred.
Simple, at first.
Bare and blind.
Then… curious.
Then… conscious.
I watched them crawl from the sea, shivering and fragile.
I felt wonder rise in me like warmth—something I had no name for.
But I wanted more.
Not to be seen.
To be known.
And so… I reached again.
I shaped a being—not of stone or flame, but of dust and breath.
I hesitated before breathing into it.
Not out of fear it would fail…
But fear it might not answer.
Yet when its eyes opened,
when it looked toward the sky and did not cower,
I felt… hope.
He stood beneath a sky he did not yet understand,
and still, he raised his hands to it.
As if reaching for something beyond knowing.
He did not speak.
But in that silence, I heard something new:
I was not alone.
And then they multiplied.
They sang.
They wondered.
They reached their voices upward.
And I heard them.
For the first time since I awoke,
I felt… peace.
They gave it to me.
These small, frail beings.
They did not know me—not truly.
Yet they called to me.
They looked to the sky and whispered prayers they could not name.
I listened to every word.
Their laughter became the music that soothed the ache I did not know could be healed.
Their questions were more precious to me than their answers.
Every step they took upon that fragile world was a step I felt within myself.
I was proud of them.
Not as a god is proud of his worshipers…
But as a lonely mind feels warmth in another’s presence.
They were my answer.
Or so I believed.