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Elaria Vaelwyn

‘‘The soul trapped in her own body’’

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Everything was dark… Too dark… Everything had happened so fast… Why did it have to go this way… Why, just why? Why would the eye take me over… why would it just do this… I did what I was fated to do… I threw the gem in the volcano as I was tasked… For it to be rethrow when it would erupt once more and force the people in the future to deal with its problems…

Because I had other plans, Elaria.

What? The eye could speak to me… In this place? Great… My torment still isn’t over… Tell me, I—

Call me by my true name, shall you… We share the same body… Well, “share” is a big word now… Call me the AllSeeing Eye or AL for short.

AL? Is that really the best you could come up with, you damn body snatcher …?

Stubborn slave of fate… I only did what was necessary to fulfill my plans.

Your plans? you mean to tell me that a being who lives outside of time itself… Has plans of its own? Let me guess… You want to rule the world like any other cliche villain? Is that it?

Villain? Is that what you believe I am…? I am merely doing what I must do to reach my objective… I am the hero of my own story, am I not? What is the difference between a hero and a villain anyways? Do they not both want to achieve their goals? Whether you see me as good…or not. Does it truly matter?

…You do not wish to rule the world?… Then why are you heading toward my dominion… What do you even do with my people?

Oh, calm down… Your people need a ruler do they not?… And as for my plan as you so call it… It’s simple… Everything I’ve done until now was… An experiment. I wish to bring my wife back from the dead… However…It isn’t as simple as bringing a human back… Since We are outer gods…

Outer gods?

Gods who live outside of the fabric of time itself. That is what “outer” means in our titles and well… The god part is just because our description quite fits what you humans would describe as such. To bring her back… I have to use pieces of her very corpse and force them to inhabit somebody in the hope of that very person becoming HER.

You… Are trying to make me… Into her …?

That is one way to put it, yes. However… Since you were fated to throw the corpse part away in the volcano… I had to intervene, shall we say… I put a piece of my conscience into the gem. That is how I currently live within you via the gem.

You are beyond evil… You would be willing to throw away multiple lives… Hell, timelines just for the sake of one pe—

Would you not do the same for your people?

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Exactly. If you had the same powers as I held in this very moment… You would had done the very same exact thing… Oh great Leopard…

Don’t… You even dare to talk to me like that.

Or what, hm? Go on… Take over your own body? Let’s see if you even can, hm? Oh… Yeah, that’s right… You can’t. Tell me Lady Vaelwyn… Do you consider yourself a good person?

What…? What do you mean… Where are you going with this?

It’s a very simple question… Lady Vaelwyn. I must ask once more. Do you consider yourself… Good?

What… Do you identify as good?

Good answer. Being good is a variable that is always in change, isn’t it? The meaning of it is like a river in a mountain… It will always flow. But its path will always be in constant change. In a moment you could be doing something you see as good… But another you could be doing the same thing, and it would be evil.

Are… You’re trying to manipulate me with all this nonsense talk …?

Manipulate?…Pfft… Why would I waste my time with such useless human problems…? I have one goal, and I will achieve it no matter the cost you humans have to pay for it. I have endless times to try, fail, learn and win since I live outside of that very concept… You have experienced it yourself. By being outside of time, you can go anywhere. You used it to attack your very past. I use it to save my wife.

But isn’t she also… Out of time? How can a being out of time die?

I… Do not know. All I’m certain of is that the event that killed her happened because of something that happened in this world and time.

You aren’t able to perceive the past and future where you reside, do you?… As it is outside of the very concept of time…. Is that why you created all these books?

Yes. Are… Are you pitying me, human?

Nah, I find that fucking pathetic. A god who can’t remember how or why but only what. That’s hilarious.

I suppose it is. If I understand the meaning of such a word.

If I may ask… O’ cosmic fourth-dimensional all-seeing being who can’t even see it all… What were the other books about…? Hm… Ashes of the Forgotten World, precisely.

Oh, that one?… That’s a book I wrote when analyzing events that were future to your world. But now that world doesn’t exist anymore. By forcing the gem into you, I stopped the very event that makes that world exist. The volcano was meant to erupt in the future… Sending the gem flying to an island called Marai where a young woman named Catherina Kushin would find it and start a chain reaction of events that led to the destruction of this very world… So in a way… I just saved your world’s future.

By destroying the future…

That is exact…

That… Is a paradox… It doesn’t make any sense. How can you save something by destroying it? It just doesn’t work like that.

Who said it had to work? Tell me. Are humans not a problem for the future of this planet?

Well… Yeah… We steal and rob this planet’s life as if it owed it to us…

Then let’s say I blew up the planet. The problem will be gone… And its suffering would be over, would it not?

I… That is quite drastic… But I suppose it holds some truths…

Some? No… It is entirely true. You are simply restrained by what humanity calls morality and self-preservation.

What…? No… I just…

Don’t even bother arguing when we both know I am correct.

Tch… Whatever… Since I’m stuck here… In this endless void… May I be allowed to read the stories of this destroyed future that you have …?

You wish to learn about a future that you will never know? Why? That is a waste of time.

So what?

…Whatever can make you silent, I suppose… Here… You now have access to all my collection of records within your mind.

…Nathan… Clive… Maeve… Poor souls whose live were destroyed just because… I completed my fate… But because you destroyed my fate… They wont even get to suffer…

Which is a good thing, isn’t it?

To suffer is to be human… You reduced their suffering to something almost trivial… They mattered to the grand scheme of things… They mattered to your experiments even… Did they not?

They were failed experiments. Nathan failed as soon as he turned into a cold-blooded killer; Clive wasn’t even supposed to be. He was a mere human creation based on sexism because one man couldn’t believe a woman, Catherina. Could hold such power…. Even Maeve. Who got closer to me…. Was also a failure.

Yeah… Failures… I understood that part… But without those failures. You wouldn’t be here. Would you? They were necessary failures to your grand plan.

That they were.

So that’s what we all are to you, huh …? Test subjects

…Opportunities would be a better word, Lady Vaelwyn.

…Opportunities… That’s it? Just pawns for your game… For someone who calls itself a god… You sure are a flawed one.

Gods… They sure are flawed.