The Sloth of Heaven by Steven Lindsay

Author:Steven Lindsay [Lindsay, Steven]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781494709396
Published: 2014-03-20T04:00:00+00:00

The oceans passed around him, dark and empty. He remembered when they had once been this empty before, a long, long time ago. So long ago the memories had faded. So it seemed not even Primordial Gods were immune to the forgetting aspects of time. But this ocean was not meant to be empty. Life had already touched these waters, the Lifestream had once flowed thick and fast through it. But now the Lifestream was but a faded memory and life was failing.

That was not life’s way. Life was all about adapting and evolving. Gaia’s creation had been brilliant in its simplicity, and its ever changing ability to make itself complex. Though of course it had taken billions of years for the other Primordial Gods to start seeing the merit of her creation, by which time many had returned to the Lifestream and a new batch, including him and Tiamat had come around.

It made him wonder just how lonely Gaia felt sometimes. There were very few of his brethren around still and they had certainly not been the first Primordial Gods. There had been many before Humanity’s evolution had been accelerated by Prometheus and changed the world. Now very few Primordial Gods remained. There was Gaia trapped in her slumber and there was Tiamat rejoicing in her new found life and freedom. Besides the three of them, he wondered if there were any others. He felt great pity for Gaia, she had seen so many rise and fade away. She might be the only one who remembered that they had existed at all.

One day he would become nothing more than memory. Such was life and existence, what had a beginning always had an end. Immortality was no different, in theory, they could last forever but after living for so long even immortals tired of their lives. Those that did faded back into the Lifestream, returning their essence and powers back to the planet. All Primordial Gods and Gods had that option, even any immortal Divine did. Mortals died anyway so they didn’t need to. But even mortals granted immortality tired of it quicker than those born to it.

There was something inherently depressing about seeing all those you have ever known disappear time after time. Which was why those made immortal returned to the Lifestream in what the Gods saw as a relatively short amount of time. But those once mortals had lived a great many more lives than they would have, living many lifetimes beyond what they expected gradually wore them down.

And now it seemed that even the planet itself was dying, something all the Gods had thought impossible. But with Gaia asleep there was no quick magic way to heal the planet. That might be the very reason that she couldn’t wake up. Or perhaps she was returning to the Lifestream and in doing so ending the planet’s life as well. He couldn’t begrudge her if she was, she had lived in excess of four billion years.

But somehow he didn’t think that was it.

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