Worldship: Udo the God: (Worldship Series Book 3) by Joshua Gayou

Author:Joshua Gayou [Gayou, Joshua]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Aethon Books
Published: 2021-12-06T16:00:00+00:00

The drones still held congress. Udo couldn't tell if they'd moved or not - they often resembled metal trees when they weren't speaking. Or mirrors that had been arranged to mock the human form. He watched them.

He wondered if he could hear them if he desired. He sometimes felt a tickle just at the back of his skull - at the midway point between the ears, just where head joined neck. It needled at him when he tried to imagine what they were thinking. It was as if a miniature carpenter stood upon his neck turning an auger, pulling up little chunks of flesh with each screw.

"They're older?" he asked.

Irpitia straightened. She'd leaned back into the wall as if it were a cradle when Udo had finished speaking, perhaps sensing he needed the time to work through his own thoughts. Perhaps only waiting for events to play out. Even now, after all that has happened, I still don't know.

She's with me. Right now. Standing at my side, both physically and within the mind, helping me to search.

(Whoever dreamed the emptiness of Chaos could be so filled!)

But we stand together, and communication is instantaneous. I have only to give breath to a thought, and she receives it, shelters it, grows it into something more. It is as effortless as the effort I expend in committing these words to memory.

And even so, I do not know what was in her heart when they sat together in the cavern.

"Older than humanity, you mean?" she asked.

"Yes."

"Oh, no. Humans are much older."

"Really?"

"You're surprised?"

"Well...a little bit, yeah."

"Why?"

Udo shifted in place and cleared his throat. He seemed reluctant to continue.

"Udo...?"

"Yes."

"I want you to stop regarding me as though I'm a god."

He gave her a look.

"I'm serious," she insisted. "Right now, you and I have far more in common with each other than you do with any other person in Erde. We are both souls encapsulated within temporary structures, delivered for the purposes of enacting our will upon a physical world."

"Yes...I agree," Udo allowed. "Then again...and please forgive me...but there are many philosophers of Erde who would claim that all Theodiscans have this condition in common."

"True. But there is a fundamental difference between us and those philosophers."

"Yes?"

"Your Theodiscan philosophers are only guessing."

She smiled at him. Despite his discomfort, he could not help but return it.

"More importantly," she continued, "it is critical for you to understand that the gods really do not play fair, Udo. Everything we do is about control. We can't help it. It's who we are. It's what we were created to be. Even now, every second, my thought process suggests a hundred different actions I could pursue to make you do, say, think, and feel whatever I desire. It is the ultimate expression of my purpose as a living being, and believe me, it is everything I can do to restrain myself."

"I don't understand. Shouldn't a god have supreme control?"

"Even gods are subject to their own nature. Here, look at me. Look at this body..."

She gestured to her own person as if she was a cast-off, putrid thing.

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