The Bad God Wins: A Dark Romance (Possessive Gods Book 2) by Loki Renard

Author:Loki Renard [Renard, Loki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-07-10T16:00:00+00:00

8

Tanuk

She trusts me so deeply. It is a precious gift, this trust which allows her to fall asleep in my arms. I have taken her from everything she knows. I have trapped her on a planet she does not know how to leave. I have hidden her from her family, and I have put her in mortal danger.

Semi-modern humans have a term for people like me. I always though it was rather colorful, but quite apt. Asshole.

I may be an asshole, but I am her asshole.

In the small hours of the morning, I sense a disturbance in the near region. It feels like something very large and very powerful moving toward us. I wonder what could have such a mass. It almost feels like another god, though I do not think it is. It is certainly no god I have ever encountered. There is a coldness to it, a mechanistic purity which almost makes me think it is not conscious.

I pay a little more attention and realize that I’m wrong. It’s very conscious. It is mind. Almost pure mind. That is what is unique and machinelike. I watch it, without moving, observing the energy patterns of the being as it moves through the world.

This must be the Entity which Raine’s mother fled, the Entity which stacks humans tens of thousands high and keeps them captive. When Raine wakes up, I should draw the comparison between the way Entity shields humanity from the world and the way she was raised inside Helios’ palace. She’ll like that. Or find it hugely offensive. Bit of a gamble.

It seems to be looking for something. It moves in a grid-like pattern, extending its influence over small areas of land at a time, deep searching them for… what? I suppose I will find out when it finds what it is looking for.

I suspect that it is carrying out a mission of order. I’m surprised the shoddy old chapel we are resting in has been allowed to remain standing. It is a remnant of the old chaos of humanity, precisely that which Entity wishes to erase. Clearly, Entity cannot sense the power of gods. It knows only its own magnificence.

Its quest is futile, though it does not yet understand. It believes it has already won, that the people sitting compliant in their chambers are under control. I know better. Humans are never truly under control. Entity contains within itself billions of seeds of its own destruction.

But that, for now, is a philosophical opinion. It will not keep my Raine safe. Entity stops at a distance. I can feel it, not see it, but seeing is a formality reserved for animals. It is not necessary for gods. I understand the nature of the nearby without the need for anything so simple as the five senses mortals are stuck with.

I draw Raine a little closer, sensing the danger. I have never had to fear before, at least, not within memory. But I do fear for her. She has the curse of mortality upon her.

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