“STASY!”
Kenon breathed a deep sigh as he stopped what he was doing to answer the call of Kinisis.
“STAAAAAASY!”
“I am here, my dear…”
The Void Lord was not in a pleasant mood. For reasons he could not understand, his son, the Thantophor, was not responding to his own calls. Now he had to leave the sanctuary that was his own shadowy temple and venture out into Kinisis’s home, a strange world of rainbow skies, plants made out of sugar and flowing rivers of many a colour, none of which made sense. Especially since this place was located in the centre of the universe, a place Kenon would otherwise be unable to visit if Kinisis wasn’t fascinated by him.
“Oh goody!”
Star-filled wisps wrapped themselves around Kinisis’s feminine body. Ever since Kenon first met her, she had always used this same look. A thropic, upright, curvy body with round mammaries, sharp, blackened claws, a saurid-like head adorned with a simple pair of horns and a tail three times as long as she was tall. Right now, she was spinning around happily, playing with some flowers that had bloomed near her feet.
“Why have you summoned me, Kinisis?” Kenon tried to get straight to the point. He knew Kinisis would lead him around the bushes verbally, but perhaps she might be blunt today.
“Because you have pissed off my child.”
“Which one?”
“Guess.”
Kenon tutted. “Is Kairos annoyed that I did not want him playing with mortals?”
Kinisis glared at Kenon, growing in size until she towered over him.
“You want to play games with me, you retard?” the Goddess of All growled. “You want to play games with the entirety of existence as you and I both understand it? You want to anger the little death god and have another fidan complex scenario? Or worse, a cataclysmic event? Because that’s what happens when you anger a death god!” Kinisis was snarling now. Her beauty had disappeared, replaced with flames and fury. “What do you think you are doing?”
Kenon crossed both pairs of arms. “I am protecting him.”
“Protecting him from what?” Kinisis hissed, spitting all over Kenon. Kenon wondered why he put up with this, then remembered that anything was better than wandering around forever in the empty void between universes. “He’s the personification of death and entropy, he does not need protecting!”
“He does need protecting!” Kenon shouted back. “He is as much an open fool as you are! Easily blinded by desires and always forgetting who he is! Have you not seen where and with whom he has decided to rebuild his home after our pushes made him destroy his former sanctuary?”
“He lives with a Kronospast now, how is that a problem?” Kinisis snarled. “He may not be the beast we both want him to be, but he is still doing his job, more so now that he has someone to share stories with!”
Kenon stepped back. “Our other children will threaten him. They will hurt him.”
“And if they do…” Kinisis sighed. “If they do, then we get another serpents and wolf scenario. Which is kinda what you and I both wanted in the first place…”
Kinisis sighed. The flames turned back into starry wisps.
“Sometimes, my dear, you have to let our kids fuck up…” the Goddess finally explained. “Yeah, they will almost certainly do some retarded shit, but you have to let them make mistakes and fix their own problems. And you can’t be a fucking retard yourself, the way you decided was best to protect Arkadin. Because all you were doing was making things worse for him, for his siblings and for yourself.”
“I would have bee-”
Kinisis placed a finger on Kenon’s lips. “He would have beaten the absolute shit out of you.”
“That’s not-”
“He’s the Doom Bringer He is unstoppable when he wants to be. Don’t give him that opportunity.”
Kinisis started shrinking back down to her normal, attractive self, and went back to playing with flowers.
“Is there anything else you need me for, Kinisis?” Kenon awkwardly asked. He was still angry with Kinisis. He still wasn’t clear about why this time he shouldn’t have interfered with her children. There were things he did not understand. But Kinisis was a beautiful, wise being. Kenon loved her deeply with every part of his cold, empty heart.
“No. But if you want, I’m going to go and make a picnic in a bit. Do you want to join me?”
Kenon shrugged, then smiled. “That would be lovely, my dear.”