“Aaaaarky?”
Yisini’s voice echoed across the grassy plains. The grass may have been brown and pink and the wind may have been howling, but the Allbirther’s voice carried across the sky, rushing through dead trees and over trickling rivers. The Deadlands of Kinigi were always a quiet, peaceful place, but the only thing that ever lived there was the Thantophor, the god of death.
The Thantophor though wasn’t answering any calls.
In fact, the Thantophor wasn’t answering anything. He wasn’t answering prayers from the few mortals that worshipped him. He wasn’t answering the threats of those who wanted him destroyed. He wasn’t even answering the messages his fellow deities were leaving him.
Yisini was trying to change that. She wanted to know where her death-ruling brother was. He had been missing and it was… unlike him to be like this.
“AAAAARRRRKY!”
Still no answer. The fact that Arkadin was missing annoyed Yisini greatly.
The reason why wasn’t obvious. Of course, Yisini and Arkadin were opposites, they were known to argue and essentially always hate each other. But despite that hatred, they both somewhat needed each other. After all, death and life were intertwined.
That and the fact that Arkadin being missing meant that Yisini couldn’t spy on him or anything.
On top of everything else, Yisini NEEDED to keep an eye on Arkadin. Or at least what he was interested in killing. Yisini needed to protect her experiments and spying on the Thantophor was the only way of protecting the more important ones. Then again, she wasn’t very good on spying on him. It turned out that death gods don’t appear on film like one would expect. In fact, now that Yisini was thinking about it, she was really bad at spying.
“AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRKKKKKYYYY!”
Suddenly, thunder echoed through the skies as lightning flashed past. The weather abruptly changed and a small spattering of rain began to fall.
Epani, the colossal Panelix, Goddess of Space, had appeared. Her massive, scaled, sea monster body soared through the air, hovering ominously.
“You are not my dear Arky!” Yisini tutted.
“You have been calling Arkadin for hours and he has not responded. Has it not occurred to you that the Thantophor does not wish to speak to you?” Epani’s words were nearly as harsh as her teeth were sharp. The long tendril that extended from her head swished from side to side, glowing ominously.
“Well he should answer!”
“He has no reason to do so. Why would he answer to someone who has treated him so cruelly?”
Yisini crossed her arms, coiling herself around a particularly large tree. As she did so, leaves began to grow on the tree and small flowers began to blossom.
“Did he ask you to talk to me?”
“No.”
“Do you know where he is?”
“No.”
Yisini tutted. But her look changed to confusion. “Wait, you don’t know either? Kairos didn’t know. I haven’t asked mother yet.”
Epani flicked her tail, then began to fly off. “Perhaps you should go ask her then. But consider that maybe Arkadin does not want to be found?”
“How do you know?”
“Because no one has found him yet.”
Epani flew off, taking the bad weather with her. Yisini blinked, then shrugged.
“Maybe mum knows where he is…”