prologue the quark and the giant eland

fantasy

Things were chaotic on the outer edge of Earth's atmosphere, and the deity of quarks liked it.

When he looked toward what humans called outer space, stars wheeled and plunged through galaxies of shared light and through absolute darkness. Looking back toward Earth, he saw the atmosphere, called "the thin blue line" by some humans. It looked that way, through the layers of air called the Earth's sky. It was often a bright and lively place.

There were, in a few areas, glowing banners of light called Aurora Borealis, dancing in shades of green or purple or the invisible colors only deities saw. There was also sunlight, moonlight, starlight, firelight, nature's secret light, and man-made light pollution.

Many deities gathered together at that endless time, the present, all of them seeing each other along a certain curve far above the planet; gods and goddesses, dryads, nymphs, quantum gods, tricksters and more...

They'd been called by Mother Creator, the oldest, largest and most knowledgeable of them. After all, she was responsible for their existence.

Just then she was watching the quark. He looked like a fidget on some unknown horizon to most of the gods. She, however, could see his nearly wild excitement and the keen interest he had in Everything. After all, quarks were Everything.

The Creator cleared her throat.

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