Imagining The World IV

The world looked much different when Heli returned to it then it had when he'd left. There were huge burnt patches, piles of dead brush, the wind howling like a banshee. There was no one around visible to the eye. But he sensed them. Oh yes he could, a multitude of tangled energy.

He turned to his wives. "What happened?" he asked, his gray eyes peering into them.

"They don't listen." Calcine said, her golden hair blowing around her like a shimmering cloak.

"They are wild ones." Violaceous added and smirked, her eyes sparkling like a girl.

"Then they each need their own places to destroy, don't they." It was not a question. This god of gods remained very calm about it all, for he knew there was no problem he could not solve.

From out of the wind Loess came holding a small creation in her arms. There were tears on her face and fury in her eyes. "Father." she said, her voice the song of birds, the rustle of trees. Heli felt his heart fill with love for his third child.

"What is this? Why do you weep my cherished one?"

"She is dead." Loess placed the creature in her father's arms.

"Dead?" The father of gods sounded surprised. "He cradled the long eared furry animal, pleased with it's silken coat, small pink nose. Live." Heli softly told the beast and it's eyes opened and it leapt from Heli's arms and capered around Loess's feet. She bent down and scooped the small animal up and hugged it, her eyes still angry.

"You can always make another, daughter." he told her, his logic very reasonable to him.

"I want this one. I want them all. Havok killed her. She was going to have children and he just killed her." Loess burst into angry tears. "He is wicked!"

Moved with a powerful feeling of sympathy for his daughter, Heli told her he would make a place where she could have her little creations and her brother would not be able to just kill them. That little mortal creatures will not be directly interfered with by the gods. "I will, at this very moment, work with your mother and Violaceous to make such a place." And he meant it.

Loess finally smiled and again hugged the animal to her chest. "Pyre burns down the trees, Prutt crumbles the land, Zypher blows everything down and around and Torrent dissolves what he can and washes away what he can't. Mist rains constantly, Quicken fights to make them stop and Mariah just sings all the time."

"We shall go this moment and create a place for little mortal beings." Heli promised.
So Heli, Calcine and Violaceous went into the empty and began to create.