“Leave us alone,” Cor replied quickly. “All of us, every person of Rumedia. Leave us to live our lives. My broken gods, you are lucky. Do you know that?”
“How so?” Dahk asked, his apparent cheerfulness having not abated at all.
“You are lucky that I don’t know how to find you, the real you and not this…” Cor waived his hand about, “this place.”
“Why? What would you do?” asked an appalled Garod, slumping back into his chair. He stared down at the sand.
“Just what I did to the Loszian gods. Think on that.”
“I believe you would. Good luck in your new world, Cor Pelson,” Dahk said, and his tone had turned somber. He flicked his wrist slightly, and the naked image of Cor disappeared instantly. “And we would probably deserve it, our last penance.”
“This is what you wanted all along, isn’t it?” asked a disheartened Garod. His toes felt suddenly wet, and he looked down to see that he had dropped his beer. The bottle had fallen onto its side, and the wonderfully cold liquid poured out to mix with the white sand.
“More or less. Cor Pelson is right – there is no room for gods in this world. I think that I would end us myself if I could.”
“You need only tell him where to find us, and you’ll get your wish.”
“I’m not quite that brave, not yet at least. Right now, I’m all talk.” Dahk sighed and threw his empty bottle as far into the ocean as he could while seated. As he stood, he noted with interest that the water was the purest blue he’d ever seen, perhaps even more so than it was in his youth. “Come, my friend, we should call a meeting, inform our fellow ‘gods’ of our new place in this world.”
THE END.
AUTHOR’S AFTERWARD
Will the Cor Chronicles continue? Even I cannot say at this point, except that there are many Chronicles of Rumedia to be told. So much came before Cor, and surely there is much to follow. Let us not even mention what happened to our world to bring it all to pass. I only hope that I have not demystified Rumedia too much, and that you will return to this world with me in the future.
I would say one other thing – if any aspect of this story has offended you at any time during the reading of it, then perhaps you missed the point.
Martin V. Parece II
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