Crowns

7.18.22

What is it
to be a god?

It is to have influence.

Over what? And how much?

Ah. It is humanity that
decides this. They give the gods
their purview and
their power.

How?

Well, with their minds. It is
humanity that is this place’s
fundament. It is language
and symbolism and carved stone
meaning. It is stories and
feelings and… memory.

And apprehension.

Fear! Of course: fear. Fear
is a crown master, didn’t you
know? It pulls them in like
a magnet the size of a star.

A star?

Fear wears the crowns of man
as chainmail across its white-toothed
darkness. Yellow eyes and sounds
unseen. What is it to be a god?
It is to hold the crowns.
It is to hold the crowns.