I closed my eyes, squeezing them as tightly as I could, but it was all in vain, for it was only a few moments later that I heard a soft blink, and when I opened them I saw a rivulet of milk flowing merrily by my right, frothing as if it had just been milked. As I helped her her eyes fell on the scratches and rips of her survival suit. So the red dust and boulders around me began to turn into what you see… The terra-forming module, which had its own resistance capsule, was crushed, and the seeds and embryos we were to put in the incubators were also scattered in the red dust between the rocks. There was nothing I could salvage from the shuttle, the mothership had already made the jump and was in hyperspace decades of light years away, so I decided to take off my helmet to finish faster. And what should we call this entity?”
For a moment it seemed to me that the rivers stopped their flow, the bird of paradise folded its wings and fell silent, then the whisper came again, this time clearly and seemingly a little timid:
“You may call me God.”
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The days began to pass one after the other, then so did the years without being bothered by God or whoever he
