The End, The End, The End!

Total for the month: 216,211

I've been kind of floating around for the last three and a half hours, trying to reorder my life and consider what I need to do in December. Eeek. I have one novel to finish rewriting, but it's going well. One outline to complete... well, actually to write and do the rest of the research on. And I have another nonfiction project that has to be at least 30,000 words and I need done by the end of the month. I've been doing notes on it. Well see if I can get it laid out properly and not have much trouble writing it.

This is the last NaNo snippet, which is the closing to The Time and The Place. It is a supreme being, a Goddess, having seen the humans, coming back to her own creations, whom she has kept rather too close to her, and safe.

Great mother, golden goddess, please, please, please....

She drew back, leaving the individuals where they were, ships left in space, but they were safe. They knew the way home. She made certain of it before she left them, because she had developed a liking for these humans. She liked the feel of them. She liked what they had done, all those individuals.

She liked Keri Ibn Karim. He had given her a gift. He had given her understanding.

They are not like us!

No, they aren't. You are my playthings. I give you places to play, things to do. I set you on the path to play games that I make. But these are individuals. They have no links except in what they choose to share with one another. And look what they have made my children. Look what they have done, across wide stretches of space. Look....

But they would not look. They would not see. They wanted only to be what they were. Great Mother. Golden Goddess...

No.

The humans, she thought. They have made art and music and they do not move to my beat, and they... surprise me. You....

No.

And they cowered now.

You shall be great too, she said. You shall be as they are.

And she reached out and took Tei and Jepri into her golden hands... and she remade them, severing each from the other, and creating them in human form, in human mind, individuals. She put them into their ships, and even those she refashioned to fit their new needs. And they cried out, but she could not hear them now.

And so she withdrew and went away, and left them there, remade and alone.

And they hated the humans for it.


I will probably drop some more snippets in here during the rest of the year again. Hope you all enjoyed NaNo!