FICTION
WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE
By Jessica Seney
T
he dark water like substance enveloped
the goddess in a familiar embrace. It was
Yet something did. A ripple in the otherwise
peaceful waters alerted her, only recently, that one
here, long before mankind, that she was born.
of the threads were severed just before it’s afterlife
It was here that the strands of fate began their
began. The goddess was both puzzled and intrigued at
unending spiral through the worlds, and it was here
the time as an event such as this was unprecedented,
that the weaver returned. Having woven the world
impossible, it flat out destroyed something that was
into existence, the sky, the stars, the earth, all of it
indestructible. Others began to find such a fate too
was her creation. Her people, the egyptian people,
until hundreds of threads were left with an end where
worshiped her as their creator and protector. On
there should be none. The goddess, hunter and
the rarest of occasions she would move among
mother to all, followed one of the most recent cuts to
them, enjoying the warmth of the sands beneath
its end. Upon its end her fingers stretched out into the
her toes and the scent of the nile in the distance.
watery abyss, and from it came a brilliant light. From
Neith, as both god and mortal called her,
the light she wove a gateway, strings of the world
spent her time within its all consuming darkness
bending to her will, until it was large enough for her
for one purpose and one purpose alone; to defend
to step through without risk of tearing the strands.
her otherwise defenseless people. Her eyes
When her heels first clicked onto the stone
swept over the countless golden threads before
below she noted a strange scent in the air. Instead
her, each allowing her to know the past, present,
of the sands of Egypt, as she expected an Egyptian
and future of one life. Even the afterlife could not
warrior to have been, she was greeted by flora all
sever the twine, as nothing could nor should.
around her. Unfamiliar plants dotted the landscape,
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