Earth’s Sun warmly welcomed the visit from Gio’s Portrait.
“Were you expecting my visit?”
She answered that she had. From the moment he first appeared beneath Earth’s sunlight, the Sun had marveled at his immense vessel and laughed with delight, saying that she wished to interact with him.
“I came here today to contemplate the conduct a god should adopt.”
The conduct a god should adopt?
“My father answered that a god should be nature and an observer. He said there could be no worse hell than the Sun descending directly to the earth, so observing from far away would instead be an act of mercy.”
Earth’s Sun said she disagreed with him.
“For what reason?”
Because the Sun was always reaching out to life.
Every life born beneath the sunlight was her child. Earth’s Sun had protected her children from the clutches of the tens of thousands of Divinities that had flowed in with the Calamity. There had been far too many occasions on which they could not be protected unless she intervened directly.
“Then what is the conduct you adopt as a god?”
The birth of life and the love of mercy.
“O Mother Sun.”
Exactly. He appeared to understand well.
“You truly are the mother of all life.”
Earth’s living things emerged from the Sun’s womb and eventually returned to her embrace. They were no…