>>6327595<span class="mu-r">I have a lot of names. Most all of them would be meaningless to you. Well, it doesn't really matter anymore.</span> you breathlessly sigh, dropping the divine majesty angle and returning to your more usual manner of speaking, <span class="mu-r">Ultimately, your revival is just another aspect of my selfish desire. So, I wanted to give you a choice: I could either revive you as you were, as you died, or I can wipe your slate clean. No memories, no trauma, and a brand new life with brand new people. So, Jane, what will it be?</span>
She pauses, her form melting from hart to human, her unflattering, baggy clothes returning to her as her hide shifts into flesh.
“I think I’ll go this way,” she smiles, pointing off into the distance.
<span class="mu-r">You’ve been dead for a long time. Reintegrating in that environment is gonna be difficult.</span>
“I didn't know too many people anyway.”
<span class="mu-r">The things you were running away from, using me, are going to still be there when you get back.</span>
“Then… maybe you could stay with me?” She replies, seemingly entirely unsurprised at your reveal.
<span class="mu-r">You do remember, don't you? The things I did. The things I said.</span>
“I remember that it tore you up inside.”
<span class="mu-r">The man you loved isn't real.</span>
“Um. Could you… make him real, then? I… I know a lot of that— a lot of <span class="mu-i">us</span>— it wasn't just a lie.”
If your lungs worked, you wouldn't have been able to help but laugh at yourself. Some things never change, huh?
<span class="mu-r">...
…
Well, whatever. What's the point of being god if you can't do a couple miracles? I may as well sort out the memories and records too, while I’m at it. Oh, and he’ll probably be just a little meaner than he was when you knew him. Just a bit. Anyway, sure…
<span class="mu-s">Let there be man.</span></span>
Your vessel twists and shifts, its brain being wired with a mix of fabrications and realities filtered through the lens of a man who never was. Your— now <span class="mu-i">his</span> body swells, strengthened muscles wrapping around an expanded, masculine skeletal frame as you delicately tinker with this anchor until it meets the appropriate specifications. You melt away, leaving only a tiny, insignificant human fragment of the universe of might that makes up your current self.
It’ll be a long walk back to the nearest town from here, but for once, Jane won't be walking alone.