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War  ·  3303 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The world will end tomorrow unless you can convince God to spare us. [Writing Prompt]

"So is this gonna go down how the Catholic bible has it going down because I've always wondered if the four horsemen were a metaphysical thing, or like actually horsemen?" I asked trying to mask the tremendous fear of standing before an entity that could sneeze me out of existence by accident.

"Honestly? There are literally an infinite numbers of ways this could go down." She said in a rather quiet tone.

"Do any of those possibilities have us living through this?" I asked hoping my job would be easier than I thought.

"Nope. In every instance the world ends no matter what." She said looking off into the vastness of space. It almost seemed like she didn't care. "Believe me I do. I care about every single thing I create, but this is the biggest issue with human beings. You think you are the center of everything that there isn't some grand plan that exceeds your short span of life," she said.

She was right, we had taken a very selfish position in the universe, but in our defense we had no proof to say otherwise. "Are we all just expected to die, and that be the end then?" I asked only being 21 I had a lot of life to live.

"Again you assume that your life as it is, is the only thing that exists. That when it ends it's over just like that. Honestly I'm more keen to end the world just to show you what comes next." She said as she swirled her finger in the emptiness of space to create another galaxy.

"Well how were we supposed to know there was something else after, it's not like you gave such trustworthy source material?" I asked being slightly upset by her words.

"You weren't supposed to be so caught up in death to be completely honest. At least I'd hope you would simply live the lives you were given," she said taking a more somber tone.

"You say that as if you didn't know what was going to happen," I said sounding curious.

"A lot of the time human beings assume being able to do everything must mean I choose to do everything. I know all paths that humanity can take, but I choose not to see which one you all will end up choosing," she said with a smile on her face. Maybe the world ending isn't so bad then.

"I haven't done a good job convincing you that keeping us alive is a good idea, have I?" I asked feeling more and more comfortable with the end.

"Nope not in the slightest, but I can tell that I've convinced you that in my vocabulary "end" doesn't mean the same thing it means for you," she said still gazing out at her creation. She gestured to me that it was time to head back.

"So technically I did convince you to save us right?"

"Not really... Tomorrow was never really the end. Death's just another path," she said giggling.

"Did you just loosely quote Gandalf?" With a flick of her wrist I was back standing before thousands of people who were waiting for my return.

"What happened?" the crowd roared. I wasn't sure what to say besides, "She quoted Gandalf to me."

There was this deep silence before the crowd in almost perfect unison said, "SHE?!"

I wrote this on my phone so excuse any mistakes haha.