Chapter 42: A Greater Plan - Mei

“Oshmin…” I breathe in disbelief. I don’t know how I know it, but every cell in my body is telling me that the man in front of me is… the God Oshmin, the one who created my kind.

“I haven’t heard that name in a long time,” he says wistfully. “Feels strange to hear it again.” He casually walks over to a stone bench and sits down on it while I blink as if my brain has shut down because I actually think it has.

I’m crazy. I’ve officially snapped. I’m now hallucinating Gods, though my hallucinations are very creative, I’ll give myself that.

“You’re not hallucinating. I’m very real and very here,” he says with a gentle smile. Did he just read my mind?

“Forgive me, but you don’t look like a God,” I say suspiciously.

He silently chuckles, “Met many have you?” He smirks. I cover my cheeks as they start to burn. He’s right, I’ve never met a God, how would I even know what one is supposed to look like? I notice him watching me with a small smile. “If it helps, we have an alternate form, we