The Forgotten God
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Mandisa pushed the last manuscript back onto the shelf, pausing the stroke the roughly bound pages, the illustrations so beautiful in their coloured inks.
How she wished she had been allowed to learn to read, imagining the poetry of the script and the fantastic tales they span. For all he was, their master was a great storyteller, relating epics of the Gods at the rare social occasions.
Mostly, it was to amuse them without the irritation of small talk and personal questions. Even with other Gods, grand or lesser, he felt it was none of their business how he fared. They could reveal all they wanted, adding to his list of tales he could invent, but their complaints bored him.
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