Thelema

by empressmargaretta

Part 2 of the What Might Have Been Series. What happens when evil has consciousness. Or, the origin stories of the Oricalchos, the Great Leviathan, Zorc Necrophades, Great Shadow Magus, Kek, Nightshroud, the Light of Destruction, the Earthbound Immortals, the Goodwin brothers, Don Thousand, and Zarc. In chronological order, so the action doesn't really start until chapter 15 or so.

1. Awareness

Someone, somewhere, was trying to tell her story— and getting it wrong, too. Someday she would have to track down these foolish storytellers and torture them. Not that she wanted them to get all the details right, of course— evil operates best in the dark— but torture was such a fulfilling pastime.

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Pain. Pain, pain, pain, pain. That was all there was, that much was known.

What was 'known'?

Awareness, the answer came. To know is to be aware.

I am aware. A pause. What is 'I'?

Awareness, the same thought came again. I think, I know, so I am aware. I am aware, so I am an 'I'.

That was all. The awareness ended.