Disclaimer: No money is made off this; it is purely for pleasure and the sake of writing. Plot and most characters belong to me, except for some gods mentioned, but who owns the gods anyway? Some concepts in here belong to others; due credit is given at the end of the chapter.

Chapter 1

A lone figure stood in a place unknown to mortals; known only to the higher powers as the Tapestry of Time. Here, the threads and strands of time and space met and interwove between each other to create the very fabric of existence; the universe itself, along with all other parallel and intersecting universes.

She turned her attention to a strand before her; the particular thread that represented her life in the cosmos. She revisited once more a day, so very long ago by Earth standards, the day that her destiny would fulfill itself.

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"You can't catch me, Terris! I'm faster than you, remember?" The sounds of laughter permeated the air in the forest as two young ones chased after each other. Terris tried to unsuccessfully catch his prey, Angela.

Angela and Terris: Friends since they could walk; husband and wife till old age. Or so their families hoped. Angela, dark-haired and pale-skinned, and Terris, sun-kissed hair and eyes the color of the sky, were as different as night and day in looks and temperament, but similar in personality. She liked to reason through things; he knew things by instinct. The two had perfectly matching personalities, except for a few minor areas, like hobbies. Then again, as a male, Terris preferred to throw the discus around while Angela preferred to weave or embroider.

The two finally stopped their exertions and rested in a meadow next to the forest. Out of the blue, Terris posed the question that had been weighing on his mind as of late, mostly due to the constant nagging of his family.

"Angela, will you marry me?"

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Credits:
The idea of "fabric of time and space" was borrowed from K.A. Applegate in her Animorphs series. No profit intended by this.

The setup for the personalities (reasoning and intuition) of Angela and Terris is borrowed from Ellen in her Personality Conflicts series. No profit intended by this either.