Destiny's Domain was fairly simplistic, but colorful nonetheless. It was full of pale wisps of color in every shade imaginable, and even many that weren't imaginable by mortals.
As the Celestial of Order concerned with souls, Destiny herself usually resided in her domain and was not often seen outside of it. Generally understood by mortals to be the Celestial of Death, she was maligned and unappreciated, and this led her to become lazier in her duties. As a result, mammals tended to live longer than they did in the past when she was more revered and more feared.
Destiny had the appearance of a giraffe. She would always take the appearance of the tallest mammal of the time to reflect the idea that no mammal was out of her reach. Her color had changed many times as well, as different mammals eventually gained the ability to see more and more colors. She always chose a color that no sapient mind of Earth could understand, inasmuch as death was a mystery that no mortal could solve.
In fact, if one looked at Destiny from a certain angle one could see straight through her and into her skeleton. Inside of her body, she swirled with the energies she was afforded to control souls. Her long spine also resembled a blade to communicate the idea that she harvested souls from the Earth to return them to the Garden of Souls.
The two errant souls that had begun to follow Karma and Serendipity floated right next to them, as if awaiting Destiny's judgement. The giraffe Celestial looked down at the two and smiled lazily. Karma and Serendipity both looked somewhat nervous, the former more so, as if they were about to be told something very dire.
"Congratulations," Destiny said finally. "You both are going to have children."
"What!?" Both Celestials shouted in response, and looked at each other, very alarmed.
"Celestials don't- they don't have children," Karma held one of her forepaws in the air, looking up at Destiny with concern.
Destiny gave a long, almost sinister laugh. "Not technically. However, they can have exemplars."
"Exemplars!?" Karma shouted. "Oh no...! Oh no no no..."
"Ooh, my very own exemplar?" Serendipity flew over to her tag-along soul and clutched it tightly to her. "That sounds fun!"
"How could this have happened?" Karma grit her teeth, her eyes reflecting her worry.
"Well, when a Celestial of a strong conviction wanders through the Garden of Souls," Destiny began to rattle off, "there's a chance a newborn soul might become attracted to their ideals and follow them. The soul then is technically an exemplar of their chosen Celestial and in life has a good chance to reflect their ideals."
"You have strong convictions?" Karma turned her head toward Serendipity skeptically.
"Hey, just cause it might not seem like it...!" Serendipity wiggled her head. "And that they might not be the same as yours!"
"You have a strong conviction to mess around, I could believe that," Karma grumbled. Then, she let out a long sigh. "This can't be good. Don't exemplars by their nature break the responsibility that Celestials have to not interfere in mortal life?"
"No, because exemplars are not Celestials, and as all mortals, they have free will and self-determination," Destiny droned in a bored voice. "They can do whatever they want."
"But the last exemplar I heard of was..." Karma turned her head down to think. "It was Surrender's wasn't it?"
"Oh, yeah," Serendipity recalled, nodding rapidly. "That was when predator and prey didn't live in harmony. Surrender wandered through the Garden of Souls, wondering how the world could come to peace and acceptance, and a soul followed him out!"
"And that soul helped broker peace between predator and prey," Karma said, her voice fraught with worry. "That was a very significant event in mammal history."
"It was still up to the determination of that soul," Destiny explained.
"Still, these souls..." Karma looked at the soul following her briefly. "Um..." The soul was floating in circles in a somewhat adamant way. Karma shot a curious look over to Serendipity's soul, and it was beginning to glow with different colors. "Oh dear... they're already reflecting some of our traits."
"Ooh, I wonder if I can sync my colors up to it!" Serendipity chirped, holding the soul aloft and playing around with it, trying to match its colors.
"If they- if they're released onto the Earth," Karma tried not to become distracted by the frivolity. "Would they- would they change the world? Is the world even ready for another paradigm shift as severe as the one caused by Surrender's exemplar?"
"I suppose that would be a question for Paradigm," Destiny said dully, uninterested in the question. "Now, do you want me to take them from you or not? I don't suppose you fancy being haunted by these souls for the foreseeable future."
"No, go ahead and take mine," Karma agreed, and Destiny widened her stance with her front two legs and the energies within her began to swirl faster. Serendipity offered up her soul as well by flinging it upward, and the soul was drawn into Destiny's body. The soul floating near Karma instead seemed to struggle to stay near the canid Celestial, but it too was inexorably drawn into Destiny.
"Hey, how about you send mine to Earth right now, Destiny!" Serendipity clapped her paws twice as she hovered in place.
"Wait-!" Karma sputtered.
"Very well," Destiny said. The soul exited the top of Destiny's head and got caught between her horns. With a burst of light and energy, Destiny fired the soul toward Earth, and it flashed colors serenely all the way there. The soul seemed to land right in the vicinity of Zootopia.
"What- I just-" Karma looked over in the direction of the Earth with helplessness. "You just sent an emissary of Chaos to the Earth? Who knows what calamity they will bring to it!"
"Psh, you're so grumpy, Karma," Serendipity folded her paws, looking irritated. "My exemplar will be a nice, happy person that loves fireworks and the jingly sound that coins make, just like me."
"Neither of you are necessarily correct," Destiny said. "Now, will you leave me alone, or would you have me send this soul too, Karma?"
"Both of them?" Karma winced. "I don't... well, if- er..." Karma for once found herself unsure how to proceed. "It certainly would seem more balanced for both of them to be on the Earth at once... but... no." Karma shook her head. "You may send my exemplar out when Serendipity's inevitably causes trouble on the Earth."
Serendipity scoffed and held her arms out wide as if she was asking what Karma's problem was.
"So it's babysitting your exemplar's soul for me, then," Destiny said, starting to recline. She sighed at the minor inconvenience. "Very well."
"Have you ever had a child, Destiny?" Serendipity asked brightly.
"No, can't say any souls have been too keen to follow me out of the Garden of their own accord," Destiny chuckled. "Now, please leave. I've got some souls to collect today and I'm already late. Don't want them scattering too far through the aether."
"But that wasn't our fault," Karma narrowed her eyes, "you are notoriously lazy."
"Not lazy enough that Order has to intervene," Destiny smirked. "Run along now, little ones."
Karma sucked at her teeth and then withdrew from Destiny, with Serendipity floating close by.
"Wowee, Karma!" Serendipity grinned brightly. "I wonder just what my exemplar will be like? What type of mammal will their soul land in?"
"If I had to guess," Karma's eyelids drooped in annoyance, "it would be a loud, excitable, bubbly, irritating bunny."
Serendipity tapped her paw to her chin as she considered this. "Yeah, sounds about right." She started randomly flashing different fur colors that corresponded to some kinds of common rabbit coloration. "What color do you think they'll be? This one? This one? This one? This one?"
Karma sighed, her eyes squinting shut as she wagged her head in defeat.