"Orual...My name is Èktaktos. I am the extraordinary, special one. I am warrior god; a thinker and fighter. I am a balanced god; keeper of the Universe and passer of judgement. I am a creative god; teller of all tales and author of all songs. Much authority is in my hand and the Twelve have little knowledge of me for I was born in a different time and tend to other things
Your story intrigues me and I have watched it closely. My eyes are the rain, my hands are the grass, my voice is the air and my ears are the clouds.
You are guilty, Little One. There is no question. Your selfishness knows little boundary, in its mask you sought to halt one of Our oldest and noblest laws - marriage. You mortals are for marriage, meant to be married. For this reason man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, the two become one flesh and are no longer two, but one. What We have joined together, no one should separate. The family bond is meant to be broken that We might redeem it in marriage.
To hold your sister from the marriage for your pleasure is a terrible and conceited crime. Your complaints to us were like clanging cymbals in our ears and resounding gongs in our halls. Your faithless callings tore at our hearts like stray dogs tear at meat and bones, your selfish love made you nothing before us. But do not fret; there is hope.
You are not the first mortal to sin against us. Since Tiny Pandora spilled evil into your world so long ago Our redemptive plan has been moving. The twisted story of Istra's Temple is part of Our plan. Without Our story you wouldn't have written your own, you wouldn't have come to understand our silence and you wouldn't have planted Our new seed in the ancient world. Even now at the hand of a Greek scholar your book moves to the Library at Alexandria where hundreds of mortal will come to know our character and faithfulness. Your descendants will be numerous Orual and your sin is gone.
Come and wait here with Us, We make all things new, your Bridegroom is coming."
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