Mebet’s birth
Mother began her tale.
“I must confess, I was not the first one to see you. It would be silly to say that it was your mother or the midwife either who laid eyes on you first. No, was Ulgen, the god of the Upper World, who first saw you. The gods know what tedium is, and Ulgen is probably more familiar with it than anyone else. Just like the gods of the middle world, he dwells among people, but among a completely different sort of people: those who are fated to be born. They soar in space, they float over him like pale, indistinct shadows, because their lives have not yet been determined. Even when their destiny is determined, these shadows do not grow any clearer, because their being is still weak. They plunge down, still so gray and indistinct. In the unclean chum of the b
