Genesis
J.L. Davinroy
Jos’ep slouched in his chair, eyes glazed over, thinking about lovely Maranda. His reading material, Praise: A History of Worship, sat unopened on his lap. He was remembering how, in Council yesterday, his whispered remark about one of the feuding families of gods had caused Mara’s face to erupt in a smile so blinding he had to look away so his blush of pleasure would go unnoticed.
His father, head of the Council, rebuked Jos’ep’s behavior afterward and had his mother assign Jos’ep this reading, already forgotten in his reverie. He was anxious for his chance to create, to show Mara his skills so she would accept him as mate. She was the perfect goddess to carry on his family’s renowned lineage.
His creation ceremony would take place in two spans’ time and his moth
