When a god loves a human…
You went from the human to my human.
Then, you were, simply, Love.
On one of my first trips from Hell to the surface, I stood on the shore of a salt-crusted sea and watched a human die. At least, I would have, before you peered through the veil, looked me in the eye, and your cracked, bloodied lips made a simple request.
“Don’t leave me.”
Shock became curiosity became obsession, sorrow, passion. The pursuit of your soul consumes me, whether you see me and burn for me as I do for you, or if I find you in a life where I remain a phantom, rejected entirely.
The world was ours to discover…before the prophecy.
The war sees you as a tool, Love. Friends and enemies grow on every side, gods shuffling you like a pawn, testing if they’re truly immortal as I fight for you.
Three thousand years, scores of gods, over a dozen pantheons,
and the very apocalypse itself couldn’t keep me away.
I will always find you,
for I am yours, and you are mine.
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Before "Caliban" was gifted his name…
This the No Other Gods prequel can be read alone or used to share the untold story found in The Deer and the Dragon and the quartet that follows between Marlow and Caliban as we witness the final cycle in the love between a deity and his human. Follow more than fifty gods, dozens of pantheons, and three thousand years, that follows the demon who fell for a human, from their first life, to the incarnation that brought the realms to their knees.
