Gods

Mira is lying in her bed, reading as usual, when Kaya suddenly comes in again.

I want to go hunting again some time.
Are you up for it?

I'm reading right now.
Besides that we recently just got Tara and didn't eat her.

Not because I didn't want to.
We can still have her. Then we wouldn't need to hunt.

No, I'd prefer not to.

If you don't want to go hunting with me and also don't let me eat Tara, I might also just use you as food.
That would be even easier.

You won't do that anyway.

Are you sure? I could just kill you now.

Kaya takes out a knife and points at it.

Then I'll take my chances.

Fine, I'll just stay here.

Don't you want to hunt with Elena?

I could, but she doesn't seem to be in the mood for it.

I wish there were some other creatures we could use for that.
Hunting would be much more fun if I couldn't befriend them.

So creatures who just are there for meat.
Like meat fruits, who would probably run around like us?

Kind of. But I think they would be real creatures, just like us. But much more interesting.
Maybe similar to the gods, but probably smaller, maybe around our size.

That sounds fun. So you are talking about small meat gods?
Sounds delicious.

Yeah, but not only for eating them.
They could do many different things, just like the gods.

Let me guess!
You are thinking about the big bird, right?
But it probably would have two heads and four legs or something.

I was a little more creative this time.
I've been thinkig about this for some time already.

Well, now I'm curious.

How about this. A person is basically just a girl like us.
But the feet don't have any toes. And the hands are just like these feet.
Then the back is bent like this, so they always have to crawl and can't stand.

Mira bends her body to show, what she's talking about.

They also have fur all over their body.
And a tail at the back, almost like the big bird, only elongated.
And pointed spikes only at the joints of the limbs.
Something like that would be cool, wouldn't it?

Maybe, but it doesn't exist.
Why do you need them have spikes?

They are cool, aren't they?

Hmm...
But if they are so similar to us, you wouldn't eat them, would you?

Of course they couldn't talk.

Suddenly Elena comes in.

I think I've seen such a creature before.
Resa has many books about things like that, so I might have seen it there.
Except for the spikes.

I knew it! Why would anyone have spikes?

Actually it did have spikes.
But they were on the head.

Ha, my creature really exists!

It was just in a book. That doesn't have to mean anything.

Yeah, maybe it's just another god.
I doubt you know all of them.

Could be, but Resa usually doesn't deal with gods.
I still can already imagine that some gods outside the valley look like this.
They might live in the dessert, or in the mountains.

I'm sure they exist. What would I give to see them for real?
But the big bird is still my favorite god.
Can we go see it one day?

I think it's too dangerous. It's a god, after all.
Besides, he flies in the sky.

And what about one of the other gods?
The closest one to our place lives in a cave, doesn't he?

As I said, visiting gods can be dangerous.
You might be eaten you if you get too close.

But the gods are our protectors!

Where I come from, there was a god who stayed very close to civilization.
We used to feed him a few girls now and then.
Whoever got too close to him was eaten.
There were enough people who were just waiting to give their lives another meaning by dying.
Probably the god knew that.
But getting close to a god might still be risky.
And I think we shouldn't risk anything.

And if we kill them and eat them?
I wonder how they taste.

Don't even dare to think about that.
The god might eat you before you get close to him.

Too bad. Maybe it's really not worth the risk.

I'm sure, one day you get the chance to see one.
I promise!

Mira smiles at Elena.
Kaya leaves. She probably accepted she wouldn't get meat for a while.