My world is... complicated. We don't have anything like that - in the majority of people's everyday lives.
[He smiles a little mysteriously. He uses his hands to gesture animatedly during his explanation.]
Do you believe in God, Anita? Perhaps this world is but a dream a certain being is having. Because it is a dream, creating and altering the world we call 'reality' is child's play for this being. Humans have defined such a being as 'God'.
[There is another pause as he smiles enigmatically at her.]
On my world, this being was unaware of the position it held as God. It thought it was a normal person, but it wanted the world to be more interesting, and actively sought out such things. Because the being desired it, aliens, time-travelers, and espers came into existence, though they stayed mostly in the shadows, simply observing. [He laughs, realizing something.] I suppose I must add dimensional sliders to that list too.
Common sense told the being that these creatures could not exist, and so even when the people this being gathered were an alien, a time-traveler, an esper, and a dimensional slider - their identities were all unknown to the being. They still are.
If at some point that being wished that vampires or werewolves were real - then they truly would be.
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[He smiles a little mysteriously. He uses his hands to gesture animatedly during his explanation.]
Do you believe in God, Anita? Perhaps this world is but a dream a certain being is having. Because it is a dream, creating and altering the world we call 'reality' is child's play for this being. Humans have defined such a being as 'God'.
[There is another pause as he smiles enigmatically at her.]
On my world, this being was unaware of the position it held as God. It thought it was a normal person, but it wanted the world to be more interesting, and actively sought out such things. Because the being desired it, aliens, time-travelers, and espers came into existence, though they stayed mostly in the shadows, simply observing. [He laughs, realizing something.] I suppose I must add dimensional sliders to that list too.
Common sense told the being that these creatures could not exist, and so even when the people this being gathered were an alien, a time-traveler, an esper, and a dimensional slider - their identities were all unknown to the being. They still are.
If at some point that being wished that vampires or werewolves were real - then they truly would be.
This being, well...
[He takes a slow drink of water.]
I went to high school with her.