the thrilling continuation! @inkedinserendipity’s most recent contribution can be found here. more to come tomorrow, but in the meantime: let’s resolve this.
When two lives converge, they do not do so cleanly.
They do so in the way that threads are tangled; messy, fraying, mingling in broken ends. The universe is not built to accommodate broken ends. Its inclination is, of course, to weave them together, and they call that inclination Fate.
At least, they used to.
“I have a wager,” says Judgment to Fate.
WHAT IS IT, THEN? says Death. YOU ARE NOT GOING TO DEAL ME IN?
They dismiss her projection with a wave of one incorporeal hand. “I wager that soon enough, between the two of us, one of us will bend the rules. Not to say we’ll—well, we won’t overstep, but someone will fold to the temptation. It just seems inevitable, right? Look at this universe we’ve made—too many possibilities, too—too many potential exceptions. It’s gotta happen eventually.”
Fate smiles. “I suppose you’re right.”
Death stands up and looks down on them, and her offense wavers the plane around them. AM I SIMPLY NOT TO BE INCLUDED?
Her two fellows seem amused, at best. Fate’s sympathy softens the blow, but Judgment seems not to care. She cannot fault them for it, not truly. “Sorry, no,” they say. “Death’s providence has limits, just like ours does, but yours—yours are pretty simple, aren’t they? Mortals live, they die, they go to your domain. Where would you even make room for an exception?”
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