Chapter 1 page 8 The First Days are the Hardest Part

Well, tonight, it would mean getting the BANKS to pay a bet. That’s never been done before.

ABEL? Is that - is that really you?

Yes, MIKEL, I am just a boy. Barely 19 years old in your ages. But I am AGES old, MIKEL. Millions of them. My brother CAIN and I have been at this battle for eons.

I am the first and only HUMANOID demigod ever created with brown eyes - I was created in your image, and as you can tell, like you, I am out of place amongst my people. But I am also a PRINCE.

Like I said to you before, we had to get the entire empire through a black hole. The flesh wasn’t going to survive. So the creator consolidated the flesh into just one tree. As the story goes, my mother and father were banished after four bytes were taken from this tree fruit. But they weren’t banished, MIKEL, they were escaping.
 LIFE is an escape from DEATH. GOD is LOVE. The “banishment” wasn’t a punishment. It was an escape, from death and wars amongst other Gods. There is much I cannot tell you. I can’t tell you everything, not just because of the rules – but