THE CARTESIARILLION: 1. THE FIRST DEMONS

This is a story that begins before the world began, and before all of the gods except one, who was already old. Nara was the godess of the empty space between the stars, of darkness and loneliness. She was the first to come to be, and for long ages there was nothing but Nara all across the empty universe.

But as time went on, she regarded herself alone in her splendid isolation, and felt sad and alone. So she came together with the darkness that underlied her, and produced a daughter. But her first daughter was a demon, born of loss and frustration and darkness, and fell on her mother, not with love, but with nasty bitings and scratchings.

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