A Record of Our Lord Solipsis's Question and Answer Session done by Librarian

  Question asked by Cook.

“What is normal anyways?”

  Answer from Our Solipsis

“Normal is a guy. As far as I know, he was human before becoming one of the congregation. He's also very sarcastic.”

  Unprompted reply from Normal

“Am not!”

  Retort from Solipsis

“Are too.”

  Question from Bird

“Oh great and powerful Solipsis! Why won't you let me visit the Ocean?”

  Answer from Solipsis

“Because the soul you once were chose to become part of the Congregation and not a Seeker. You specifically, though? Because somehow you'd wake a dead world with your nonsense.”

  2nd Question from Bird

“Do you really think I could really?”

  Answer from Solipsis

“I'm not finding out.”

  3rd question from Bird

“Why not?”

  Answer from Solipsis

“I don't want to.”

  Question from Weaver

“Can I go back home yet? Some Seekers still need coats from me. The poor dears will need them before they head out next.”

  Answer from Solipsis

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“Very well.”

  Question from Rat

“Are you the Ocean?”

  Answer from Solipsis

“No, I'm Solipsis.”

  Question from Normal

“Is this the reasons you tend to ignore us when we ask you questions?”

  Answer from Solipsis

“Yes.”

  Question from Spider

"Uhm...Solipsis, why did you decide to create the garden?"

  Answer from Solipsis

"Well now, a good question for once."

  "Long ago there was nothing but the dead worlds and the ocean of the forgotten. I was alone" Solipsis said as he motioned to the nothingness above.

  "To the Gods in their Paradises? I was a monster born of death and chaos who ruled over the trash they threw out. No better than a vermin." His hand of bone slid across the stone on which he sat. The Amphitheater was quiet as the Congregation listened.

  "To the Devils who ruled over their Hells? I shun them. Their views of souls as nothing more than fuel for their creations? I hated it." His voice held an anger. "All they tempted, they burned away. Their sick want for nothing but the power which life embedded into those they claimed. All the memories discarded into the nothingness. Forming sad stories I often found. When the first Devil approached me? I knew him already. Even if he knew nothing of me. With my hands, I held him beneath the waters and sent him back to where he came from."

  "To the Fae and their Courts? That one is less easy. As devils are to gods, I am to the Fae. You are to them, too, as you are my children. Fae live in a shifting world of cycles of life. Endless forests and are ever changing. Even in their darkest states, they are still ruled by that.

  "We, on the other hand? We are locked in an ever lasting order. The ocean and worlds here may drift and move, but they never change. Nothing grows or lives in them. No matter how Chaotic we can get, our order remains. Thus is why they could never accept me amongst them."

  Solipsis's skeleton arm retreated into the flowing darkness. His deer like skull tilted slightly upwards towards the nothingness above. The red glowing lights dimmed inside slightly. He said, almost in nostalgic bliss, "Then camre the first soul who fell down here. A soul who had been rejected by the Gods, cast out from the Devils, and Shunned by the Fae. I caught it as it drifted slowly down. This was the first time I had ever held such a thing. It was the first light I had ever seen. It seemed so pure."

  "It was what all the others would have called pathetic. The memories were vague inside it. The soul's life had been utterly banal. No one seemed to have cared for it in life, but none seemed to hate it either. It hadn't a family to speak of nor seemed to hold much interest for one. The entire life had been spent just...existing. Day in and day out. I could see why none of them had wanted it. There was basically nothing to gather from it. Nothing special about it. Only remarkable by how plain it was.

  "Yet, to me? It was a wonder. The only memories I had ever seen here were that of the truly dead. That soul still held the spark of life to it. So I kindled that spark. I fed it power and it was reborn here with me. Yet, sadly, this process had consumed it's memories, too. So, unable to leave that new life alone? I created a small little island for it to live on," said Solipsis. One of the glowing lights in the school brightening and looking directly at Normal. The human like figure merely smiled wryly back from under his half mask.

  "After that, rarely, more souls would find there way here. None were like the first, though. They were coherent and able to communicate. Even having been able to subconsciously take on the form of their former lives. All would falter at the truth, though. They had either been abandoned or, worse for some, forgotten by the very Gods. So I took pity on them and had them be reborn as members of the congregation.

  "Some rejected this, though. Yet, they also could never truly fit in with the Congregation outright. They were still very much the mortals they were in life. So I did the only thing I could think of. I offered them the option to sail the Ocean of the Forgotten and to explore the dead worlds. Even when warned, some still took that instead"

  Quiet sat over the Congregation for a while. The only sound was that of Librarian rapidly scribbling down the story. Some of the Congregation glanced at Normal, who merely ignored them.

  4th Question from Bird

"So I was the soul you kept around because it could sing better than you, yes?"

  Answer from Solipsis

Darkness appeared under Bird. She fell in. Everyone could hear her squawking as she dropped into the nothing.