It was born, it didn't know what it was, nor how it was born, and didn't really have a conscience as a whole, but it still could feel a warm embrace surrounding it. It tried to search around itself but found nothing else besides the warm embrace of what could only be described as motherly love.
After expanding its own search range it found what could only be described as a dead world, black skies with ash floating around, constant trembling earth from continuous mound-like things spewing a red liquid all around. It kinda felt a warmth akin to the one its mother gave it, so it tried to fiddle around with that red liquid that was forming big puddles like reservoirs all around this black place.
Still, nothing else was around besides itself and its mother, who no matter how much it tried to prod, didn't respond, maybe she was tired?
So for now, it went to sleep beside its mother, it was also kinda sleepy, it would check itself and its mother again after waking up tomorrow...
It woke up again after a light sleep, but everything was so different now!
For starters, the sky wasn't covered in ash anymore!
It didn't know what it was covered since now it couldn't see it anymore...But it would after expanding its conscience through the dirt that was in its way. Because for some reason part of the red liquid turned into soil and rocks while sleeping. So after getting through the dirt, it found the world wasn't black and red anymore!
It was...Blue...For some reason, the red liquid that covered the world before wasn't there anymore, nor the mound-like things were spewing it anymore, or not all of them, a few here and there spew a little from time to time, but most of that red liquid turned into dirt and rocks after coming in contact with the blue liquid. It felt kinda cold, but it was a refreshing and kinda cool.
It still liked the warm embrace of Mother more, even if the blue sky was nice to watch, for some reason only half of this place was blue, the other was dark though. The dark half had little dots on the sky so it was nice to look at too.
But that didn't matter for now, Mother still was sleepy and this place was still empty, so it looked into itself more closely, since there wasn't much to do around.
Nothing special was found, its body was still in the warm embrace of Mother, only thing of importance was that it could look into its own and its mother's past. It didn't know how it was born, one moment there was nothing, then Mother was born and after some time It was born too.
They had a few neighbors around, but those were far away so it didn't matter that much to it, and it didn't feel any connection to them like with mother. But for now, it would go back to sleep, maybe next time it would be awoken by Mother!
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Mother moved!
It was awoken by Mother slightly moving in her sleep!
It quickly searched their shared history to see what made Mother move, but the only change it saw were a few rocks falling from the sky...It also learned that the blue sky and the dark sky swapped their positions from time to time...Maybe they liked to change places to not get bored?
Wait! Here it was!
There were small little guys on the blue liquid!
They almost got missed since they were so little and most of the stuff around was so big, they looked so cute swimming around!
It wondered how long had they been around...A quick search on its history didn't show them, it seems they showed around a while ago after the rocks fell from the sky...
Another quick search into the rocks showed they were somewhat different from the rocks mother had around, it seems they had a few extra little things on them...?
It wasn't sure, but since these seemed to help the little guys maybe it should try to get a few extra?
Mother had a few around, maybe it would coach their closest neighbor to get them a few of the ones he was taking...Aaaand done!
Aaand sleepy...It only prodded their neighbor and it was sleepy? It wanted to watch the little guys a little more...
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It hurts!
It was awoken by a terrible headache!
And mother was hurting too!
What the hell?
WHY THERE ARE SO MANY ROCKS FALLING FROM THE SKY?!?
It made a quick search on their history, it seems that after falling asleep, their neighbor kept shoving rocks their way...
THE LITTLE GUYS!
They were okay for now, but they didn't have too many places to go with so many rocks falling!
S̵T̶O̸P̶!̴
What? What was that?
It was different from its usual thoughts...It worked since their neighbor started catching the rocks again, so the rock shower stopped for now...
It seems that projecting the Idea helped in stopping the rocks, but maybe they would need another defense... The little guys would be in danger if It had awoken a little late...
It was already feeling the sleep coming too, it seems that the little guys helped Mother and themselves to be more active so they ought to pay rent too!
They were living with them after all. But how to stop the rocks that their neighbor didn't stop...If only there was something just below the blue sky to stop them...Wait that was it!
There was something in the sky that made it blue, if it increased the amount maybe it could help to stop them!
G̵e̷n̷e̵r̵a̶t̶e̶ ̴g̵a̸s̸
It seemed two was the limit, for now, it could already feel the sleep coming...But it was happy with this, maybe after waking up again Mother would be even more active!
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It worked!
After waking up it quickly went to review its work, and a few of the rocks that came their way were destroyed before hitting the ground!
And the materials on them still fell on the ground anyway!
Most of them anyway...
The only problem it could find was...Well, there weren't only little guys anymore...There were still little guys, but there were also big guys!
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Mother was moving more too!
It seems the bigger guys had something special on them that made Mother more active!
It wasn't really sure what it was, its own body was the same, but its mind felt somewhat different? It felt like it could grow a second body any second or something. It was a weird feeling, but it didn't matter!
There were more guys around! Half of them were in the blue liquid for now, and it could understand them, if it was a choice, it would also stay in the red liquid near Mother's embrace too.
Some of the big guys were on the soil, and there were a few little guys on the soil too, not as little as the little guys before its last sleep session though. And of course, some of the bigger buys liked the blue liquid more, funny thing was most of the guys on land had these weird things protruding from their bodies that they used to move around, while the guys on the blue liquid used smaller and slimmer things to move around, a few didn't have anything at all and moved their bodies to get around though.
It wondered if there was a difference? The only difference it could see was the speed of movement though. Maybe next time it awoke Mother would speak to her! Wasn't that a nice thing to look forward?
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PAIN AGAIN?!?
It awoke quickly with pain again, mother was moving less and less this time!?!?
What happened ?!?
Was their sky defense breached? It couldn't see any rock falling from the sky on their shared history though...
The little guys were still around, they were a few less than before but nothing was different...
Wait...Less little and big guys? Why? Shouldn't there be more?
A more detailed search and it had the answer...It was a medium guy... It knew some of the big guys liked to eat the little guys, but it didn't mind since the ones that ate lesser guys usually replaced and made new guys in their place anyway, so since there would be more guys around it was a net gain.
The little guys made more little guys faster than the medium and big guys could eat, and the medium and big guys made fewer guys so there were always new guys around.
But one of the medium guys didn't like the idea of being eaten so he made an attempt to not be eaten. How did he do it?
He ate weird stuff from the floor. He ate stuff that no other guy would eat, so his scaly body started to look less appealing to the big guys. But it still was chased around, so it adapted. It started to keep pieces of the little guys it ate in its mouth so they would fester and stink. But kept eating poisonous things.
In the end, no one would want to eat him, no one would want to be near it, not even the medium guys of their own species. In the end, it lived and died alone, it wasn't hunted but it seemed like a sad life...
But that wasn't the problem! Its body was a problem!
It was poisoning the land, and since it lived near a river it had poisoned the river and so, everyone that drank from that was poisoned, they didn't stink like the medium guy so the big guys ate them. And they were poisoned too.
That medium guy did a really good job at what it wanted, and it seemed like the smaller little guys on its body were destroying the other smaller little guys on the bodies of everyone that had contact with them!
And almost every little, medium, and even the big guys were infected at this point! They couldn't eat because everything was tainted, so they didn't have the energy to recover!
They would all die at this point!
And that was why Mother was going farther into slumber!
Since they had a defense for the sky rocks no new ones would fall, and it wasn't sure if they could get new small little guys or little guys!
It had to do something!
It searched their shared history to see if something could be done, but everything was the fault of that medium guy!
It wished that it would just...
D̵̺̃i̶̻͘s̸͚̃ã̸̱p̷͍̃p̷̨̓e̸͔̕a̴͔͆r̸͖͝
Wait what?
Did her idea leak again?
Wait the medium guy?
Sleepy...Haven't fixed...the problem...
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MOTHER NOOOOOOOOOOO
Wait mother is normal again, what?
But it didn't fix the problem...
Little guys? Still around, most of them moved into the land and now the ones on the blue liquid didn't have the weird limbs anymore.
Medium guys? Only a few stayed on the blue liquid, most moved into the land.
Big guys? Not many around, only a few ones on land, and on the liquid, the ones that stayed most liked to be near mother like itself.
But there were more now?
Did the last idea it used by accident do something?
A check on their shared history showed...a divergence?
It seems the last idea somehow wiped the medium-scaly guy, the Komodo dragon? It had a name? What's a name?
She wasn't sure what a name was, but that scaly guy was named and of that she was sure.
Wait...She? Why was she a She?
What was happening? Mother was more active so that was good. But she didn't know why she was a she, nor why the scaly guy was a Komodo dragon.
It seems that after the idea made it so the Komodo dragon didn't exist anymore the other of its species didn't follow its examples...No one did actually, before a few were doing the same (Not at the same extreme though).
So it was good?
But why did it diverge the history?
It seems the idea had compensated for something called Causality?
The effects the Komodo dragon had on Mother and those around them had to be compensated somehow, and since she went to sleep from the after effect everything got solved on its own.
After the Komodo dragon got erased everything changed, there were new medium guys around too!
Well not medium guys, they called themselves humans. And they liked to name things!
Mother was more active after they started naming everything, so it was a good thing!
They named the blue liquid water and the red liquid magma...For some reason. Now that she looked closer, its own appearance had finished forming, well her second one anyway.
Now she looked like them, and she could think clearer too, she knew when and what could cause her to go to sleep. Could feel the number of ideas she could project and their effects more clearly too.
And somehow, could understand that mother was becoming more active with more sapient things in their home!
Maybe those humans weren't that bad, and since she was still somewhat scared of the ramifications of the ideas she used, she would limit the effect on them. She could see the...Other effects the last idea could have.
And the probability of something worse happening was way bigger, so she had lucked out on having only these humans around, one of those results would have made this place inhabitable to any kind of guy, little or big. So if that happened Mother would never awake... So gotta take care of these little guys. Well, not little guys, but humans.
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Whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy?
Why do they like to kill each other that much?!?
These humans like blood too much!
Maybe waiting for another species to gain sapience was the right move after all?
She wasn't sure if her idea of keeping the humans around was good or not.
Mother was like always sleeping, and after a few experiments with ideas, she found something that she wasn't sure what to think about.
The more ideas she used, the more she could keep the humans around, the more they would develop, and the more mother would move on her sleep. All good right?
Well, almost, the more she used the Idea to move the world, the more she was being pushed away from her mother's embrace. Not as in mother didn't like her anymore. But as in a physical thing, her real body was being pushed toward the surface.
Not her human-like body, that one she could move all around like nothing, not that anyone could see her anyway. At least if she was pushed away from the magma she could finally see itself clearly, so that was something.
If only these humans stopped killing each other... Not that she would use an Idea to stop them, last time she tried to help them that weird slit eye ended up killing half the humans on his continent, if not for the fact that The Attila guy left kids everywhere it would be a loss in humans... Well, he did cool the world with all that killing, so that's a way to leave a mark on history.
But then again, if she hadn't diverged the history he would have moved to another continent and that was another whole series of problems, she didn't want another scaly guy situation again. These humans weren't ready for that... Not yet anyway.
Now the question was, should she stop the burning of that library or not...
On one side if that library is burnt down, the knowledge loss will be devastating, and knowledge is the thing that stirs mother the most. But if she stops that library from burning then the rebound will make that crazy guy rise in power and start killing more humans around.
And unlike Attila, he can't have kids. So that will be a net loss.
Maybe she could save the knowledge somehow? That would have less rebound, should have less rebound. At the very least she couldn't see any genocide in the short term from this.
Let's do that. Now, what idea to use, gotta be precise or we can end with another dodo event. Can't believe they would run to their deaths...She wanted to save them! Why would they run towards their deaths when she made them run away from a predator?!?
At least the backlash was contained. And the fish liked the extra meat...
Ş̶̛a̶̧͝v̷̓͜e̴̻͝ ̵̞̂t̸̮̄h̶͎̍è̵̞ ̵̡͗k̴̘̃n̶̥͑ö̶̲́w̵̮͐l̸͇͛e̵̟̐d̵̥͆g̵͒ͅe̴̞͐,̷͕̊ ̷̡̈́h̵͎͂î̴̪d̶͕̍ē̷͙ ̵̗͝ị̴̈́t̶̬̐ ̵͚̀f̷͂ͅr̵̺̽ö̷̪́m̵̘͒ ̶̭̐t̷̹́h̶̹͂ê̶̫ ̷̞̈́w̶̧̅o̶͖͋ř̷ͅl̸̙̏ḏ̵͆ ̸̥̈́t̴̘̓ï̴̜l̵̟̈́ḻ̸͘ ̷̳̇i̷̬̓t̶͈͛'̸͐ͅs̴͔̀ ̴̠̀ņ̷̔ē̵͕ĕ̴̢d̷͍͠ę̷͂ḑ̸͂ ̵̜̏ö̴͚ŕ̷̗ ̷̜͝y̷̬͐õ̸͓u̵̱͌ ̷͇̓c̵͈̔á̶̪ṇ̷̃ ̸̨̇p̵͈͛r̸͔̔o̴̺̽t̶̹͠ë̶̯́c̷̟͋ţ̸̔ ̸̹͝i̶̦͝t̵̺͊
That should do it, concise, compact, and clear, nothing should go wrong!
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That was a nice nap, why didn't she take more of those nowadays?
Wait...Why was she napping?
She was saving that library!
She can't use cheap Ideas if they are sent into the past!
Humans? Still alive
The Great Library of Alexandria? Still got destroyed
New dominant species? None
Idea Body? Still human
Real Body? 1 Kilometer from the surface
Wait...what?
HER BODY WASN'T NEAR THE CORE OF MOTHER ANYMORE?!?
WHY?!?
She didn't kill any human! She didn't disappear anyone!
Why wasn't she on the magma near Mother's core? At least now she knew her body was a pretty purple-looking crystal. With some smooth curves too!
Then again, she was all curves since it was an oval-like crystal. And it had some geodes growing on the side. Was she molting? Did crystal molt? That doesn't matter right now though.
She could still feel her mother's embrace and at least she knew what her body looked like now...
But the last time she was moved a large amount was on the Attila event!
And that time the planet was cooled a few grades! In this one the planet was the same, the humans didn't know what happened, and the history was mostly the same in both versions too!
Wait...Divergence? WHY IS THERE SUCH A HUGE DIVERGENCE?!?
WHAT DID THAT HUMAN DO?!?
He...didn't do anything special though?
He took some books, important books, and scrolls...He escaped from the burning library... And even started his own secret library to prevent the event from happening again...
He was a descendant of that Alex Conqueror guy?
The same guy she sent on a search for the ocean so he wouldn't follow in Attila's footsteps?
DID HE START A CULT ON THE IDEA OF CREATING THE SECOND COMING OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT?
...Humans.
Why had it to be humans...
Why couldn't cats become sentient instead of these monkey pretenders...
Wasn't it enough that some of them thought they were monkeys' evolution?
Wait what?
Since when they thought they were evolutions of the monkey? Darwin?
Did he base his theory on the adaptation of birds on a remote island? But they didn't evolve... Granted they don't have access to her records, so they don't know they just popped into existence from one of her early mistakes...
At least if she didn't sleep much she would have liked to be awake to steer his theory into "The Theory of Adaptation" instead of "Evolution", but they would fix it at some point.
For now, she had to find a way to get rid of that nascent cult, they were created from the causality backlash so they might make a problem at some point.
It would hurt her causality piggy bank, but better to prepare a big event to get rid of them early on.