I walk back to my bed and fall asleep nearly instantly, not waking up until over two hours later. I lay in bed staring at the ceiling, not wanting to get up, yet having a nagging feeling that something is about to happen. I blink and I find myself viewing a scene, a planet, I don’t recognize it but it feels familiar. As if I’m a ghost, I fly around the planet in seconds, taking it all in. It's heavily populated, and the majority seems to be under the control of a single government. I fly around it again in time to see myself riding through a large portal to this world. I don't look the same, but somehow I know it’s me. I’m declaring something in a language I don't recognize, then people start freaking out and fleeing. I start panning over the world, watching plagues and pests flood the planet, viruses killing leaders and rebellious people, and in the end, I am turning the capital city to salt. Then I find myself walking the streets of one of the other cities, seeing the horrors I unleashed on them. I wake up in the middle of seeing people rotting away while still alive, screaming in agony as their flesh melts and bones turn black, to see Lillith standing over me, shaking my shoulder.

“Are you ok?” She asks worriedly.

I sit up, dazed, “I.. I don’t know? I think I had a vision, but whether it was of my past or my future, I have no idea.” Lillith blinks at me in the darkness, then sits on the edge of my bed.

“What happened in it?” She asks. “You were shaking and breathing really fast.”

“Well...it has to do with one of my blessings, it's the blessing of Judgement. I was riding onto a planet and for whatever reason, I judged it, and found it needed smiting, the horrors I committed……” I shudder. She watches my face and I can’t read her expression.

“What is the blessing of judgment?”

I hang my head, “It is the ability to spawn pests, plagues, and sentient, customizable viruses onto a world, it allows for local eclipses, killing of nearby plant life, the turning of water into a blood-like substance, and once a year, a major city can be turned into salt.” Lilith stares at me for a minute.

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“You can do all that?” She finally asks, her voice a little shaky.

“I can, and, based on the fact I looked different in my vision, I have done so.” She curls her knees to her chest, looking away from me.

“You really were going easy on me.” She says finally, seemingly trying to make a joke.

“I never plan on using that power, unless I am given a reason to hate an entire world,” I say firmly. She nods slowly, then looks back at me. She hesitates, then lays down, blankets separating us, her head on my chest.

“Why did you hate the world you killed in your vision?” She asks quietly.

“I don’t know….. Alastor mentioned yesterday that I have the qualifications to be an intergalactic mobster, so I may have been ordered to do it.” She doesn’t respond for a few minutes, and my heart rate slowly returns to normal.

“What are you thinking?” I ask her. She shrugs, an awkward motion against my side.

“Just, wondering if that’s what you’ll do again, once you are powerful enough.” She says.

“I don’t know, I never plan on it, but we do live forever, I cannot promise that I never will.” I say sincerely, “I know that isn’t a great promise, but it's the best I can do, that this version of me will, to the best of my ability, choose to refrain from this power.”

She nods against my chest again. “Ok,” She says. “I suppose I should let you go do whatever you do?” She asks, but makes no move to sit up.

“I don’t need any more sleep, but I also don’t want to go do something today. So... If you want to stay here with me until morning, that is fine by me.” She nods again, and it feels sleepy, a little slower.

“You can join me under these blankets if you prefer.” I offer. She lifts her head and slips under the covers with me.

“Tanks.” She whispers.

“Boom.” I whisper back.

She swats at my face sleepily, “You know what I meant…” I nod and pull her in a little closer. She tucks her head under my chin and seems to fall asleep again. I pull up a computer simulation I had been working on back at Earth, and continue running it.