The slime rolled it’s nonexistent eyes at my outburst. I could tell by the way its body rolled.

Now that that horrible revelation is out of the way, I looked into the stream to gauge my appearance. I was a beautiful looking child. Dear lord. If I wasn’t me I would be trying to woo me. Wait, that made no sense. And I’m a child. Shame on me. Shame.

I had silver hair and dark blue eyes. Surely a combo that would win the hearts of many. I tried to make myself look manlier, but it didn’t work.

“Hey, if I’m a god, do I still need to eat and shit?”

“You don’t even need to breathe.”

“Okay, wow. That’s cool. Wait, that goes against what you said earlier. You said it smelled like I wet myself.” 

“I only said that because you stunk of fear, which is very unbecoming of such a high ranking god such as yourself.”

I rolled my eyes, “I apologize. I was plummeting towards earth without a parachute.”

“You need to stop using words I don’t know. It’s very frustratting.”

“What do you call the ground?”

“Uh,” it started, “the ground.”

“Well we called it earth back where I’m from, one of the four elements.”

“Uh… there’s fire elements and we call dirt.”

“Well, I mean, we called it dirt too. You know what, we’re still gonna call it earth. I decided.”

Suddenly there was a shift in the wind, if you could call it that. Like something in the air changed. “Dear lord,” the slime muttered.

“What?”

“You changed the word!”

“I changed a word? How does that work.”

“I’ve only heard about gods doing that, I can’t believe you did that. What am I gonna tell my superiors?”

“You could not, I guess. Just don’t tell them I did that and then they’d have no reason to believe that the word has changed right?”

“Never do that again.”

I raised my hands in defeat. “I got it. I won’t do it again.” Though honestly I didn’t how I did it. Maybe saying that I decided stuff meant that that became what I said it would. Actually, that made little to no sense. 

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“Good. Now, what’s is my name?”

“Do I have to choose?”

“Yes, originally it was god that granted names to all beings, then with the expanding population, he made more gods to fulfill individual duties, and as your familiar, it is your job to name me.”

“I see, how about…” I thought for a long moment, “Halibut?”

It seemed like it narrowed its eyes at me, it jiggled around. “Having gone through your memories I am thoroughly disappointed in your naming skills.”

I held my head, “When did you go through my memories? Isn’t that like an invasion of privacy?”

“I’m your familiar, everything you know is automatically sent to me. I don’t want to be named after a fish, come up with something better.”

I sighed, “Fine. How about Rin?”

“Sounds like a fine name to me. From now on, I am Rin.” It bowed to me, if slimes could do that. “It is an honor to serve you.”

“Don’t I need a name?”

“You’re the God of Death? You don’t need a name.”

“I feel like I need a name. There’s power in a name you know.”

“How about Vanilla?”

“No.”

“Vallina.”

“What’s with your obsession with vanilla?”

“I think I got it from you. From your memories it smells and tastes wonderfully. So I was hoping you could take on those qualities and stop smelling like fear.”

“Hey!”

“Vallina though. I name you that. It would be an honor for you to accept it.”

I mean, when it put it like that, it really seemed like I couldn’t reject. I rolled my eyes. “Okay, Rin, what’s next?”

“Well, the first step was getting my name sorted out, so I guess the next step is to find us a home. I suggest heading to the nearest city and taking over the old temples.”

“That is what we’ll do then!” Yay! Adventure! Also, people! People are nice to be around.