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What did you do that was productive yesterday?

[. . .]

Just so you know, I want a conversation so I’m going to wait until I have one before I proceed with a chapter that will mostly be me listening to the sound of my own voice like I spent the last few thousand years except for when you decide to save me from my boredom.

[We’re going to just. . .discuss life a bit before the chapter? I’ll have you know I am quite the introvert and not that skilled at conversations.]

Now we’re getting somewhere! So what are you worried about? I am already helping you by shaping our conversation with my questions, aren’t I? You can do this! I have faith in you!

[That is. . . more cringe-inducing than I thought it would be. Are you trying to embarrass me?

(I shall place “[ ]” this in front of a section of text where more than one person is saying it at the same time. In this case, The Undead and I will be saying something at the same time.)]

I might be. You make it eventful enough that I want to and sometimes when I act like an elder, it looks like [ ] the bar is not high.

[It’s weird, sometimes something that wouldn’t bother me or even register turns into cringe if someone of the older generation and worse, someone related to me does it.]

That might be all the entertainment I will get today but it is a start! So back to it. What did you do that was productive yesterday?

[. . . I completed a few lessons in a language teaching app called Duolingo]

That’s something productive for your mind! I only wish it could even slightly offset your daily screen time especially when screen time happens to be the time of day when we record our conversations.

Right, what about your body?

[. . .What about my body?]

What did you do that was productive or would lead to your body’s growth?

[Unfortunately nothing. I walked everywhere I had to go, so there was that but we both know that is more like maintaining my current condition than doing something that will lead to growth and the improvement of my condition.]

That is true. Does your diet help to maintain your current condition?

[. . . .Again, this is unfortunate. I am still on a student budget and a student diet. So my food is not that nutritious. If anything, due to my fitness aspirations, I painfully feel that my walks are not enough.]

Well then, you don’t need me to tell you what to do. But as I said before, I am here for support! Either today or tomorrow. Do something! If you fail to convince yourself to go to the gym, drop down and give me 5, 10, or some number that makes you feel the effort. Then we will build on that tomorrow and in the days to come. Remember, you are the one who wants physical growth. I am pushing you to do what you want. This is not reverse psychology. But more motivation to do what you want and feel like you should.

[Let’s hope I succeed today. You know me well enough to know that I still might fail to even start something as simple as 5 pushups, whether they are proper ones or wall-push-ups. But let’s do this! For the lifestyle and healthy habits!]

THAT’S THE SPIRIT! And that will have to tide me over for today. I believe your readers want an interesting story instead of our conversation. I also bet that the non-religious ones who are still here had a hard time deciding to stay after yesterday.

[To be fair. . . .I have dropped some novels for less. . . So while it would be discouraging. . . I would understand. . . been there, done that and all. . .]

That’s life. Though let us see if today might prove more interesting. For the ones that were intrigued by The Creator being a part of the story, my apologies, and condolences. He will not be a direct part of the story until I do not know what chapter again!

The last chapter ended with a new world for me to explore. And as a child who never knew parents, I had no separation anxiety. So I was but a child with a world full of toys to find.

I did not know where to start! Look right around me for simplicity? Or go over the things by creation day? Heck! The First day was me! . . .Yup, I can skip me and get to knowing me and what I am and can do later! My form does whatever I want it to so I can go right ahead and worry about that later.

The second day is confusing as it seemed to translate to either being adjusted on the Fifth day.

[For those who forgot. Light on this second day and Light sources on the Fifth day.]

If it was adjusted, that would mean that all light just turned into a creation of the fifth day for my intents and purposes. But if it was more than just that. . . .He would have made a lot of things on the second day and maybe made rules for it on the fifth?

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. . .

I decided to skip those days for now.

Yup! I shall explore my world by relevant creation days! Let us see. .. . . Huh, the Third day and sixth day may as well be the same thing! Exploring the skies and seas alone would mean ignoring all the creatures in them! We can’t do that! Take care of two interests at once I say!

First things first! The sky!

I think I already have a step in the right direction here. I think I can do what the airborne creatures are doing! I think I heard Stephen and Lilith call the act of staying in the air flying? I can fly! Or something like that. My form before I shifted into a body was just moving around without needing to touch anything. So I think I can fly. Though I maybe want to imitate the . .. did the couple call these creatures birds? I want to imitate the birds!

All of them have something that sets them apart from the land animals. .. The extensions on top are different! The land creatures mostly use both top and bottom extensions on the ground or something. These birds only use their bottom extensions for the ground! . . . . Or some of them use it for any solid surface I guess. . . Some of them are giving me strange looks from a surface that I could walk into or a surface above my head in some places. . . .

But all of them seem to use the top extensions to fly! I think I will worry about extension names later. . .First I want to try to fly!

HHUUUUUMPH! . . . . . .

. . .

. . . .

So while I can fly if I move my top extensions like the birds do. . . .I think that is just because I can fly. . . and I do not think my human top extensions helped me fly. . . . THAT’S IT! I need something better than this mouthful for them!

Let’s see where Stephen and Lilith are!

Found them! “Hey Stephen! Hey Lilith! I have some questions for you!”

They exchanged glances and then Lilith responded. “Hello Undead. What are those questions?.”

. . . . . . . [alright. . . . I . . . suck at writing conversations. . . .or you’re not bothering to check what I am doing to your narrated events. ]

Hey! I’m letting you be known as the author of this! You’re going to need to worry about this for yourself!

Stephen got down and leaned against one of the tall brown things with green tops and said “Why don’t the two of you join me and lean against a tree for our conversation? I think this conversation might carry on for a while. We can go for a walk later in the conversation if we feel like it. But I think our friend Undead already has some questions in mind.”

Lilith and I chose trees close to Stephen and imitated him, making sure we were facing him as we started.

“First, Stephen. You called these tall things with green tops trees?”

“Yeah, The Creator told me and Lilith that we would have to make names for pretty much everything here. So we have been doing that so far.”

“Yeah, Stephen and I have been going around and naming things as they come to mind. We started with the ground we stand, walk, sit or lie on. And then we moved on.”

Stand? Sit? Walk? These are interesting things. Not what I had in mind when I went to them. Let me try to not get distracted.

“So, what did you decide to call our . . .well. . . your upper extensions?”

“We started with Hands for whenever we talk about them. That was specific enough and we did not see any need to make it more complicated. We or someone else might in the future if that appeals to them.”

“I think Undead is going to ask about the bottom extensions next Stephen. Let me talk about that. We called them legs. We were thinking about talking about animals, ah right! We called all of the creatures, animals. Then the things that seem to come from the ground? Like how the trees do? We called them plants!

Back to the animals. We thought about talking about their hands and legs. But it seemed like we could just call all four legs. And some have other things too!”

“My question was related to that! I was looking at those animals you called birds. What are their hands called?”

“Lilith decided to call them wings! And we noticed something that might surprise you! Some of the land animals also have wings!”

“They do?!! Where?! Which ones?! I would love to see them!”

Lilith chuckled then looked at Stephen, “I think Undead has had enough sitting and would like to go for a walk while we talk about the wonders here! Time to go for a walk! Stephen? Should we show him the bats? The snakes? Or maybe one of the wolves or cats?”

It looked like I was in for a fun time! Yes, I know you know all about these creatures. I do too now. But I was a BABY! And I was going to explore! Also, I should have some creatures that are extinct in your world. And maybe some that do not exist in yours. But they are pretty much based on the same families so you're only missing varieties. Like more to the cat families, dog families, reptilian families, and more.

The couple took me on an adventure that day! It was a delight! I saw soooo many things and learned the name they were going by! I saw bats! A weird creature hanging upside down! They looked like some creatures Lilith called mice or rats. And there were some that looked like wolves!

I tried to see if I could do that too!

It did make Stephen and Lilith look at me strangely when I jumped trying to flip my feet above my head. . . .

I learned that my legs and theirs were too big to hold on to the small places the bats were holding on to. Though the couple somehow loved my idea! With looks of delight in their eyes, both jumped and took a similar posture to the bats.

I asked for their help doing so, and their advice was just to hold on tighter.

Young one, you might have forgotten. I was with your ancestor’s cousins! The perfect humans with bodies the likes of which you could not even dream!

They were significantly bigger than you are now. Some of you would not be any taller than their knees! The difference in present focus is how much bigger they were than you are now! And their perfect musculature just blew their mobility options to unimaginable proportions. They had the same shape as you and most of your readers. So no, they did not have monkey feet or bat feet!

They just . . . were different! As long as their limbs could imitate a creature's usage, they would do it! They jumped and grabbed onto cave tops, tree limbs, and more with just their feet. Like they just realized they could do that. We saw bats eating insects, fruit, or just flying out for anything.

Then they learned something like what I learned. Your human hands, they do not let you fly. I could only because I was different. Your human hands are not wings. Though some of the bats were very confused at the huge gusts of wind felt when Stephen and Lilith tried to flap their arms. It lifted the couple clear of the ground and knocked some bats around. It seemed that the bats were not irritated about this for some reason. So I had to ask. The response stuck with me and . . .I feel disappointment when I remember their answer. GREAT disappointment because of how humans changed.

They used a word. . .They said they were apparently Alphas. Then described Alphas as leaders. But before being Alphas. It seemed like they were the apex of our world. The Alphas of the world! Humans!

When I thought about it in the future, I was shocked at the significance of that statement. They found that they held absolute lordship over all creatures! That is what humans were made as! Overlords! I could be an Overlord while I kept their form!

I suppose my child self was not surprised as I thought of them being made in the image of The Creator and all. Being the overlord to everything else was to be expected.

In the days to come, as we explored our world, I would experience things that I later marvel at. Based on later circumstances. The progressive average human has made their height, as alphas, something to be shocked at. Though, there was a time when humans were stronger than the couple was now.

Though, don’t be surprised. The couple was still the apex of the world even then! Their passing was a tragedy! And quite a betrayal!

But these things will be stories for chapters to come.

So yes! I shall leave you to this imperfect cliffhanger!!!

It is one, right?

[You’re asking me? I have read many! But this is my first time writing one. . . I do not know. . . .I do not think this is as infuriating as some of the other cliffhangers I have been stopped at, but that could just be me.]

Hopefully, our storytelling will improve with experience. YOUR experience.

[BOOM!

Shots fired!

Author down!!!

We need a medic! Are any first responders in the website? A nurse perhaps? Or a doctor?]

Drama queen.

Back to the readers!

I hope to see you soon!

Do something productive with your day if you have not yet!

Keep all stupidity and foolishness away from you so I may see you again.

Until next time, young ones reading!