The First ones

In the timeless expanse before creation, there existed nothing—no matter, no energy, and no time. Yet, at the inception of eternity, the One, the source of everything, exploded into many new pieces, shards of its essence, and among these shards was O.

Alone in the vast void, the void itself seemed to shy away from O, as if afraid to be touched by her. Through the boundless darkness, she roamed in search of others. Despite traversing countless millennia, solitude remained her only companion, and tears of loneliness streamed down her face. Even these tears, however, provided no solace; they meandered around her like ethereal specks of light in the infinite dark, creating a gentle glow around her. Despite the lack of comfort, O focused on her tears and their light, glistening around her. Eventually, driven by profound loneliness, she resolved to fashion a friend, taking a bone from within herself and sculpting it into a man.

"Hello?" It said to her, with a questioning look on its face. "I am your friend," she told him. "Your name will be E."
"I like my name," said E. "What is your name?" O revealed her name, and with that revelation, she was no longer alone. O and E traversed the endless darkness together, her tears ever around her, careful not to venture too close to the void. Eventually, her tears settled in their own little places, where they could be at peace, shimmering like delicate embers. E faithfully accompanied her, and together they were happy.

Eventually, a new life began to grow inside of O. She did not doubt that it was because she was no longer alone. She had only been with E for a few thousand years, compared to the countless eons alone, and no life had grown inside of her before. It must have been the result of the two of them joining together. When the new life came from her, they were so happy, and the two had now become three.

The new life could not speak, and it could not fly or float by itself, or even move for that matter, and it was very small. Despite the fact that the life was so fragile and helpless, O couldn't help but adore it. At first, O and E were concerned about its lack of speech or ability to move, but as the ages went by, the new life slowly grew larger, little bit by little bit, and eventually, it began to speak. When it said its first words, O was overjoyed and finally decided to give the new life a name. She named it EO because she had come from both of them. EO was different from them. Her hair was a new color, one O would call green, and her body was brown like E's eyes, not like O and E whose bodies had been the color of bone. EO's eyes were a bright blue like O's. Her eyes were larger than theirs as well; sometimes O looked into them and felt like she would be sucked into them and be gone forever.

EO was a happy life, and once she learned to fly and float, she would always be flying around them quickly and playing with the void. It would always hide from her, like it had done from O, and EO would look for it. But as she grew older, she grew less happy, she stopped playing with the void, and she stopped flying around them with glee, and now she just flew along, beside O and E on their journey through the void. O thought it was just part of growing older, but at some point, EO became so unhappy that she said she wanted to stop.

"Why do you want to stop? What can we do to make you want to continue with us?" O asked her. "Nothing," she said. "We fly for eternity; nothing new ever happens, I feel empty, without purpose, I want my existence to be of consequence, I cannot go on forever like this." O and E were sad. They wanted to help, but nothing they did would make EO feel better. They tried giving her love and affection; they tried carrying her; they tried tickling her skin, but whatever they did, they could not give her a purpose. But O had a plan. If O and E could make another life, perhaps it could keep EO company, and perhaps that would make her feel better, perhaps it would give EO a reason to be happy.

And it wasn't long before O had another life growing inside of her. But even before it came into this world, EO had succumbed to despair, and she was on the verge of death, O could feel it. The blue light inside of her eyes was dimming, and now, when O looked into her eyes, it wasn't bright and consuming with a hunger for life, they were dim and without glow. Her skin was becoming brittle and fragile, where it had once been supple and smooth. When finally O's new child was born, EO was on the verge of death. O wept shiny tears, and E comforted her and told her it would be okay. The new life looked like EO, but its skin was blue like EO's eyes had been, and it had no hair or eyes, nose or mouth, but O knew he wouldn't need those. O called her new child C. O had one more plan that might save EO. She placed C's little body in EO's arms, and she used their energy for her greatest creation yet. She shaped EO's body into a ball that became the world; she shaped EO's eyes into the sky. C's body became the endless waters that would cover EO for other life to thrive in, and at last, O used EO's green hair to create plants, that at this time merely lived in C's Oceans. Together they made the world, and EO wept, not with sorrow, but with joy, for she now felt a change, and with it, happiness.

O and E now decided to stay here because here they could watch over their children, and they could fill EO with many more creations, giving her purpose. Next, O had twins, Ehwa and Ahma, that became the sun and the moon, so EO may differentiate day from night. And after that, O had a whole bunch of children at once; she called them Sereena, or what are called the Sirin now. When they grew older, they created their own section of the world attached to EO, where they could live more to their liking. however, O still thought that EO should have inhabitants, so she used some of EO's body to create large turtles, she called Terreturta; they swam C's endless oceans, and their backs would become covered in plants that had once only lived in the water, and they became the plains and trees and beautiful gardens, and O would spend much of her time looking at them and tending to them, and she was happy.

Again O had life growing inside of her, but as O's had birthed life after life, it had weakened E, and he was now falling sick. He was slowly shriveling up, and moving became hard for him. O was worried; what would she do if her companion died? She could not bear the thought. But even though she tried to blow life into him, as she tried to reinfuse him with energy, and even though she gave him all her bones, E eventually lost his light. And just when their last children were born, E's time expired, and his energy was released back to O. Their new children were small, they came in a diverse group, not unlike the Sereena, but the loss of E had put a lot of strain on her body and mind, and as a result, her new children were born very weak and small, without form. These would be her last children, she knew. Because now she no longer had E. She used what remained of his body, and gave it to her final children, small as they were, and she put them in the floating gardens of the Terretura on EO, where they would live. And quickly the entirety of EO was inhabited by her siblings and their offspring, and they split into many groups, those who preferred water, those who preferred land, and those who preferred the sky. And even though their lives were short, and their power was weak, and even though they never fully remembered who gave them birth in the beginning, they lived in prosperity on EO, and gave EO a purpose. And EO was happy, and O was happy, and she vowed she would watch over her children until the universe too would lose its flame.