Anuka blinked slowly as she woke, she stifled a yawn and wondered when was the last time she had actually slept, it must have been a few millennia at least, she saw a grey world all around her it wasn't large or anything in fact it seemed completely empty, it felt as if she was standing on the clouds as grey mist swept around her.
It was only then that she noticed a very important detail this world was made of pure genesis energy, one of the primordial energies, even gods would find it extremely excellent for tempering their bodies.
Just as she was about to soak herself in the energy, she heard loud panting and few muffled cries.
She moved through the mist searching for the source of the sound, when she saw the most beautiful woman she had ever seen, even she felt slightly inferior to the beauty with long silver hair and unfathomable silver eyes that seemed able to see through her even though she was a second-grade god she felt completely see-through at the moment, not even Adolin could make her feel so vulnerable, it was then that she realised a problem her cultivation hadn't dropped she was still a god.
Looking at the beauty she could make out similarities between her and Samsara, until now she been worried that she lost the child but now she heaved a breath of relief if this was his mother then he was probably safe here, it was then that she heard the beauty cry out once again, and she noticed two ethereal chains that seemed to both exist and not exist at the same time as they bound the women, the chains were forcing their way into this world through a hole which was slowly closing.
"Would you mind giving me a hand?" asked the beauty, "This space is just lacking a bit of energy, genesis would be for the best, but I suppose astral would be just passable." She asked nonchalantly like it was nothing.
Anuka felt very confused, did this woman think genesis energy would be handed to her so easily, it was a treasure revered by gods, and astral energy was the closest energy to genesis energy it was what gods used to cultivate their bodies. "What happens if I don't help?", Anuka was still a little uncertain this woman resembled Samsara quite a bit but she couldn't be certain and for some reason, she was exhibiting the same behaviour of the chains existing and not existing at the same time.
"Nothing much really," the beauty answered sarcastically, ", I'll just get sucked out of here then my little world here will fall apart and after that, we will both be left to the icy clutches of the void or chaos if that's what you call it, where we will both undergo the ripping torrents that will grind us into nothingness, of course I know how to turn my body ethereal so I'll last until my energy runs out while you'll end up dead permanently, and finally I'll die and be revived again in one of the 33 Neather Heavens, I could go on but you do see my point."
Once again Anuka was floored, how could someone be so nonchalant in such a situation, and also, she said something about reviving and the worst part was the void, this woman spoke of things she could hardly understand in a simple conversation, the void was treacherous and even gods would never venture in for more than a few years.
"Who are you exactly? Are you Samsara's mother?" she asked for a sense of assurance.
"First you jump through a chaotic portal with me then you don't even recognise me and now you're asking if I'm my own mother, of course not.", Samsara cried out as the chains began to tug on him again.
Anuka looked wide-eyed at him realising for the first time that the beauty was, in fact, a man, she couldn't remember the last time she felt so embarrassed, a slab appeared in the mist behind Samsara shaped like some sort of sacrificial altar, she slowly poured in astral energy and only after Samsara cried out for her to move faster did she reluctantly empty out almost her entire astral energy fortune.
"Ridiculous utterly ridiculous, this the definition of idiotic, no imbecilic, the behaviour of a moron…" Anuka continued to hear various synonyms for an idiot as she returned to Samsara's side, just as she was about to ask what the chains were that he was swinging around he asked her a question that puzzled her.
"Do know what kind of idiot uses chaos breakers to bind someone?", seeing the blank face on the blonde beauty, Samsara cursed himself for always knowing more than everyone around him, "These chains are used to bind and stabilise an entire plain, it ensures that the void cannot," he clicked his fingers as he tried to come up with the perfect analogy and suddenly his eyes lit up, "pop, yes that's right pop, so it ensures that the plain does not pop like a balloon with all it's insides spilling into the void slowly returning to nothing."
Anuka was mesmerized by the new information, it was something that she had never heard of before, and if true it would become a major topic of study. "Are you really Samsara?" she asked with uncertainty, he certainly had the right appearance, she wasn't surprised about him looking like an adult or a woman after all gods could change their appearance as they wished they could be male or female, both even young or old it just came down to their preferences.
What truly took her by surprise was how knowledgeable he was, according to Adolin his son was in a death-like state which is why he froze an entire universe and sealed it off with his son inside making it impossible for him to age and decay all in order to preserve his son's life.
This would have made it impossible for him to know anything much less about universal secrets.
"I'm honestly not too sure myself.", his answer left her puzzled, "Although I think that I probably am," he further confused her when a sudden twitch ran through her his entire body and his hand was inches away from her hit Anuka when he got back control of his body.
"Sorry about that," he wore an apologetic smile on his face, "It's different this time," he spoke while tinkering with a few panels on the alter, "Usually I'm a newborn child fresh from the womb, and the child dies before my soul settles in it."
"It tends to feel like wearing a set of slightly baggy clothes, don't get me wrong the quality is usually good it just doesn't feel perfect, but this time it seems to be crafted to perfection it's like wearing a body-tight suit, its different from normal, so the sync is taking a little longer than usual and there are a few side effects." He said hinting about the strange twitch.
"What do you mean?" Anuka was looking at him wide-eyed trying to determine the truth, if someone had taken over her young masters body, she would have to exercise them at all costs.
"I have lived a very long life, much too long a life so much so that I just want it to end, I have a theory that while my body was there frozen in time in that universe, my soul was not, it travelled across the 33 Neather Heavens, well this is my first time being in this one after my birth and there were two lives that were in different plains so 30 Neather heavens would be correct, each time a new life a new body but always cursed."
"But now I can feel it a perfect sync between my soul and body, this is what any ordinary person would feel like in their original body."
"Then can you tell me how old you are?" asked Anuka the weariness in her seemed to be gone but she just wanted to have some form of confirmation.
"I haven't lived a life that allowed me the luxury of keeping count, I don't know really, 50 trillion maybe a hundred possibly more.", she kept a careful watch on his eyes, he tried not to meet her eyes but every time she looked in them, she could make out traces of pain, sorrow and above all loneliness.
"In all, that time did you ever have a family or friends or a companion?" she was looking for something, something concrete to reassure her at this point she didn't want to make a mistake with her lord's son, while his eyes told no lie she still needed something undeniable about him, the only problem was she didn't actually know him.
Samsara could make out that look in her eyes of one who was convinced but just lacked the most important evidence, she needed proof