Chapter 17 - Revelations

Before Venus, who was supposed to be dead, a void stretched out.

No, she was indeed dead.

Yet, she was here, at this mysterious place.

She became self-aware and started to contemplate the vast darkness that lay around her eyes.

There was no sense of direction in this place, for it was beyond darkness.

There was no sense of sound, for it had none.

There was no sense of time, for it had none.

It was a void that lacked even what one would consider a void.

This was not the void between worlds. This was...different.

Venus, who had her knees on the ground, questioned herself.

"Where am I?"

Then, in front of her, two entities manifested.

They were both a crow and a turtle.

"𝓡𝓪𝓲𝓼𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼𝓮𝓵𝓯, 𝓮𝓽𝓱𝓮𝓻𝓲𝓪𝓷, 𝓯𝓸𝓻 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓼𝓽𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝓼𝓹𝓮𝓪𝓴 𝓲𝓷 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓮𝓼𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓸𝓯 G̸̛̱̬̝̘̤͚̭͎̳̮͐́̒́̓̄̂̀̓̈͘͝O̷̫̫͈̎̅̎̚D̸̛̛̙̤͓͓̒̏́̓͊̅̉̚H̸̨̫̱͇͉̹̾̉͆͘Ö̵̦̫͓͓̯̼̳͔̭̠̪͚͍́̾̃̂̂͒̎̚̚ͅǪ̷̢̨͔̞̤̳͍̼̜̞̣̤͑͂̌̐̐̋̉͗̐̽̉̿̈́͑͠D̵̛͕̮̰̠͌̈́̈́̔͂̂̓͝."

"ץ๏ย, ฬђ๏ ђคร ๓єՇ ค Շгคﻮเς ๔є๓เรє, ภ๏ฬ ๓єєՇ Ŧคςє Շ๏ Ŧคςє ฬเՇђ ฬђคՇ เร คภ๔ ฬђคՇ เรภ'Շ, ๏г๔єг คภ๔ ςђค๏ร, ɭเŦє คภ๔ ๔єคՇђ. ץ๏ย, ฬђ๏ ђคร гєคςђє๔ Շђє єภ๔ ๏Ŧ Շђє ɭเภє. ๒єςคยรє ץ๏ยг ŦคՇє ђค๔ ๒єєภ ๔єรเﻮภє๔ ฬเՇђ Շђเร Ş̶̨̱̞͎͖͎͒͋H̶̢̧̱̬͈̘̝̥͒͊̃͗̃̓͊̆̌͑̎͋͂̚A̶̖̳͓̙̖̖͖̭͋͋P̸̛͍͓̥͚̂̿̍̀̽́͐͛́́̚͠E̷̝͊̊̉̆̃̂͌͂̽̚̕͝."

"𝓝𝓞𝓦, 𝓦𝓔 𝓐𝓡𝓔 𝓣𝓐𝓚𝓘𝓝𝓖 𝓘𝓣 𝓑𝓐𝓒𝓚."

"Wrong.", proclaimed Venus.

"I shall be the only one with the right to decide my own life and death. Not any of you."

"𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓻𝔂𝓽𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓽𝓱𝓾𝓼 𝓯𝓪𝓻, 𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓵𝓾𝓭𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓬𝓸𝓷𝓺𝓾𝓮𝓼𝓽, 𝔀𝓪𝓼 𝓭𝓾𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓶𝓪𝓴𝓲𝓷𝓰. 𝓦𝓮, 𝔀𝓱𝓸 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓫𝓮𝓮𝓷 𝔀𝓪𝓽𝓬𝓱𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓸𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓬𝓻𝓮𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓻 𝓼𝓲𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓲𝓽𝓼 𝓭𝓪𝔀𝓷."

"And I, Venus Hekatonreis, deny such development. You shall have no dominion over me. Not anymore. Thus, I declare that my time is not yet done."

"Vêr¥ Ðårïñg ð£ å mðr†ål"

"𝓘𝓷 𝓼𝓾𝓬𝓱 𝓬𝓪𝓼𝓮, 𝔀𝓱𝓪𝓽 𝓭𝓸 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓽𝓸 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓿𝓮 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓲𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓷𝓬𝓮 𝓯𝓻𝓸𝓶 𝓾𝓼?"

"I have a proposal."

And then the three of them decided to play a game of trickery.

A game that would decide the fate of a lonely etherian and her right over it.

A game in which she won.

She was to be no more tied to any law or causality.

The lonely etherian would trump over logic and make her own.

The truth of her own new [SHAPE].