Every Hero Deserves a Blowjob [A Paranormal Romance]

Chapter 17

"How very convenient."

"But..."

Of course, there was a but. There was always a but. Even so, she was on edge to hear it. "But?"

"The Far-Eastern deities come back with a blank slate. Children, essentially, with no memories of their previous iterations."

"Oh, piss off."

They watched her, waiting for it to sink it. It wouldn't. This wasn't what she wanted to hear. She wanted to grieve her loss. Not be told that Tera would come back as a child with no idea who she was.

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Ehma

The miniature versions of her subconscious were beyond embarrassing. More to the point, nothing about her plans had changed. And yet here she found herself, sucked inward and him right along with her.

The Void and the Goddess wanted to talk. Wanted to see for themselves. If possible, she would have liked very much to kick both off into the vastness of space. Karma seemed equally annoyed as they took turns explaining and interrogating, but at least that part was entertaining.

"So, what, you think that's really okay? For her to keep living in solitude? Like that's the only way?"

"See. Just like I said. He's not that bad," the version of her with blue streaking through her hair said to the miniature shadow before turning to Karma. "Though I'm not really sure you have room to be making such an assumption after only hearing the synopsis."

After ordering Karma to sit by the shadowy miniature, the two had proceeded to unload the sprawling sequence of events. What surprised her most was how easily he seemed to accept it all. She supposed that was what happened when you had no other option but to accept.

She was thankful for that. It made her feel just a little less crazy. Although, how sane could one really feel watching a man argue with the fractured pieces of one's soul.

"I was actually quite happy just observing," she said to take a little tension out of the conversation.

"Really?" He didn't sound convinced. "So then, why even choose to become a mortal in the first place?"

"I don't know. I was bored, I guess." That wasn't the truth. She knew it wasn't, but he didn't. She only hoped the two deviants wouldn't blow her story to smithereens.

"Yes. You see, we were bored. So very bored off in that lonely, lonely corridor. Watching all Twelvius' Guardians go on adventures and fall in love—"

Her shadow miniature came in with the save, covering the mouth of the more loose-lipped one. "Stupid mortal. No one asked for your damn opinion."

"Then why the hell am I here?"

"Why? I'll tell you why! You see this girl, and this girl, and this girl. We're gonna be whole again, you got that? And you? You're goin' back to your little podunk universe where you belong. We don't need you. We don't need anybody."

Is that what this is about? Ehma's eyes darted between the man arguing with little Void woman. Her plans hadn't changed. Now that Selah's seed was planted, she could go back to the 13th Dimension and save Ryoko and Aria.

All she had to do was take the remaining seeds from the Void Guardians hidden in her windows, the last of her sealed divinity. The Void would disappear, and the human part of her would cease to exist. All that would remain would be the version of her streaked in blue. The version before the split, before the reincarnation.