Serne responds after a moment, “It was a joke, I don’t actually think you’re old.”

  Oh.

  I should have gotten that.

  He continues after a moment, “well, I don’t think you’re old for whatever you actually are.”

  What does that mean? Does he think that I’m very very old but am young for a god?

  Probably, I think I would think the same thing.

  If a god has a long lifespan, they would take more time to learn of valuable things, as they are in no hurry.

  But me? Maybe if I was just a god originally I would have been like that, but I have my past life.

  Also Asters life, but I’ve sorta partitioned that part of me away to do whatever kids do.

  I ask him, “what do you mean?”, which prompts the first part of an answer.

  “Well, you seem young, but don’t age, like at all. And well… never mind, I’m busy.”

  He suddenly hangs up.

  Did he have something else that he was doing right now?

  Probably.

  I’ll bother him ter, maybe check on him before calling him.

  Maybe I’ll work on my city now, and ask for advice ter.

  This city while strange is still kind of mundane, doesn’t defy logic that much.

  I know!

  What if I make my city fly?

  I spent the next few minutes messing with how my city works, basically I made it fly and shift while it moves.

  It doesn’t just shift the entrances and exits so that someone can’t leave or is brought to a specific point, walls move and stairs turn.

  What are stairs upwards one moment go downward the next, tripping you or throwing you off.

  It’s honestly pretty trippy, even with it being my city, I keep getting lost.

  Oh well, I can still always use my outside view and teleport.

  I also added some buildings, and more pnts.

  I made a little fake ecosystem.

  It has real pnts and animals, but they don’t need to do anything to persist.

  This leads to another idea I had.

  You know how some pnets spin very very slowly?

  Well since all of my pnts and animals are very durable, I could make pnts and animals that span a whole world.

  I just have to figure out a way to keep control of them while allowing evolution to take its course.

  I could do the same thing I did with my collective and put myself in every living being I make.

  That would be fun, I could be an entire pnet!

  I could put myself in the dirt too maybe, as micro-organisms.

  I would custom work on everything.

  Everything will be very durable, but I won’t project immortality on the life I make.

  Even the bodies I made are quite hard to kill, and that is only after making them and not adding any extras.

  This probably wouldn’t work if I was making normal life, it’s too fragile.

  But this?

  It’s perfect.

  I want to take over a pnet, but how do I figure out which ones have a slow spin?

  I guess I could just choose one and stop the spin If I notice a shorter day.

  Okay, time to get to work.

  I make a bunch more life, all soulless again, but I put myself in it.

  I actually split a lot of my collective members to fill these new ones, it’s a lot easier this way.

  Apparently I still don’t have enough of myself to fill these all.

  Well, I can fill the rest a little.

  Anyway, after filling most of them with my mind, I find this feels weirder than before.

  Being a pnt feels very weird.

  I’m stationary and don’t feel time but yet I do?

  Maybe it’s just my pnts in particur that feel that way.

  Anyway, I noticed a problem.

  All of my new lifeforms aren’t able to be broken, so no one could survive on this pnet!

  If I bring any normal people here, they would die of starvation!

  Whatever, a problem for ter.

  I want to try something.

  I want to see if I can be in inanimate objects.

  Well, here goes.

  I put myself in a rock, and find myself nowhere.

  I guess this makes sense, rocks have no sensory organs.

  They aren’t alive.

  Does this mean if I want to be a building it would have to be alive?

  Or maybe a robot would work?

  Would tech which has movable parts be fine?

  Maybe…

  But what if the robot takes control of me!

  Just kidding, I’m not so stupid as to think a machine will so easily take control of me.

  I make a mechanical body with cameras and other sensors.

  I put myself in it, and find I feel weird.

  It has cameras yes, but there is no function or anything putting them together to make a 3d space!

  This body has no depth perception, and I can’t even move the body well.

  It moves, but twitches as if I only had a little bit of my mind in it instead of a significant portion.

  This obviously needs work, but it seems I could control the pnet if I made it mechanical.

  Anyway, I think I’m gonna partition another me.

  This me’s purpose?

  To work on this project, filling the pnet with life and then taking over the inside.

  I split my current self in half, and feel weird.

  It’s like when I first made the collective, but now I’m two.

  Ughh.

  No, I want these me’s to be one.

  I guess I could make a new me out of the collective.

  I grab a bunch of pieces of me and start sticking them together.

  A new me!

  This feels weird being near myself again.

  Being so close causes us to bleed into eachother.

  This is not what I wanted to happen, but it’s not harmful.

  It seems both me’s have the same memories.

  Makes sense, haven’t partitioned this one fully.

  Wait, if I partition one of me and they get too powerful could they take over me?

  I mean, they are me… but still!

  Maybe I test by making a me that’s less rge.

  I tell myself, try to take over me.

  We combine, and I feel the same.

  I tell the other me to combine with this piece of me and then uncombine.

  When this happens, we bleed and become one again.

  Damn, my collective did a lot.

  It feels cold being apart from myself again.

  Partitioning feels cold.

  But it seems I retain myself no matter what.

  This was kind of a strange irrational fear, all of me is the same or at least one.

  No reason for me to go against myself.

  Phew.

  Now time to work on the pnet and check on Aster both at once.