Act 1

Before He made man, his work was not always perfect.

Yet He was a perfectionist, progressing through trial and error.

He created new beings based on models of previous beings.

Forming, shaping and perfecting.

It took time.

Time that none of his creatures withstood.

Because they were mere creations.

Yet He wasn’t always in control of the universe

He had to work with what was already there.

Nature has her own nature.

Capricious, changing, multi-faceted.

He had to work with Her

All the beings He created had to survive in Nature’s world

And Nature changed her ways a lot.

Sometimes quickly, sometimes not for a very long time. 

And the changes were epic and minuscule

When she was cold, the frost bit all in sight.

When she was in a temper, fire razed everything.

There are times when she was deadly calm and still.

And there are times when everything roiled and shifted almost endlessly.

His creatures had to be refined over the time that Nature reigned.

An appendage grew here, multiplied thrice, reduced or disappeared entirely as time went by.

Time that none of His creatures fully understood nor appreciated.

Because none lived long enough to survive time.

He toiled on. Tirelessly perfecting and experimenting.

Some creations wreaked wonders and flourished.

Happily ensconced in Nature’s bosom.

While others died natural deaths and disappeared entirely.

They could not live with Nature’s ways.

Then some of His creatures grew larger, more dominant.

They became vicious and threatened all other creatures.

This upset Nature for she liked seeing and feeling the variety of beings.

Variety was more interesting and never boring, like her personality.

She did not like monotony – not in her inner nor outer landscape.

No creatures of a single kind roaming about would do for her.

Yet she witnessed the large beings lording over the rest.

Her wrath grew, erupted and caused rocks of fire to shake everything.

And cleanse the landscape of monotony.

He seeing his creatures gone because of her wrath had to work again.

He promised not to make them so huge anymore.

No one kind will loom over others anymore.

It does no good to upset Nature.

He learned his lesson.