She was small compared to him. Her skin was clear and as dark as the darkest mud he had seen crossing a great northern fjord. Her frame was two thirds his size. She seemed to just lay asleep, her waist length light green hair flowing over her shoulders. She wore a pure white, strapless dress from her shoulders to halfway down her thighs. Her feet were bare, a golden rope around her waist held a large golden pouch, on her head was a round golden hat with a narrow brim, and resting beside her was a golden watering can that emitted light in a subtle rainbow. As he watched her she began to stir and her emerald green eyes opened with a flutter of her long eye lashes.
“Oh, big brother! You’re here!”
“Big brother?”
“I’m your little sister Genesis. Elohim told me to wait here and sleep until my big brother came to wake me, and here you are!”
Her voice was musical, like the gentle splashes of a waterfall at dawn, and suddenly he knew what he had been missing, a sibling.
She popped to her feet and took his skeletal hand. They began walking out of the cave and as she entered the light, moss and lichen began to spread all around the entrance of the cavern and as they walked further into the light, ferns began to grow. The brighter the sunlight the larger and faster the plants grew and she began to sprinkle her rainbows upon the ground causing massive trees of pine to leap from ground to sky.
Long did they roam Gia skipping, and dancing, as more and more life spread across the land. With the whole of Gia that could support plant life covered, Genesis tipped her pouch over and out poured eggs that promptly hatched into birds. Small animals and insects crawled or leapt from her pouch as well. Then one day Grim and Genesis sat on the edge of a stream making larger animals out of mud, but each one Genesis completed would walk away whereas Grims’ would quickly dry out and collapse into dust.
Then Elohim joined them on the bank of the stream, sitting down right in the thick mud and began sculpting a new animal. It had two legs, and two arms like one of Genesis’ apes, but it was thinner in every proportion. It wasn’t as hairy, it didn’t have thumbs on its feet, and it didn't have a tail either. Its eyes were high up on its head facing forward. Its teeth were both those of a carnivore and of an herbivore, meaning it could eat most anything. Then with a gently blown breath across its face it rose. Elohim named him Adam.
The whole time Elohim was sculpting he was explaining to Grim why his creations always turned to dust. Elohim could feel how saddened Grim was of his fate, and granted him the ability to create one type of life. Grim wandered off alone for a long while then after long contemplation he sat and sculpted out something that like himself was one with darkness yet craved the light. It was no bigger than his hand with a small thin body, large delicate wings, and a pair of fluffy antennae, a Luna Moth.
He has made many a type of moth now, and though his job is that of dread as he ushers the spirits of men and women to the lands beyond our existence, he finds happiness in his own sometimes ostentatious little creations.
