Coeus and the Twins, Phoebe and Krios (opening)

Chapter 4: Gaia-The Tree of Life

“Again, Phoebe came to the desired embrace of Coeus.”

                                                                                             (Theogony, 404)

Phoebe and Krios, twins, were alike in many way…but one, Phoebe was much bigger, a massive structure giving safety and security to the smaller Krios, and what made it work, what kept Phoebe’s greater gravity pull from devouring Krios was the equally massive Coeus, the love of their life, the bonded partner and husband to them both. With his presence, Krios was able to find a safe orbit, one that allowed him much more distance from his loving sisters embrace, but with this extra space, this freedom from the exertion of her gravity, there also came a bit of disorder to their orbit, as every once in a while a chaotic burst of inertia would send any one of the three of them on an unexpected elliptical orbit, sweeping them out to traipse about Ouranos, far away from the other two. Once released from the others gravity pull, there was no telling how long before they would see one another again. The good thing about this little journey was the fact that they would encounter other Titans lost in this unforgiving Sea of Misery, not to mention all the food he might find along the way. One of Krios’ favorite things was finding and consuming the rare heavy elemental materials he found naturally out here in the open. He would eat stuff like Helium (lots and lots of Helium…yuck!) and Nitrogen but he was especially fond of the metals whenever he could find them like lithium and sodium, but Iron was his delicacy and he sought it like nothing else in the universe!

Ouranos, the Antimatter equivalent to what they considered their own ‘normal’ matter, had the consistency of play dough, shaped like a loaf of bread and increasingly thinning and elongating at a steady pace. The Titans were like a dozen marbles of differing size and color strewn about this massive structure of pure blackness, stuck in it like ants in molasses (with two of course finding freedom!). Krios always complained that it seemed when he was tossed away from the other two his journey tended to last a lot longer than the when the others took their walk-about, but they demurred, saying it was his bored imagination, they were all gone an equal amount of time, which, typically, frustrated him to no end. So it was that Krios began to track and observe everyone’s movements, all the Titans, from their travels throughout Ouranos, to the spinning of their structures, Krios watched everything!

Story continued on Kindle Vella…

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