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I am no god (prologue)

I was born in Egypt, around the time all the plagues were killing everyone. My parents were not Israelites, but they weren't necessarily Egyptians either. They worked for the Pharoh's daughter, who had been raising a son until he ran away.

But then I heard my mother talking about how some person named Moses was going to send the spirit of death or an angel of some sort upon us and kill all the children. I was pretty smart since I was two years old, so I ran to my room, climbed on my bed, and went out the window. I ran like there was no tomorrow and, for my parents, there... wasn't.

I never saw them again, but I heard later from the people who found me that the Pharoh had killed my parents for not suffering as everyone else had, or something like that. Shepherds found me and took care of me until I was fourteen. Then, I ran off yet again. when I was around 23, I was at a water well and met a girl named Danae, yes, I dare say that we did get married and indeed had a child named Boreal.

But after that things started getting weird. It had been, oh I don't know, 20, 30 years? -and Danae grew old. my son was married and gone. My wife died, cursing me. And, as I waited to die, I realized I didn't feel old. I went to the market and bought an old used mirror. I looked the same as 40 years before.  I broke the mirror and ran out of the market. I can't be immortal. I barely know what that word means! I screamed for what seemed like years, and, for what it's worth, it probably was. I wanted to destroy the earth and find something to kill me. but only a god can do that, and I am no god.

Sorry, this book is going to be shorter than the others. But what do you think about it? Is it good?