In Hindsight

Patience

From the Universe came Creation and Destruction, equal and opposite, an eternal battle that left no room for the Universe's love.

Yet the Universe was patient, and breathed on the void and was void and existed and did not exist.

And from Creation came light, and the stars, and the planets, and the power to connect.

And from Destruction came darkness, and space, and fire, and wastelands of dirt and ice, and the power to think.

And they battled, and they fought, and they tore each other apart, ripping gaping holes in the Universe, filling its embrace with beauty and chaos and emptiness and fullness of space and time.

And the Universe was patient.

Are you listening?

My legs hurt. Can I sit down?

May you sit down.

May I sit down?

No. Stand up straight and pay attention. This is important.

❖✩✩✩❖

Fzzt.

Tango blinked. His redstone line had suddenly lost power. He frowned in confusion and straightened, joints cracking from spending so long hunched over his work.

Kelpy_Creates: Uh oh

riffraf: ??

crisismoth: uhm

Shrimplistic: It's a sign

RUN1SS: bustline is down

Chikngriplet: nya

3rror403: oh-

riffraf: tommy???

Nexuko2: ???

Chat began scattering around, poking around the redstone to try to figure out what was wrong.

Tango stretched and smiled tiredly at them. "Oh boy. Let's go check the bustline and figure out what happened, yeah?"

Chat gathered around his ankles as he traced his path back along his redstone line. As he got closer, he saw Tommy sitting next to the main bustline, fiddling with some purple wool.

"Um. . ." Tango stared at Tommy, then looked at the bustline. A block of wool was missing.

potatoechips: Tommy!!!!!!

lily_Kalec: ?

KingPodo: Did he break it??

pearlflavoured: askdjdkflskjl

Bugs_Lee22: guys its ok

MidnightStarlight: hm

Shrimplistic: welp

Bugs_Lee22: he got hungry

LinMelon30: Tommy KEKW

"Hey, buddy!" Tango said awkwardly as he approached. "Whatcha doin'?"

Tommy glanced up, expression dark, then turned back to the wool in his hands. "I needed more wool."

Tango tilted his head. "Um. . . okay, well I'm perfectly happy to give you some wool, just don't take it from my redstone lines, yeah?"

Tommy huffed and hunched his shoulders a little. "Didn't know you were using it."

"I'm using. . . all of it." Tango's eyebrows knit together. "This is the main bustline, remember? So the purple line signals if the game is—"