Once a story concludes another begins. The cover to the book, golden and brilliant lays embezzled with jewels bound by lock and key. The story now turned legend turns the pages yellow and rot filled, its edges lay bitten by insects, words turned to dust as mold eats at its letters. No matter how glorious, all stories are destined to wither up and die lost to time as it twists into something unrecognizable. Old gods die and new ones take their place, but what happens when an existing god has a replacement? ____________ Posted on AO3