Alexander and I went swimming in the Spirit River. Energy and souls alike drifted by as we floated along, watching the turning of the Realms and traversing the entirety of the river. We started in the Heaven Realm.

Much of the time we spent in comfortable silence. We watched as spirits of all kinds manipulated the energy already existing in the land itself or was produced by souls – many of whom didn't even notice our presence – twisting it and putting it to work, following tributaries and creeks splitting off from the main River. We observed dark spirits, small things, not in service to the Shadow, as they milled about a village of elementals, feeding off of the negative emotions they produced, even as other spirits redirected or fed off of the more benign energies.

Alexander pointed out a herd of spirit beasts as we drifted by, nearing the edge of the Heaven Realm and the barrier between realms. I drifted over to watch them with him. It was a herd of magical elk – moss hung from their fur and antlers, earth-attuned qi coursing through their veins. The leader was a majestic creature, with large, fourteen point antlers that had multicolored gems embedded into the bone. It glanced up at us as we passed, Alexander flashing his aura once to make himself known, and nodded his respect even if he couldn't see us. He was an old, wise beast. A King amongst his kind, in spirit alone.

"The spirit beasts could use a better guiding force." Alexander said. "Actually, let me rephrase that – they could use a more suitable guiding hand. They are too easily manipulated."

I nodded my agreement. "That is an oversight on my part. I expected more souls like that one to have appeared amongst the beasts by now, or at least, quicker than they have been." I indicated the bull elk as I said this; for its soul was wise and strong, indeed. There had been nothing that could twist and incentivize a beast to attack in great hordes the way the spirit beasts did, back in my old universe. I had not been expecting many of them to be so easily manipulated here…though part of the problem, I felt, was also the sapient spirit beasts and their ability to fairly easily direct the less intelligent ones.

"I would not call it an oversight, simply unexpected." Alexander reasoned. "I have considered asking Kei to aid me in this, however. It might do her some good to have some responsibility."

"You should tell her that." I told him. "I know she would love to spend more time with her Uncle Alexander."

And we drifted along, simply enjoying the sights and life. Of all my children, Alexander was the easiest to do this with. Elvira and Keilan were too busy in their minds, Reika too busy in her heart. Only Alexander could consistently still himself enough to appreciate the Realms in a quiet, thoughtful way. It was an important thing to do, in my opinion. There was a beauty in stillness of body and soul, of simply letting the noise of creation wash over you.

Spirits began to truly circle us as I stopped hiding the entirety of my presence, my comfortable aura drawing them toward us as they danced about in the river like little faeries. Alexander collected a little water spirit, an amused rumble echoing through him as it danced and played, only to flit away as we neared the barrier between realms. Most of the spirits stayed behind as we flowed through the greyish barrier of energy, a few souls entering the cycle of reincarnation, or spirits pushing energy along the river sticking through it.

I hardly noticed the barrier anymore, in fact it couldn't even be called a barrier at all to me, but weaker beings had trouble crossing the chaotic meeting place of the Realms. Nothing grew in this dense, energetic space, and though spirits and souls could fairly easily cross it with the aid of the river, in other places or for physical material it was…difficult, to say the least.

Once in the physical realm, we drifted away from Pangaea. Individual streams in the spirit realm, tributaries and creeks, flowed to and from the myriad planets outside of the main hub of activity in the realm. Light flowed to and from the nigh-on a hundred suns in the Realm, circling Pangaea, and into each of the individual planets therein. Gas giants spun happily, nebulas swirled, and asteroids and comets hurtled through space. Mortals pranced about on habitable planets, some even containing only Avians, Fae, Elementals, or Karae, while darker spirits congregated on the non-habitable planets. Positive energy was more uncomfortable for them, so they tended to come together on darker, less energetically powerful planets, like Venus would have been.

It was here we paused for a bit, and I showed Alexander how to make a sun. Stardust swirled together to ignite in my palm as I explained the process in detail, urging Alexander to do the same – he did not, of course, but that was to be expected. He would practice the method in his own time, in his own way, and would only show me once he had perfected it. We did, however, spend some time creating a few planets; I even caused a meteor filled with the stuff of life to crash onto one of the barren rocks, to jumpstart a more natural, non-enhanced evolution of life. There would have to be a more casual method of spreading life than me taking time out of my day to spread it to every sustainable planet, eventually.

"The Realms are cramped," Alexander murmured, staring at the stardust that pervaded the edges of the Physical Realm. "I can feel it in my bones. There are too many powerful beings, in too small a space. What else do you plan to do, besides create the Star?" I smiled and clasped my hands behind my back, watching the accelerated process of a solar system forming come into being before me.

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