Perfidia - Can create entire worlds

Finally, Jay spoke. "I want to go to a fantasy world."

Because she awaited eagerly—too eagerly—his response, upon hearing it and upon not immediately sorting it into one of the possibilities she expected from him, she repeated his last three words like a robot and felt foolish for doing so.

"Yes. A fantasy world. Swords and magic and crap like that." He hissed it, halfway under his breath, like he was loath to say it.

His explanation made everything click; it took Perfidia effort not to display her relief. A fantasy world. Swords and magic! After all his gruff statements about war and hunger and being sick of the world. She could laugh. Laugh in his stupid, human face. Here she thought he was going to ask something impossible.

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"Understandable—perfectly understandable," Perfidia said. "It's true, mathematically you know. Thanks to the amount of people nowadays, it takes a person with much more Humanity to create a meaningful impact. Pretty unfair. So how's this. I put you in this fantasy world, make you king or something—"

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"One month from now is December 20." She tapped the contract on the desk, already open to the page about payment, and the little black letters shuffled around to form a few amendments. "Creating a whole new world is a pretty significant undertaking, so I'm still gonna need three-quarters of your Humanity up front. The rest you can pay on December 20, assuming you're satisfied with the world I've given you."

"Liar."

At this point, she didn't want to even ask. But she did. "What do you mean?"

"You said how much a wish costs depends on how much it changes this world."

"And I'll be creating an entire world. That's a big change."

"It doesn't change this world at all. And if this new world counted the same as our world, no one person's humanity could pay for it. That's what you said."

Why bother arguing. It would only destroy her more utterly. She tapped the contract again, rearranged the words again—this time demanding only ten percent of his Humanity up front—and continued, explaining the rest of the contract in an empty tone, eventually handing it over for him to peruse at leisure, which he did.

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[1] Spirit of Eternal Negation