"Enkidu, what are you doing?"
Ananu ignored the horrified looks of others and landed directly from the sky, landing next to Enkidu. He looked at the thing in Enkidu's hand with a bit of curiosity.
Enkidu stood up, his hands still muddy, an interested look on his face.
"Ananu, look at this."
He opened his hand and showed Ananu what he had in his hand.
It was a little clay figurine.
"Are you following the example of God Enki in creating humans?"
Ananu widened his eyes and became interested.
The first human beings were kneaded out of clay by Enki and Mamie.
Enkidu smiled and shook his head: "This is just a pottery shop. The boss here shapes the pottery shape out of clay and then burns it in the fire."
"Oh! That's it." Ananu nodded matter-of-factly and sat next to Enkidu, "Can I try?"
He picked up a piece of wet mud, and instead of squeezing it, he began to manipulate the mud according to his own will.
The mud transformed into various forms like dancing in Ananu's hands.
"this......"
A young child spotted the dancing mud in Ananu's hand and came over with shining eyes.
"Brother, what is this?"
"This? It's just mud." Ananu said this without any awareness that he was also mud.
"Ananu." Enkidu shrugged at Ananu and stretched out his hand.
Ananu naturally understood what Enkidu was thinking.
The two of them put their hands together with the mud in their hands, and let the mud shape them according to their wishes.
When they slowly opened their hands, what appeared was——
A tiny toddler.
The child's eyes widened in disbelief.
"Here, I'll give this to you."
With a gentle smile on his face, Enkidu placed the small child that he and Ananu had pinched together into the hands of the larger child.
"Is this really okay?" The child was a little expectant and a little scared, and his outstretched hand looked a little nervous.
"Just take it." Ananu took the clay figurine from Enkidu's hand and put it directly into the child's hand.
"Thank you two big brothers... or big sister?" The child thanked Ananu and Enkidu excitedly, but looking at their appearance, he looked a little confused.
She looks like a woman, but has no breasts...
Ananu and Enki both looked at each other.
"I am the eldest brother." Ananu transformed himself into a muscular and resolute face.
"I am the big sister." Enkidu gave himself plump curves and a more feminine face than Shamhat himself.
child:......?
"Thank you, thank you, big brother and big sister..." Although he felt something was strange, he still thanked him honestly...
The owner of the pottery shop stood behind the two men and dared not speak.
These two items have seriously affected his business... There are quite a few onlookers around his store.
Enkidu clapped his hands, and the remaining mud fell down. He stood up and asked Ananu: "Why did you come to me? Didn't you say you were going to the city for a stroll?"
"I saw something strange." Ananu scratched his head.
It was as if mud and dirt didn't touch them at all, and they could avoid even a trace of dust if they wanted to.
"I'm sorry, boss, thank you for providing us with some mud." Enkidu said, inserting one of his fingers into the mud, stirring slowly, and after a while, another boss appeared. clay figurine.
"It's okay, as long as you two adults are happy..." The boss's attention was now on the clay figure in Enkidu's hand.
"This is my thank you." Enkidu nodded and placed the clay figure in the boss's hand.
Both he and Ananu are now back to their original selves.
The two left the pottery shop and went to a place where they could chat alone, leaving the boss alone with his clay figurine and touching his chin.
This thing... feels like it might be a good sell?
...
"King Gilgamesh is still waging war." Ananu said to Enkidu as he walked, "I found a military camp for training new recruits in the south corner of Uruk. No wonder the streets of Uruk You can’t even see young men.”
"What do you want to do?" Enkidu was curious.
He didn't think Ananu would feel sad and painful about human death, because he didn't either.
What the gods gave them and what they themselves understood did not include pity and pity for strangers. They might feel sad for the death of someone close to them, but if someone they were unfamiliar with died, their The attitude is likely to be:
Oh, I got it, so what?
What they care about is not the "individual" but the "whole".
After all... they weren't human, and the feelings they had were only for each other... and maybe Humbaba, but that was it.
Humbaba…
Ananu and Enki were both thinking the same thing. They both thought about this problem involuntarily and fell into silence for a while.
"I... at least have to ask." After hesitating, Ananu shook his head, "This is the main reason why those gods accused Gilgamesh, although we have decided not to do anything for the time being. , but you still have to ask.”
"If his answer doesn't satisfy me, we'll beat him up."
Ananu raised his fist.
The source of his statement is mainly self-confidence.
If Enkidu alone uses his power to suppress divinity, he can perfectly suppress Gilgamesh. If Ananu comes together...
They can first discuss where Gilgamesh will be buried tomorrow.
"...Isn't it a little too hasty?" Enkidu looked worried.
"After all, we still have too little time to live here, and we don't know why Gilgamesh wants to start a war."
"That's why I wanted to ask." Ananu said matter-of-factly.
Enkidu smiled helplessly: "Okay, when? I'll be with you."
"Siduli said it'll be fine in the evening. Let's walk around the city again."
Ananu took Enkidu's hand and walked forward along the street.
...
Fir forest.
When Ananu left, the force of a natural disaster brought huge destruction to this place.
An obviously destroyed path appeared in the forest. Trees fell down and the soil was churned. It was estimated that the place would not be able to recover within a few decades.
And in the middle of this natural ruin, there is a huge pothole.
The pit was bottomless. This was where Ananu stayed at the beginning. When he left, this place also suffered the most serious damage.
And now, at the bottom of this pit...
A small pure white flower bloomed.
