Ouranos watched Gaia closely. He knew it was because of her that his elements existed. They needed her heat, her core. It’s what kept his elements from either condensing into Pontos’s sea or disappearing into the void.
He didn’t like it.
Why should he need anything? He was strong and powerful. He had stopped Khaos when the others were powerless against him.
Although, he wasn’t exactly sure why he could stop Khaos and the others couldn’t. And why they needed to stop Khaos at all. Ouranos had kind of missed that part. He’d arrived in the middle of some disagreement. Soon after his arrival everyone sorted out differences and went their separate ways.
But it was clear some of them still feared Khaos.
At least, Gaia did.
Erebos and Nyx seemed to get along just fine with the void and Khaos’s work. But Nyx liked Gaia and her earth and largely remained close to her.
Ouranos would have chosen otherwise if he could. The earth was all crusty and barren. There was nothing it really had to offer other than its warmth.
“I pity you,” Khaos said as he moved about the void.
Ouranos tried to ignore him. Khaos mostly kept to other parts of the void, but occasionally he would pass through and share his thoughts and opinions of the others.
“You cannot move about freely,” Khaos said. “You are stuck looking down at Gaia’s ugly earth. And look. She and Pontos have made more ugly things to fill the seas. How dreadful.”
Poor Pontos was in a similar situation as Ouranos. His elements depended on Gaia too. Though, in Ouranos’s mind, Pontos was more pathetic. He had less control over his elements. He had let his water flow all over Gaia. He could tell it annoyed her. It would have annoyed him too to have someone’s elements completely surrounding him like that. It provided no space, no way to breathe.
It felt suffocating just to watch.
And then together they had created Nereos. That creation process had been uncomfortable for everyone. He had tried to ignore what they were doing, but there wasn’t much else going on. The result was good in the end, though. The seas were organized under Nereos’s care, and Gaia regained more control over her earth.
But she was somehow still unhappy.
Ouranos could see it.
Not that he cared all that much. He preferred to keep to himself.
“Gaia is so messy,” Khaos said, passing by again. “She still has not figured out how to make her earth more than a big ball of hot crust. I do not know how you can stand being so close to it.”
Ouranos didn’t have a choice.
He did try to keep as far away as he could. He didn’t touch Gaia, but stayed close enough for his elements.
Ouranos noticed that more of his elements were created when Aether and Hemera were shining directly over the seas. He began following them, collecting elements behind them. His heavens began to expand, which he liked, but they also started to inch closer to Gaia, which he didn’t like.
“Are you afraid of her?” Aether asked.
Ouranos gathered up a few more stray heavens.
“She seems messy,” Ouranos said. “And it seems better that I do not touch her. She already has to deal with Pontos.”
“It’s true,” Aether agreed. “She can’t seem to get away from him.”
“And I cannot get away from her,” Ouranos said, more to himself.
“Do you wish you could? Don’t you like her?” Aether asked.
Ouranos thought for a moment, looking down as the light played on the water, but revealed the ugliness of the earth.
“The earth is ugly,” Ouranos shrugged. “And it would be nice to be able to go wherever I wished. More like Khaos. He can go anywhere. He is free. He’s not limited by what his elements need. He needs nothing.”
“Ah, but he does need something, just like we all do,” Aether said. “He is irritated and unsettled by the rest of us. He is just as unhappy that his void is not perfect as you are unhappy that your elements need the earth. He is not as free as you think.”
Ouranos hadn’t thought of that.
Khaos passed by again, avoiding Aether and Hemera. Ouranos noted for the first time the dark look on his face. He seemed to be just as dissatisfied with the state of things as Ouranos was.
Maybe even more so.
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