Stars streaked past as the thin woman screamed in fear and agony. Her disguise burned away, revealing blue skin and elongated form. Her grip on me tightened, but she was no longer trying to strangle the life from my body. She desperately clung to me as we fell through eternity. The void tore at her, ripping away her clothes as easily as the makeup and prosthesis that had made up her face. We were falling through space and time...

No, I was falling. She was being ripped apart.

Terror-filled eyes stared into mine, full of shock and sprinkled with awe.

"A'Robt said you were an imposter!" Each word tore from her mouth, snatching chunks of blue flesh with it until she shouted from a bloody mess. "You are her, you are the goddess." Teeth and gum followed. "Please, forgive m-"

The ripping and burning winds decapitated the thin woman and her suddenly limp body fell from me to be lost in the void of stars and eons. I couldn't speak, I could barely breathe. It was the most gruesome thing I'd ever seen. The look on her face burned itself into my memory. Reverence and resignation. The smell of her burning flesh lingered in my nostrils as celestial bodies swept across my peripheral vision.

My body burned with an inner fire, consuming my clothes yet leaving my skin and hair unscathed. Fear of the hungry eternities nipped at the edges of my conscious thought, but I focused on my resilience. The thin woman had been destroyed, but I still remained. She'd called me a goddess. I didn't feel like a deity, I felt like a party of the stars, a part of the tapestry of space. I felt like the eternities and I were one and the same.

I killed the thin woman.

The whipping space killed the thin woman.

We killed the thin woman.

Brown skin glowing in a nimbus of starlight, I fell through the cosmos. Abruptly a familiar golden structure on the coastal edge of a sprawling city came into view as I fell towards the earth like a meteor. Through the clouds, through a broken stained glass mural, I hit the stone stage with thunderous impact.