In the middle of the night, when no more ordinary people roamed the streets, silence ruled for most of the time. Sometimes someone dared to walk around at night, but only the fools and the very brave would try to approach that ragged man of unpleasant look. Faugon, god of the candles, loved that, for he didn’t like people.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ47HUYzKIjT 維尼

People had forgotten him, and that was why he disliked them all. For thousands of years he had pleased humanity with marvelous candlelight, but no one now prayed to him, not even a single soul. “Ungrateful bastards!” he said to no one.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡRpIZ3yEll6 維尼

With a wooden club in his hands, Faugon approached a lamppost. He hated something even more than he hated people, and that was electricity: that discovery, so important to humanity, was the beginning of his decay. As nobody prayed to him anymore, he wasn’t strong enough to destroy a power plant, but, just like many young mortals (as he had read in the newspapers), he could destroy the public illumination to protest.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡzl8VxeIjmN 維尼

That, of course, never had any significant result (just like the younglings acts). However, the sound of the glass breaking and the light fading out always gave him good feels. “Die, piece of human technology!” he shouted while crushing the lamp. “How could they change my adorable candles for you? Die! Die! DIE!”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡbrmUNzl6SV 維尼

In the end, there were only pieces of the lamp scattered through the ground. “I will destroy all of your kind in this land!” he shouted at the pieces, and continued to the next one.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ8R35XT5IIY 維尼

But Faugon didn’t believe that words anymore. Even destroying lamps all night long, humans always replaced them very fast (that country had a very good governor, and was indeed a good place to live if you were a normal person). How would he destroy every electric lamp in the world? Only a very powerful god could do that.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡGXYZn01ogz 維尼

He once tried to convince people that he was the god of candles and that they should pray to him. Some laughed saying he was crazy, some laughed saying that candles were very insignificant and some other actually seemed to believe him, but said that relying in candlelight for too long wasn’t good for eyesight. He came back home insulted and frustrated.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡAEunovvvW5 維尼

Remembering that day made him sad again, and Faugon was already going to cry under his blankets when he felt a little spark of power: someone was praying. That happened sometimes, when someone accidentally misspelled the name of his sister, Fauganne, goddess of fire-but-not-the-fire-of-candles, while praying to her, and then he just waited for the sensation to go away as the usual.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ10DBZzufcC 維尼

However, it didn’t. Someone was REALLY praying to him!8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡVnqQq7r63g 維尼

Every god was able to feel where their prayers were, and then could help them in their mortal issues (or just laugh on their face when they wanted something stupid). Faugon, although as disabled as an old and sick mosquito, still had that capacity, and took his way in the direction of his prayer.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡobfk7yII1F 維尼

During the whole time of his journey, the god only thought about one thing: convince the prayer to pray harder, and spread his or her belief to the ones around. Faugon’s imagination thrived with pictures of him destroying all the power plants of the world. All the lights would be turned off, and everyone would have to use candles again, making him powerful as he never had been.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡDfLnQk9ZbV 維尼

Many and many days and miles after that, after getting lost, being robbed, bitten by wolves, struck by a lightning, burning his feet in hot lava, ripped by a shark family (gods are immortal, so they always get a way to collect their pieces and keep going on), possessed by the ghost of a capybara, getting kidnapped by the Italian Mafia, being arrested, escaping the prison, kissing a beautiful lady (hey, sometimes good things happened), being struck by a lightning again and stepping on an ant nest, Faugon finally found the prayer.  8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡKCu6yAFHd4 維尼

She lived in a small village in the middle of a forest (a village where there was no sign of electricity, what a pleasant fact!), and, when the god got there, he realized the prayer was a child. He met her even before entering the village: she was sitting in a short wall near the entrance, with a large book in her hands.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡjEwfSMSqH0 維尼

“What are you doing here?” she asked.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡaTozvPXYhg 維尼

“I… mmm… I’m a traveler,” he said.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡbamZeh2M4x 維尼

“Bad place to come to”, she said with an expression that looked like the girl in the donut shop when one day Faugon asked for Pizza. 8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡCMKQh9L1n0 維尼

“Mmm, why?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIvJSod1zV 維尼

“There are some bad spirits that haunt us at night.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡBjrQqbXlb0 維尼

“Spirits?” he asked. Faugon knew something about supernatural things. He was a god, after all. “How are them?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5ZOSWqI2Pf 維尼

“They kind of have the body of a monkey and the head of a llama. They come each three nights when there isn’t moonlight, and spit at us all night long if there isn’t any fire nearby.“8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡBiKsJMI1JB 維尼

That was a pretty good description of them, and Faugon already knew what she was talking about.    8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡpbqgc8sCdA 維尼

“Lammonkers”, he said. “That’s how they are called. Well, that’s actually a popular name, the real name is bishomasfedorentoeinutile”.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡmMKSOganUi 維尼

“Bishomas what? How do you now that?” asked the girl with disbelief.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡuH8hvAzxnv 維尼

“They are common where I come from,” Faugon lied.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡbhifmZowlL 維尼

“And why do they spit at us?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡBbXuNBfDd6 維尼

“It’s their way to communicate. They are probably asking you guys to light fire or something like that.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡcigiWUYsdp 維尼

“Because…?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡb2m5nTUxra 維尼

“Well, lammonkers are invisible when there is light and visible when there isn’t. The thing is that they don’t like to see each other on third days, it’s a kind of a superstition of them. So they ask you to light fires, making them invisible again.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡccB4FSzBIF 維尼

“Well, that explain why they appear only when the fire dies,” she said and then sighed. “If we at least had some electricity, these spirits could be easily kept away.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡo1umnNhrEI 維尼

“Oh, don’t think like that,” Faugon said. “Electricity, mmm… gives you, mmm… cancer. You should never have it in your house. Never.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡjAt1yiUJRQ 維尼

“But what about all the other people in the world? Will they get sick?” asked the girl.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5EIL7fNnjl 維尼

“They are all already sick and don’t know it yet, because, mmm… the government is hiding the truth from them. They will then make billions selling medicines,” said Faugon.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡLVUK9AgwOt 維尼

“Oh, that’s terrible!” said the girl. “I will ask my mom to never let a single spark of electricity enter our house!”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡAJoa5TSdQT 維尼

Faugon thought that he might finally be liking a human.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡmN5VhClGmu 維尼

“Well, then I suppose I’m doing the right thing,” the girl said.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡWu81lNqkP9 維尼

“Oh, are you?” Faugon got very interested. She would possibly say something about the prayers. “And what is it?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡvASlQP553k 維尼

“I’m praying to Faugon,” she said, making Faugon so happy he even smiled, “the goddess of fire.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡorpWxsIn2z 維尼

“What? Goddess?” Faugon couldn’t avoid a confused expression.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡIHEShGikTb 維尼

“Yeah,” the girl said. “Goddess. Just like in this book. Look here.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡo6CWBnqiyU 維尼

The girl then opened the big book, which title was “The most important gods” in a page with a very old picture of Faugon’s sister, Fauganne.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡoYbpNB5Paf 維尼

“Faugon, goddess of fire-but-not-the-fire-of-candles,” she read. “She can control and create fire, except for the fore of candles, whose controller is… well, his name is blurred, who appears in ‘The less important gods and gods not important at all’, page 415.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5Xcw8e6ypl 維尼

Appearing as a mere relative of his sister almost made Faugon take that book from the hands of the girl and burn it, but he didn’t do it for some reasons. One: burning the book would imply the superiority of his sister; two: the writing in the book was clearly “Fauganne”, what meant the girl possibly didn’t read very well yet. And he could use that in his favor.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡHIe6bLOCaQ 維尼

“Well, it’s your lucky day,” he said, trying to make the most feminine pose he could do. “You are looking right at her, darling. I am Faugon.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡMm60JXZ42Z 維尼

“But… Faugon is a woman,” the girl said.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡwnPYAZh0YN 維尼

“It’s my… mmm… mortal form,” Faugon said. “Every god has one.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡsDcKC5zXC8 維尼

“And why aren’t you a woman in your mortal form?” the girl asked.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡPpnORh7uBm 維尼

“Well… mmm… women have some… mmm… extra… work, that is really annoying. Mmm… how old are you?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ5nNUStboVo 維尼

“I’m 7.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡx2111TnvoU 維尼

“In maybe 4 or 5 years you will know what I’m talking about.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡfd6bdUt8Uo 維尼

“Couldn’t you be a child?”, the girl said.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡdIBSApiOjF 維尼

“Well, of course I could, but… children… well, nobody takes them seriously. I bet no grown-up person listens to you, do them?”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ76WpsvBffz 維尼

“No, you are right,” the girl said, “they always say I am too small and know nothing.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡVC7cSoqFFM 維尼

“Well, I listened to your prayers, my little piece of cake, and will help you to get rid of these damn annoying spirits.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡtkFEWK4te0 維尼

“Oh, thank you so much goddess!” the girls’ eyes glowed in admiration.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡUBB5xcdFVV 維尼

“But,” Faugon couldn’t let that chance escape. “You will have to help me. I’m in a mission to destroy all the power plants of the world, and free the people from… getting cancer. You will have to become my sorceress in this place, and expand my influence the most you can.”8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡO6dqFXz5kt 維尼

“I will do everything, Ms. Faugon!”  8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡ2Z1KN3jrby 維尼

In that moment Faugon knew that, although humiliating, that was the beginning of a new age for him. He could see again, in his imagination, a very big power plant under a sea of melt candle wax, and smiled thinking about a future with no more electricity, lightbulbs and lampposts.8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡzL7rMcweLa 維尼

[I was going to make it longer, but something happened and that will not be possible anymore. But if you liked the story, please tell me, I can continue it later. Thanks for reading!] 8964 copyright protection280ＰＥＮＡＮＡyTGXSS9JQW 維尼

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