But after her Emperor had ordered the Captain to return to his men, to
her chagrin, he had commanded Si'Wren that she should retire to her
tent whenever eating.
To Si'Wren, it seemed ridiculous, but henceforth she knew that she must
comply obediently without question.
* * *
Now, the memory of her indignity was put aside as Si'Wren sat before
Emperor Euphrates and inscribed in her tablets her intuitions regarding
the Invisible God.
Tonight she was attempting to explain, out of her own ignorance, with
but her own trueness of conscience to guide her, that the Invisible God
was not the same thing as his creation, the world, and also that,
although he was also spirit, or 'wind', he also liked to compare
himself in some ways, although not all ways, to water.
For instance, one might venture to 'see' the Invisible God by a most
curious trick of the eye, as by the discovered reflection of one's face
when looking into the still, motionless surface of any pond or wash
basin of water, which was also, after a fashion, invisible. In the same
manner that might one 'see' all things by looking obliquely at their
reflection in the still water, so also was the Invisible God both
'seen' in his creation, as by reflection upon water, and yet not seen
at all, since water was itself invisible.
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