One & The Same

- Nexus of Creation, The Tree of Life.

"A-Am I doing it right?"

"Still no, Gulban." Asherah answered.

"I can't believe this. I've seen you craft realities from the ashes of dying stars and tear asunder old worlds to make anew. And yet you can't play a simple card game?" Azrael was honestly bewildered.

"It's not exactly easy when I'm playing against god himself!" He defended.

'You don't need to make it sound like I'm cheating in this contest…' Yesh almost seemed as if his feelings had been hurt.

"I can't exactly be sure you aren't though, can I?!"

'I'm not.'

"…Fine. Let's go through this again."

The group of supremely powerful immortal beings threw their cards into the center and reshuffled their deck once again.

Time truly does not flow within the nexus, making providing an accurate estimate of how long they'd been playing next to impossible.

But this was their 123rd game in a row… you do the math.