Annihilation: The Prologue (6)

''Speak''

'Thought'

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Mary seemed to be looking at me with a passive gaze, and her surprised face is now gone, now only her eyes seem to be looking at me with curiosity?

I don't know, but it looks like she is studying with those gazes of her, possibly trying to learn what I mean when I answer her question.

She seems to be looking at me with those purple eyes of her, while I look back at her eyes not fazing under her gaze.

Mary keeps looking at me until finally, her passive face turn into a smile, a smile, turn into a chuckle, a chuckle, turn into a burst of full-blown laughter.

"That is quite an interesting answer, I must say!! I would never expect someone like you would have that kind of idea when you become all-powerful.

The way you view Godhood is unique, I thought you would say something along the line of doing nothing or killing anyone you don't like, but it looks like I was wrong!!

You really are an interesting specim- I mean person." Mary said while trying o control her laughter.

"Uh... Thanks?" I said, not sure how to respond to her compliment?

"Anyway, you ask me what I would do if I become God, right?"

I simply nodded back.

"Well, for your answer. If I truly become God or something more, I would make sure to change what is in the pot; instead of pudding, I will change into... An omelette, you could say."

Now, I think it's my turn to be surprised by her answer because I would never expect her to answer something like that. I might only know her for, like what? A day, but for me, Mary seems like someone that does not care about anything but herself and her research.

But here it is, her answer seems to be against what little did I know about her.

"You want to change it?"

"Yeah, I want to change it because... Well, do you know the difference between omelette and pudding?

One is quite a healthy food, one is quite unhealthy food, and all I want to do is to change from pudding, the unhealthy food into the omelette a much more healthy food."

"That a significant change, you know? Omelette might be healthy food, but just because it is healthy doesn't mean people need to like it; people would much prefer to eat pudding rather than an omelette, you know?

I know that some people out there would prefer to have an omelette than a pudding and those who don't care about whether they are either omelette or pudding.

But I can guarantee you that most people would rather have the pudding than an omelette."

"True true, what you said is a good point.

No matter how healthy the food is, there will always be those people who would rather eat unhealthy foods than eat healthily, and it's simply in our nature.

But does that matter? When I am God?

If they do not like the fact that I change the pudding to an omelette, then all I have to do is make sure that those people change their mentality from eating unhealthy to eating healthy whether they like it or not."

"That is quite... extreme if I said for myself."

"Is it thought? When you are all-knowing and all-powerful, there is nothing too extreme. After all, do you know what came first, the chicken or the egg?"

"What?" I said out loud unintentionally, her question making out of the loop considering how the question seemed to come from nowhere.

"You might know the question, but do you know the answer?" She said before walking toward me before standing right up in front of me, with her being older making her full head taller than me, making me look up toward her.

Mary looks down at me with a slight smirk on her face before bending her face down right next to one of my ears.

"The answer is... the omelette." Mary said quietly next to my ear before bending back up and looking down at me.

"The omelette? Now I feel like you are just saying stuff at this point, doc." I answer back to her, not understanding what she is going with this.

Before, she used the same analogy, but now she is using her metaphor, and I don't understand what she is trying to say.

"You see, the omelette comes first; it comes before the chicken and the egg, and it is the reason why the chicken and the egg exist in the first place.

Without the omelette, the egg and chicken would not exist, and it is the omelette that makes the chicken, the chicken; it is the omelette that makes the egg, the egg. It is an omelette that makes those two.

But let me ask you this, what comes after the pudding?

Nothing, nothing at all.

That is why the pudding can be anything people like or nothing at all, but it does exist, and I wouldn't say I like that. Everyone should be like the omelette where it exists for a reason: to make sure that chicken and egg exist.

So that is why I will change the pudding into an omelette, because with it, everything will be like an omelette, where there is a reason why it exists, and that is to make the chicken and egg.

Of course, some people would say they prefer the pudding, but in the end, with all of my power and the result, they would see that the pudding is not truly good for you and they should take the omelette instead."

Turning the pudding into the omelette so that the chicken and egg would exist? I still don't get what she is trying to say here; it is confusing, but I think I understand the basics of it... I think anyway.

"You have no idea what I just said, didn't you?" Mary asks, snapping out of my thought, and I can only nod, confirming her question.

"Well, you are still quite young, so it's not surprising why you wouldn't get what I'm saying here." Mary said before going back to the machine.

"And if you expect me to explain what I mean by that, then forget it because we will be here for hours, which would delay my experiment for far too long, so I'm not going to explain it to you.

Maybe when you grow up, you would understand what I'm saying, but right now, you probably wouldn't know what I'm trying to say anyway, so I'm not even going to bother trying to explain it to you." Mary said

"Now then, after all of that, it's time for me to start the experiment."

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A/N

I wouldn't say I like to write down author notes because I often see no reason to.

But I want to do it this time because I know some of you are confused about the pudding and the omelette conversation.

So let me tell you one simple fact.

If you dig deep into what this really means, you will understand that, all of this conversation about pudding and omelette...

It does make sense.