Introduction to the Powerless

In which we meet a former god and learn of his forfeit

From divine to mortal. Photo by Marek Piwnicki on Unsplash

Four years had passed since my punishment. Before that day, four years was not even half the blink of an eye to a thing like me. Now, however, as a mortal, the passage of humans’ concept of “time” is a monstrous ball of iron chained to my ankles for me to arduously drag through the indefinite term of my imprisonment in…