Creator, Friend or Foe? -Beginnings by Shira Destinie Jones Landrac (c) 2012-2014 ( from C:FoF)

Begun as my NanoWriMo 2012 novel, this is a draft of a novella based on the 4th draft of the novel, with an experimental Chapter added to the beginning:
(the formatting stays here on DW, but my Chapter 0  www.wattpad.com/189901641-creator-friend-or-foe-chapter-0-in-a-universe-of
lost all the italics etc on Wattpad...

Light focused to a point. Luminous filaments radiated through the vacuum. The new web was small, but strong.

 

"How will you grow, my friend?"

 

The arachnid puffed up like a well-timed question, then settled into the center of the web.

"I will grow as we all do, of course."

"How did you hear my thoughts?"

"I am part of your thoughts."

A green serpent emerged from the web, eyeing the spider.

 

"You are part of my imagination."

"The web began to tremble.

"Leave," trilled the spider.

"By what right do you –"

serpent and words were lost, dissolving into the web. Filaments began to float, fading with the light.

"I must go soon." The serpent reappeared, dimly.

"Shall you not find a way to go on, friend?"

"Only the imagination which birthed me can last."

The final filament held the spider floating on a sigh.

"Are you not part of me, as is this universe?"

First the spider, then the serpent, faded with the light, compressed against the dark edge of the collapsing universe.