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Moni sighed exasperatedly. “Maybe you should just go save the puppy.” As she watched, the puppy was cornered against a wall, whimpering in pain and fear as the dragon slowly advanced.

The power would not be stolen, and could not be. It was sealed by the powers of Narration and anonymity.

The current holder of Adonalsium was very offended by this and blocked Thaidakar's use of his powers, leaving it just one Narrator against many.

Even in his sub astral form, Thaidakar felt the sharp pain as rents in his back opened up.

The terror continued to increase, as did the size of the fire.

Unintelligible knocked on the cognitive darkness and asked politely if he could come in.

Not completely unreasonable, but it is not the natural assumption, in my opinion. You can justify it not being a literal day, but if you were studying the Bible without any predetermined assumptions, I feel that you would come to the conclusion that it was a literal day. Sure, I can answer your points here. The basic problem I have with it being poetry is that attempts to explain the six-day creation account away as nonliteral or symbolic have, in my experience, been motivated by a desire to reconcile the Bible with an old-earth perspective and/or an evolutionary perspective on the origin of life, an attempt which I feel is both unnecessary and potentially theologically problematic. I don't know this to be the reasoning behind your explanation, but that is the main reason behind my skepticism. On your more specific points, I have some thoughts. The word used for 'day' can refer to day, as in daytime, day, as in the unit of time, or simply a general period of time. So when God called the light day, as in daytime, God was not defining the word to be singly used in reference to daytime. Given the context of including 'evening and morning', it does not make sense for day to be referencing daytime in that specific context. On your earlier points, here's my response: I can't answer for the poetic structure until that's extrapolated on more, but matching a temple dedication ceremony makes a lot of sense. The Bible is filled with repetitions like this. The story of Jonah, in the belly of the fish for three days, points to the story of Jesus, in the grave for three days. Animal sacrifices pointed to Jesus' perfect sacrifice. In this case, the earth was made to glorify God, just as the temple was made, just as, in the current day, Christians are made into 'temples' for God. Day seven being unending and only day six and seven being referred to as 'the' day are interesting points, and probably have some significance. Not sure what that is. Regarding the point that all the days of creation are referenced as a single day, that's using the same word 'בְּיוֹם יוֹם' or 'yôm' transliterated, which can refer to daytime, a literal day, or a period of time. However, if it were referring to a period of time during the creation account, why include the 'evening and morning' bit? (other than poetic license, I suppose) That word is used as a general period of time, and time is different from God's perspective, but Genesis is being written for humans to read. Again, I don't see a reason for God to tell us it was a day, when it actually wasn't a day. My assumption is that if God is making a dark/light cycle that is day and night without stars existing, why not set it at 24 hours? I can't say for certain that God did that, and I suppose it doesn't particularly matter theologically, but it seems odd that God would go to all the 'trouble' of creating a night/day cycle to make days and then just set some random amount of time for the day and night to be.

It immediately caught fire again.

Then his hair caught on fire.

This of course did not stop the absolute terror that poor Asi was feeling. The bird died a painful death, and landed right in front of poor Asi as he fled.

This of course did nothing, as poor Asi was being chased by a gigantic beast of prey. The urn dragon appeared to be having sport with some sort of small animal, chasing it slowly enough to let the poor creature stay just out of reach, singing it's fur with spurts of flame. As the dragon and prey came closer to the Wanderer's hiding place, she could see more clearly. The unfortunate prey was... a puppy?

The terror grew, and Thaidakar became short of breath, as if he was running very hard.

Moni facepalmed. "Well, I kinda... linked him to you. So you feel what he feels." Thaidakar felt a sudden spike of absolute terror.

This continued to have absolutely no effect, aside from Moni giving him an odd look. "Thaidakar, you do know where Asi is, yes?"

This did nothing to quell the hunger, and the sense of sadness only increased.

His hunger only grew, along with a fierce melancholy and sense of abandonment.

The wound resisted fiercely, but eventually closed. At that moment, Thaidakar began feeling absolutely famished.

"Avatar Stand In. You know, the adorable puppy I told you to take care of? Say, that arm looks pretty bad. You should get it looked at." Thaidakar's arm appeared to be suffering from what looked like a shark bite. "Good morning survey! I hope you don't mind that I used you to Narrate a puppy."

Moni popped in. "Of course not. He used a time machine to jump into the future, learn some important life lessons, and go back." She looked sharply at Thaidakar. "Speaking of, I don't see Asi." Thaidakar suddenly felt a sharp pain in his arm.

Theoretically, at least. Meanwhile, Nameless was sadly ordering a few traitors to the dungeons.

"For the bet! You bet me five bucks that Thaidakar wouldn't manage to revive himself somehow!"

Nameless looked at the note and teleported to Wizard's house, banging on the door. "Hey! Wizard! Gimme my money!"

Nameless teleported in. "Hey, Wizard! You still haven't payed me for the be- oh, dang it. He already left."

Which was quite inconvenient.

God created light and dark, separated them from each other, and called them day and night respectively. Then the Bible specifically states that there was evening and morning, implying that God made a normal day cycle (without the sun existing). And since God is already making a day/night cycle, it doesn't seem unreasonable that God made the cycle 24 hours.