Epilogue Galactic Standard Date: 152,323.09 AE Ascended realms Eternal Emperor Hashem The ETERNAL EMPEROR HASHEM "You devil!!!" Hashem shouted as soon as enough of his consciousness had phased into existence to form a mouth. "How long have you been keeping the human root stock up your sleeve?" "That's for me to know," Shay’tan said congenially, as he sat in front of the galactic chess board. "And for you to find out." "Goddess!!!" Hashem shouted. When SHE didn't make an appearance, he called her again. The normally even-tempered Hashem let out a rare stream of curse-words that would have made a Marid pirate colony blush. He'd been around the block enough times to recognize when he was the chess piece being played in the eternal game between She-Who-Is and He-Who's-Not. The ‘room’

