If Ageless was the Inside--

Then Have You Considered My Servant, Twilight? is the outside.

A companion story of sorts to Ageless. Not a counterpoint so much as devil's advocate, much as in the beginning of Job the Adversary questions Job's character. Which is fitting, because this story is very loosely based on the Book of Job.

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[KitsuneRisu]

I should have paid more attention to the Bible. Remind me which one Job was again?

[Cynewulf]

4030606 Job is the one where Maybe-Satan shows up to be a butt when the angels present themselves to in parade and questions just how "good" a certain one of God's favorite humans really is--Job isn't good or kind or wise, he's just doing tricks like a dog because you've protected him and given him everying he could want--so goes the argument.

In short order, he loses everything. His children die in a tragedy, raiders moving through the territory happen to come across his poorly defended and vast flocks, and he ends up in poor health on top of it all in the ruins of his old house. But he doesn't despair or curse God, and so he has won the "Wager" from that prologue. But the story is really about his three friends showing up to sit with him in his mourning until at last they get tired of sitting and empathy and decide what Job really needs is to be lectured about how bad thngs happen to you because you have failed to appease heaven or have done some secret evil and not just because sometimes bad stuff happens. Job argues back. It's best thought of as a very, very old theological drama that actually isn't so much about the nature of evil (as people often think) but really more about the nature of God.

It's like that but with Twilight and Celestia and Luna playing as the devil's advocate.

[Rao the Red Sun]

My favorite "God is kind of a dick and gets pissy when you call him out on it" story. Job was a trooper though, for the most part. Help up better for longer than I probably would have. I stub my toe and start cursing all existence.

Now, do I trail along as chapters release, salivating from the soul all the way, or wait until it's finished and gorge to my heart's content? Decisions, decisions.

[horizon]

... My Servant, Twilight

Celestia proposes a wager ...

... A very loose retelling of the Book of Job.

Dang it, I was getting all excited that the first 80 Days crossover fic had been published.

[Cynewulf]

4030653 see, interestingly, that interpretation is in line with the three friends, even tho it's the usual one.

4030754 not yet! Sorries