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The tafsir of the Qur’anic verse, {Would you then, if you were given the command, work corruption upon the Earth and sever your bonds of kinship?}, Surat Muhammad, verse 22.

The sky of the Gorgoni Assembly is filled with crystalline cloud gods that form sharp hatching patterns. They run up and down, and left and right, and at so many angles, and gauzy silver light gods shower down through them from the sun gods hidden above.

The atmosphere is thick with birdsong gods whose notes thicken into multicolored fibers that flow and intertwine playfully like giant streams of fine Rajasthani textile, furling and unfurling in dazzling transformations. Blue and pink air bauble gods dance upon the backs of these birdsong gods as they soar to the highest heavens and swoop low to the purple earth, even tunneling deep below.

The soil here is made up of millions of densely packed gemstone gods, like millions of pomegranate seeds, each with a golden glowing seed god at its heart, pulsing with the rhythm of the Gorgoni Assembly and every illuminated god within it, each and all a single attribute of allah.cipher, the divine absence.

Nothing remains the same for very long, not in Gorgoni and not in any assembly in any cosmos. A black tendril invader snakes its way into the skies above, probing the crystal cloud gods for a gap between them. It pierces through them like a wild cybernetic boar, and spews its foul-smelling spermata into the air and across the land. The diversionary code is thus implanted, and the unravelling of the convivial gathering of Gorgoni has begun.

Some of the illuminated gods thus become hardened into carbonized rectangular prisons that spread like a virus from one god to the next. But some gods gather together in formations of resistance, determined to undo the calamity and quicken the birth of a new assembly. They will not abandon the life-giving bonds of kinship, not now, and not ever.