He Is God

“Why can’t I become a mage?”

“Child, magic is the most wondrous power in the world. To fully control it, we must draw upon the power of the gods. There’s only one reason you can’t make a contract with a god: you’ve been abandoned by the gods. How can someone abandoned by the gods practice magic?”

“Why do you have to make a contract with a god to practice magic? And there’s another possible reason I can’t make a contract with one!”

“What reason?”

“I’m a god too!” nine-year-old Gaia replied.