Ring of Reality

It was a regular, boring day. You got up, got ready for the day, attended your morning college classes, went to your low paying job as an usher at the small cinema near campus. Just your normal, average day in your normal, average life.

When you got home you began to get a massive headache, now normally you would eat a microwave dinner and play some video games or watch TV, but tonight you decided to turn in early. Not even bothering to take out another Hungry-Man as you promised yourself to eat something big for breakfast tomorrow; you head off to your room, the headache pounding with each step until finally you collapse on your bed.

You’re asleep in no time however, somethings off. You don’t feel asleep, in fact, you feel wide awake, fully conscious to everything around you, But what was around you? You slowly opened your eyes to see the most beautiful site you’ve ever seen in your life.

The entirety of the universe surrounded you. Stars upon stars, galaxies upon galaxies as far as you could possibly see. You felt like you could’ve stared at the sight before you until the end of time itself before you heard something behind you clear their throat.

You spun around as fast as you possibly could, somehow being able to move normally despite being in the middle of space, and then that’s when you caught eyes with the being.

They were tall, like, really tall, somewhere close to 7’ and some change, the next thing you noticed is that you couldn’t tell their gender. Their hair, facial and body structure could all be that of either a man or woman, either way you couldn’t help but find them to be extremely attractive. You could feel your lust beginning to spike and you knew no matter what gender this person was you would submit, both mentally and sexually, to them without hesitation.

As your eyes began to wander up and down you took in other features about them; they wore a flowery crown atop their head, they wore a white gown like the kind you would see on angelic and godly beings in painting depictions.

Wait a minute.

Is this a god? Wait are you dead?! Are you being judged right now? You try to think back on your life but all your memories are hazy, as if you were looking at them through a foggy window. ‘No’ you say to yourself. ‘I have to be dreaming, yes why else would this all be happening?’ you wondered.

While in the middle of your existential crisis the being in front of you let’s out a gentle laugh before saying, “Don’t worry you’re not dead, you’re not being judge.” they continued. “However, you’re not dreaming either.”

You stop your frantic train of thought as they say those words, utterly confused about everything. They give you a gentle, knowing smile as you try to wrap your head around reality itself and just what the hell this being is.

“What I am depends on who you ask,” they say. “I could be an angel, I could be God, I could be gods, I could be the very universe itself.” They gesture widely to the space around the both of you. You really aren’t dreaming are you.

They nod at you before continuing on (your cheeks flush red with embarrassment after forgetting they could read your mind), “You see Alex, I’ve been watching you. And to be completely honest, your life is rather dull isn’t it?”

They were right. For as long as you could remember your life has never had any true meaning in it. Your life has always settled into the same boring routine, changing minimally as you’ve grown older to accommodate for more responsibility and such. You had both your parents, they worked normal office jobs at some firm somewhere. You had a sister that was living her best life somewhere in Florida as a newlywed. You have a few friends but no one really close to you. You didn’t have the talent for a trade so you went to college and applied for a mid range major to make your folks happy.

You looked down in shame, they were right and you knew it. You fought with this fact for as long as you can remember and know that this omnipotent being has said it you realize there’s nothing you can do about it.

“But there is.” The being cuts off your brooding session. “And it starts with this”

You look back up to see them holding a ring, it wasn’t anything special, just a normal stainless steel ring. Like something you would buy for cheap off of Amazon to spice up your wardrobe.

“This ring is way better than some Amazon ring my darling, this ring can change reality itself.” The being smiled widely as you looked at them in disbelief. “Don’t believe me? Try it out.” They toss you the ring and you catch it right before it fell into the abyss below.

Skeptically you look at the ring, it wasn’t anymore more impressive up close. With a sigh you put it on your dominant hands’ ring finger, it fits perfectly despite it looking too big for your finger originally. Putting this thought to the side you think of something to change reality and get this show over with: ‘I have $10 in my hand.’

Exactly as the thought finished crossing your mind, a fresh Hamilton appeared in your hands, immediately you let go of it and it slowly floats away towards the stars. “Holy shit,” you say. “It works!”

The being laughs loudly, the booming noise racing across the universe, “Of course it works silly! I wouldn’t lie to you, I have no reason to.” A grin stretches across their face, threatening to break it.

“Why me?” You ask.

“Because why not?” They answer.

“I could be some lunatic who wants to destroy the universe”

“You forgot that I can read minds again?” They stay grinning as you stay silent.

“A quick rundown of this ring before I let you off Alex. This ring can change reality in any way you like, and go nuts about it kid. Go sex crazy, try out those kinks I know you want to try,” They give you a quick wink, “However the changes you make will not just make people forget about how things used to be. So if you say ‘everyone is naked 24/7’ people will react to it according to societal norms while still complying, lots of embarrassment and lots of excitement”

“If you want the change to be as if it had always been that way you simply have to add ‘this is normal’ at the end. For example if you say ‘everyone is naked 24/7, this is normal’ Then everyone will continue on with the change as if it had been that way like it always had been”

“There’s also the thing about matter cannot be created not destroyed, you can change reality just not the laws of reality. That $10? Came from some random whore that just sucked off a dick for it, now she’s really confused about where her hard earned $10 went. What I’m getting at is everything you summon or create will come from somewhere, someone, or something else so no worries about being the sole cause of inflation”

These rules seemed simple enough, however one thought did cross your mind-

“And no this ring will not take the command of stray thoughts, so you won’t blow up the earth if you ever accidentally think it. The ring will know if you actually want something to happen. And another thing, I can over power the ring, so I can always restore things and take the ring away if things get too out of hand. However I have no intention on doing that unless you start a genocide so there’s your warning”

Noted.

“Now this is awkward but uh, what gender are you Reader- I mean Alex? Glad that’s a gender neutral name.”