I've just heard a very similar story. Oh, it's just right there on the tip of my tongue. Something of a very powerful cautionary tale of gods existing for no purpose than to exist, mired in an impossible hope of restoring what they couldn't save.

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What do you plan to do? Why are you continuing to live, dear?

Your people are gone. Are we to become yours? Or when you have regrown enough do you plan on restoring those you lost?