The child walked around the house singing to itself. The hums and unfounded words created a veritable symphony that bounced off the walls, perfuming the whole pillar in song. The child had done this so many times before that it had become a constant of the evening.
Though now, Omega understood the intention behind the words and sounds, piecing together the characters in a way they could understand.
"Hmm, hmm, hmm, the world offers such a great canvas. It's such a shame that it changes by the second. That's due to you isn't it Omega?" The child asked Omega. It still thought Omega was unable to understand its language.
"No child. My dominion is over the laws of the universe, time is under my sister Gamma." Omega smiled at the child. Their expression soft with a small tear welled up, though Omega would not let the tear fall from their face.
The child immediately froze, almost unable to comprehend this new revelation. "You can hear me truly? Its not a gaggle of incoherent sounds and tones?"
Omega nods, "I finally deciphered it, or rather I've changed enough to understand your song's base intentions."
The child's eyes started to well up with tears, and unlike Omega, it let them fall. The child shrunk slightly in stature, making itself smaller than Omega for the first time since it had grown fully.
Omega lets the child cry for some time, enough for the eternal storm on the pillar to wane as it does during the evening. Finally, they speak again. "Well child, what am I to call you?"
The child looks up, still with tears, "I was hoping for you to name me. As a parent of a child does with the intelligent mortal races."
Omega sits up and looks at the child, they had never named anything other than laws. Gamma was the one to name everything as she would look through time to find names that mortals gave to things. Though Omega remembered where their names came from, a future civilization that would be studied for centuries after it fell due to their advancements. One other name from their alphabet would catch their attention.
"Eta, you will be Eta."
Eta looked up to Omega and smiled as it started to fly around the room. It was careful to not hit anything but still went at near unfathomable speeds. Eta giggled the whole time, it formed one of the most jovial songs that would ever be heard and only the two would witness it.
Omega eventually caught Eta and set it down for a moment. "Now I must ask you Eta, do you know what you have brought to the universe?"
Eta smiles, "One such as you should have figured it out by now."
Omega tilted their head. "Is it at the forefront or is it something more in the background?"
"It can be both. I brought to the universe souls, and by proxy, emotions. From the stories you told me when only I could understand you, before I was created, you all could not imagine. You worked with only facts and observations, but now, you theorize. You can form pictures in your mind, you can fret, feel joy, smile, and even cry." Eta playfully jabbed Omega.
Omega looks dumbfounded and then looks within themselves to see if they can perceive the change. Omega looked at their psyche and found something different than from creation. A thin film of moss had now covered it, a light touch that seeped into the cracks, filling it with life.
"Eta, you brought true life to the universe." Omega stands. "It all makes sense now. The unease we all felt when we noticed you. It was the first time we could guess, the first time we could imagine, the first time we couldn't just observe and learn."
Eta smiled, "And now you three shouldn't even be able to imagine what you were like before."
Eta moved to the door and opened it to the eternal storm that presided above the pillar. Eta held it's glass brush in hand waving away the clouds. For the first time, the stars could be seen from the pillar. The night sky painted with colors only the gods could see. Beautiful golds, blues, reds, purples, and whites made a piece of art only rivaled by Eta's own masterpieces. It flew up into the air almost as if it was playing with the sky itself.
Omega thought to themself that it was finally time to conclude the bet that had changed all of existence.