It has always puzzled her why we need bodies. It just makes so little sense. They are so imperfect, so smelly! If a body was like other things she bought in stores, she'd long since return hers for its constant breakdowns and generally never doing anything like it was supposed to!
All a body seemed to consistently be good for is limiting everything. Having a human body, you couldn't fly, you couldn't live underwater, you couldn't walk through walls (in fact, why did we even make walls? only because of having these silly bodies!) And if she had some animal body, there'd be other problems - only so much you can do with beaks or being spineless jellyfish (who mostly just float).
One day, she just had enough of this insane punishment of having a body and killed it! It wasn't hard at all! All she had to do first was to convince her spirit to let the body go (sometimes spirits did get too attached and comfortable having physical shapes). So once her spirit agreed, she laid the body down in the path of the Enormous Man who walked the same route every evening - another sad victim of the Body. His was the worst case of all as he had the largest body in existence.
As he stepped on the girl and released her spirit to roam free and aimlessly, the Enormous Man (Enoman) considered his plight - his body was some kind of mutation that allowed the body to grow and grow without an end in sight. The growth rate did slow down as he got older, but he still kept getting larger, with the potential of one day becoming too heavy for this planet and cracking it open (releasing all manner of goo).
Why did this fate befall him? What was the use of so much flesh, so many tendons, and a gigantic brain that curiously did not provide any more interesting thoughts than you'd get in a slightly-above-average noggin?
And as the heavy Enoman was again torturing himself with these heavy questions while trying to scrape the remains of the girl off his foot, a couple of gods looked up at him and smiled wearily - don't they get it? Besides the fact that most bodies weren't even there but were just a mental trap for young spirits (and the rest of the creatures could let their bodies go at any time) - the one body that actually existed - that of Enoman - was kind of like a Divine Hamburger - raised and "prepared" for the Grand End of Times Feast when the One True Spirit gets to taste Matter for the first and last time. By that point, Enoman will consist of all matter in existence. He will be delicious!
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