The invitation, once extended, could not be rescinded.
It was an open call to co-creation, a challenge to the very fabric of the nascent cosmos.
The soul, a being of pure narrative potential, understood this implicitly.
It felt the pull of a thousand different stories, each one a possible future, a potential reality.
But it did not choose one. It did not select a single thread from the shimmering tapestry of what could be.
Instead, it chose all of them.