This is an older (c.2009) version of the story that has since been revised and expanded.
Ani endanya Aya le. Aya emi ren ikin iëm-Inaya iëmi-nellor ani ewi la-rendi. Alku ash Anín Inaya yashin er gherid la-ladli...
Before aught, there was the Creator Aya. And out of himself, Aya embodied the Inaya, His Children before Time. Yet the Inaya were cast into the Void and lost, scattered and each alone. They forsook Aya out of fear, and they turned away from one another out of desperation, though Aya strove to gather them: and so it was that the Inaya were filled with fear and despair and misery.
Then Aya created a beacon in the Void: Nevinmir, the Heavenly Hall, to be home for the Inaya and ease for their despair. He fashioned first the floor of Nevinmir with His immeasurable Strength, solid and eternal, a firm and unchanging place where the Inaya might dwell. It sat within the Void as a wide place, shimmering with a pure white light. And a few of the Inaya came together where the light of Nevinmir shone upon them, even as Aya went on creating the Hall.
He erected high walls, settled in His Strength, but fashioned of His Love. They were an embrace, fluid and yielding, and unique to each Inaya, but open on one side: and they shone with a warm, dark-amber light. Now more Inaya were drawn to the Hall out of the Void, into the mingled light, to bask in Aya’s Strength and His Love. Yet still they hesitated on the threshold.
Then Aya covered the Hall with a vast ceiling of His eternal and unknowable Mind. To the Inaya it was ever-changing, as each of them could know but only one part of it at a time, and as they looked into it, it seemed transient and unfocused, yet inventive, where new forms and patterns continually emerged. The great roof shone upon the Inaya with light of gold, and it mingled with the amber and white and called out to all reaches of the Void where there was nothing, until all the Inaya were gathered at the doorstep of Nevinmir. Still they did not yet enter: the Despair of the Void had taught them fear, and they were uncertain.
And Aya was embodied within Nevinmir, and he spoke out to the Inaya, asking, ‘Wherefore do ye hesitate?’ and the Inaya hid their faces from the light. Aya bid them, ‘Come ye into the Hall, Inaya: for ye did I create it.’
Then He called forth Koshya, and He said, ‘Koshya! Thou art the greatest of the Inaya. Thou wilt find thyself in my Strength, and thou wilt forget thy Despair.’ And at last Koshya resolved himself, and he found his own strength, and he entered into Nevinmir and his Despair left him. He stood awful of Aya.
Then Meriya was called: ‘Meriya, thou hast a deep Despair, yet know that in my Love thou wilt find comfort and thyself.’ Meriya uncovered her eyes and looked into the Hall and saw Aya’s open embrace: and then her Despair fell away and she smiled. She entered into Nevinmir and stood with Koshya.
Yathi was called forth next, and Aya said, ‘Yathi! What is it that thou despair at? Dost thou not see within the Hall all those things in which thou mayest find thyself? Look into my Mind. What dost thou see?’ Then Yathi too looked, and he laughed and was joyful. He too was shed of his Despair and came to stand beside Koshya and Meriya.
And Aya looked out of the Hall and called forth Nevi. Yet when he was called, Nevi fled away from the Hall and his despair deepened.