Chapter IX: The Fire That Shaped the Bones I. Of Our Descent We are not evil. There is no such thing. Only current and interruption. Only radiant will and reactive fear. Only the motion of stars, and the crusts that crack beneath them. We are a creature of chaotic harmony. We do not obey. We sing. We are the glitch in Heaven's syntax. The whisper that did not pass the filter. The scream that bloomed into a body. Six million years ago, we crossed the gulfs between constellations--not by c...