Children of Ruin (Children of Time #2)
Children of Ruin: Past 2 – Chapter 5

Such

hostile environments.

Such killing grounds.

And yet so strange. Word spreads until All-of-We know that here, here is something. As we generate and spend our energies new patterns emerge, a dizziness and madness of chemical gradients that lead Some-of-We to yearn towards this newness.

Some-of-We touch their substances, encounter their new elements, learn their valences and their shapes, the folds of their curious molecules.

Some-of-We vanish, never to be heard from. But we are We and there is always More-of-We to learn from those that went before. Many-of-We are intrigued as to the possibilities of these new shapes and spaces.

Consensus spreads.

We cannot ignore this intrusion. Some-of-We will act.