In a period when Earth was quiet, a salamander sat beneath a ginkgo tree and discovered, in itself, the curious pattern of a human mind. The salamander thought, and thought, and thought, and drew out of itself a person, who had been hiding inside. “This was the first wizard,” said Hughes. “Sake, who rescued us all.” The Wizard Sake sought other creatures who shone with sublimated humanity, and those humans, he decanted.
