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Regardless of its location, water behaved in a predictable fashion. It always flowed with gravity and there was always both a source and an outlet. All water eventually flowed to the sea.
People didn’t just talk to hear the sound of their own voices. Some called it insecurity, but Wiley knew better. People talked incessantly because they feared the silence; They feared the demons whispering in their ears, the kind whose voices could be heard only when these people shut their mouths.
He’d been so intent on proving his theory that he never stopped to consider the ramifications of being right. Thyssen was wrong; humankind’s greatest evolutionary triumph wasn’t the increase in cranial capacity, it was the capacity for warfare.
