By the time we developed a taste for meat, we were already building weapons to catch more meat. By the time we were on our feet, we were building machinations to carry us faster. There wasn't even a thousand years between our realising the stars were teeming with new worlds to discover, and the building of machines to go and visit them. All our stupidity and violence, we took it out into the black, tucked away under mathematics and uniforms. Sapiens made it to the heavens. The animals came too, hiding inside us.
