In the end, the Lord gave Mankind the world. All the world was Man’s, save for one garden. This is my garden, said the Lord, and here you shall not enter. There was a man and a woman who came to the garden, and their names were Earth and Breath. They had with them a small fruit which the Man carried, and when they arrived at the gate to the garden, the Man gave the fruit to the Woman, and the Woman gave the fruit to the Serpent with the flaming sword who guarded the Eastern Gate. And the Serpent took the fruit and placed it upon a tree in the center of the garden. Then Earth and Breath knew
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