Then the first Primal fell, and that changed everything.” “Fell?” “In love,” he said, a wry grin appearing. “You see, each time the Primals and gods interacted with the mortals, they became more curious, until they were enthralled with the wide range of emotions that the mortals experienced—something that neither my father nor Nektas created. Mortals were the first to feel, from the moment they took their first breath—and until their last. And that was something

