“Death has remade vindictive praying mantises into hunch-backed maidservants, has remade godlings into kindred cowherds who later rose to legendary prominence.”
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“You came into this world with Eve, in separate bodies of symmetrical brilliance. Before the fragility of your innocence slipped from the crevices between your fingers, I placed you into the palm of my garden. I couldn’t let Earth have you first. I admit, my intentions were never pure. I put you down in separate bodies, so the body heat wouldn’t clash against body heat, so you wouldn’t kill her like I killed her.”
“Not long after first using the serum, she began to hear voices in the walls. Without Leonard there to share the four-poster bed with her, or to ease her fears, she slept terribly and often woke in a cold sweat, convinced she had heard the voices screaming.”