I'd been avoiding that task, knew why, too, shuddered from it, did nothing to actively seek out what I needed, on purpose. Because the first one of that order I located was now dead, her realm dissolved and absorbed by Chaos, along with the entire corridor where her power resided.

Gaea. In taking the green spark from her I'd killed Mother Earth. Stripped away the seed of Chaos, willingly given or not, the tiny light born from my persona that Adam used to connect fully to ...