NORI’S POV

He’s drinking out of a cup from ancient Sumer and doesn’t know it. The cup, which predates the Hellenic period, gleams golden in the light. It’s not gold, though. It’s electrum, a commonly smelted metal from that time. The cuneiform script on it has characters from the Epic of Gilgamesh on it, a tale about a man seeking immortality. He dies in the tale, a lesson to mankind that living on and on steals the preciousness of time. However, Gilgamesh is defied after ...