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They both broke up in drunken laughter, spitting and slamming their hands on the bar.
"Youre both wrong," said a woman sitting to Spyders right. He and Lulu turned to look at the woman. She was small, with fine features and the smooth grace of a dancer. The woman was drinking red wine and was wearing sunglasses. In her right hand she held a white cane, the sort used by the blind.
Lulu called over Spyders shoulder, "Okay Stevie Wonder, whats the worst way to die?"
The woman finished her wine and stood up. "To be betrayed by the one you love. "
She turned on her heels and swinging her cane in small arcs in front of her, pushed her way through the crowd and out of the bar.
Spyder watched the door as it closed behind the woman. Lulu took a drag off her Marlboro. "Stupid bitch," she said and dropped the butt into the womans empty wine glass.
Two
The Great Divide
The Earth was born in a furnace. When the world grew strong enough, it crawled into the dark void to cool and heal itself. Soon, however, it grew too cold and shivered with ice.
The Earth looked around and found a small star to warm it up. Deciding it liked the neighborhood and the climate, there the Earth stayed.
Life appeared across the Earth, splashed in the water and glided on thermals through the sky. It didnt take life long to grow so abundant that it began preying on itself.
Crows, bats and eagles, the lords of the air, scooped up fish from the seas and dumped them in the desert until the dry lands were piled high with their bones. These carcasses became the Earths first mountains.
Other animals learned to climb the trees and attack the birds as
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