Find the flowers on your family tree.

The sentence flashed at chaos from the top of an ancestry-service ad. Funny how those never went out of fashion.

All throughout history there were people who desired a connection with those who'd come before. Maybe it was a way to share in past greatness, or maybe it was a way to make sense of one's present.

chaos wondered what that was like. He'd always just been, an integral part of the Universe, with no "before" to speak of. Was knowing about a genetic connection that comforting?

It was something he couldn't know.