Lt. Shane Vansen in “And if they lay us down to rest”

For days, everything, before there was anything, you, me the sun and all the stars we can and cannot see were together in a size smaller then this point of light, then by an inexplicable somehow it became. Ten million years later, gravity tried to pull it back creating galaxies, billions of stars, trillions and a solitary earth made of one continent. For the four hundred million years toxic erruptions spilled volcanic ash into an atmosphere devoid of oxygen. Deadly radiation heated the acidic oceans, comets and asteroids rained with force greater than all the nuclear arsenals of the twentieth century and yet by an inexplicable somehow, life became.