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Then came .

The story that emerged, over the next two years of obsessive research, was this: There had been a civilization—not before humans, but between the epochs of matter. They had learned that the universe is a question asked by nothingness of itself. And every question, if left unanswered long enough, gives birth to a sentinel. A being whose only purpose is to wait for someone to ask the right thing.

A sigh of relief.