It was indeed a question that countless people had asked in the past. But how many of those who sought answers understood biology as he had come to understand over the span of many, many years immersed in metamorphosis?
"Almost none."
There was the Divine Doctor, who declared that planet Gaia was alive. Rui had never been able to bring himself to believe it, but he came to realize something truly profound.
"Is there more of a reason for me to be alive than Gaia?"
They were both at their root a complex soup of chemistry and thermodynamics. Gaia was perhaps even more complex than he, considering her scale and the esoteric dynamics involved in her being. She was perhaps the most complex soup of life he had ever seen!
Thus, what separated some complex soups from others?
"Life…" His pitch black eyes widened with realization. "...is of those complex soups of chemistry that prevail."
