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Chapter 59 When in the height heaven was not named, And the earth beneath did not yet bear a name, And the primeval Apsu, who begat them, And chaos, Tiamat, the mother of them both, Their waters were mingled together, And no field was formed, no marsh was to be seen; When of the gods none had been called into being, And none bore a name, and no destinies were ordained Then were created the gods in the midst of heaven. . —Babylonian Creation Epic, Enûma Eliš . SHAY'TAN Come and find me, beloved… Shay'tan reached across the void to touch the silver dragon, but even as he did, her image began to fade. He awoke, weeping, great tears of fire dripping down his snout. He wiped them quickly before he incinerated one of his forty-six wives. "Shay'tan?" a tiny, Sata'anic female murm