This staggering sacrifice didn't cause them to resent Ikenga. On the contrary, it made their reverence for him grow infinitely deeper. In just a few short decades after accepting his terms, these newly enlightened primates achieved the impossible, they built a fully functioning, sophisticated society and a thriving community right in the heart of the Spirit Realm.
For a beautiful, brief moment, they were finally living the exact lives they had spent millennia envying from afar. They built, they reasoned, and they organized just like the apelings.
But their joy was tragically short-lived.
