And So They Walked The Earth

Life and death, the famous trope. Born with the first creature, with a passion and love soft and frightening. Life coddled her children, and as they ripened and became too old to walk, too sad to feel, or too hurt to move, she gifted them to her lover. He received them gratefully, kissing the surface of their fragile bodies and keeping every last one. They had quite a few disagreements over the millennia, sparking bloody wars and devastating plagues. But when the human race becomes too aggressive and destructive, life and death must decide whether to tamper with the balance of the universe and let it heal its wounds or to leave it alone, sparing billions but perhaps killing billions more.