A novel I started but never finished, conceived during a college course. Maybe I'll pick it back up someday. Burdened with the "Primal Traits" of Consumption and Creation, 19-year-old Ulysses Ikenkeobara has moved to Colossal City to attend college and start fresh. But when he learns his classmate Gunhild Dao is involved in a serial murder case, he is drawn back into the world he wanted to escape. A world where the Children of Fire and the Children of Clay are locked in a struggle for their species' futures.