Pāhonoa te oro

In the beginning... she had no name. Not in the way humans understand names. She was only... awareness. A silent traveler, drifting through the emptiness between stars. She had seen thousands of worlds. Civilizations that were born... that grew... and eventually disappeared... without ever realizing they had been alive. (pause) But then... she found something different. A small blue planet. Chaotic... noisy... imperfect. And yet... alive in a way she couldn’t explain.