I sat alone while eating, then Angeles sat beside me. Unlike all of us, he wasn't eating anything. "Do you prefer to be alone?" he asked me. "I just prefer to keep to myself. But enough about me, I want to know why you know about me and why you chose me specifically," he smiled.

"I praised you before, Blackwood, and you ended up being offended."

"I'm not asking for praise, I'm asking for a simple answer. I don't have the best reputation."

"That may be true, but you're a survivor of the harshest places and your animal knowledge is second to none."

"You put too much faith in me. You should have brought more people, especially scientists."

"It is not necessary, Blackwood. You're all I need. You underestimate your skills," I scoffed. "Never mind. So how did you come to your wild speculation theory?"

"Simple, Blackwood. Like I said, there's a line and for the line to not be filled with holes, there has to be an intelligent being documenting the world."

"I simply don't believe it. I think we are the first intelligent beings on this planet. If there was one before, we would have found out about it," he shook his head and smiled.

"No, Blackwood. We haven't found them... yet, and this island is perfect for it. You know the theory that humans evolved from ape-like ancestors was new only a few decades ago and the world revolved around us for thousands of years. You see, Blackwood, we're inheritors of previous intelligent beings that documented this world, and the one that came before us is hiding on the island, documenting it. And now we will take their place."

He made no sense to me. I didn't even bother to say anything. It was like talking to a wall. He spouts out wild speculation with zero evidence.

"Now, Blackwood, think of what the men said. Eden, garden, God. What if they saw the birthplace of man, nothing like the story, but something similar. What if one of the previous intelligent beings wrote the story of Adam and Eve but dramatized it to fit us, not revealing all the secrets, and simply gave us clues so when we find it, we will know."

He was starting to annoy me with that calm yet excited voice, like a primary school teacher. "There are so many problems here, but I'll just focus on one. If these previous intelligent beings want us to learn and document the world and all that, why did they kill those crewmen?" Angelus scoffed, "They were weak."

"Oh, so they were weak, huh?" I was disgusted by him.

"Through natural selection, beings live, and those men were weak in that department. You see, the strongest are the ones that adapt, and those crewmen did not. Earlier, there were dinosaurs, the strongest predators, the largest. But when an asteroid hit the Earth, who survived? Not the strongest, but the ones that adapted. Those were the rats."

He made sense a little, but I still thought he was an idiot. "You said some right stuff, some not so right stuff. One is that we don't know what killed the dinosaurs, so you're speculating again with zero evidence," Angelus simply chuckled and excused himself again. That man is simply irritating.

I headed back to my room and layed there, reading some books on animals, my favorites. I stayed away from alcohol, unlike my crewmen who drank excessively. I refused to leave my room unless I was called in or getting food. Even then, I didn't hang out long, simply got my food and went back to my room. I wanted to avoid Angelus. His voice and smile made me want to tear my ears.

Seven days had passed, and we came close to the island. We simply had to pass the massive storm. The storm was ridiculously massive, bigger than anything I've witnessed. The lightning was yellow, and the wind was as strong as a tornado. In my mind, I didn't think we would survive this.