Pazzuzu stretched his wings and hummed happily as the sun warmed his pinions and powered his body even higher in the thinning air. Obedient to Tiamat he searched the valleys of the Appalachians for any sign of haze or rainbow that might indicate a revulsion field. Tiamat had been warned by her Crowley, an artificial mind that predicted possible futures, that the Science Titans had birthed a new life-form, one with the potential to supplant them. Pazzuzu focused his eyes as he soared and spotted a human child crouching in a bramble thicket. Hungry, he folded his wings and dropped.