The first murderer was also the first farmer. The institution edited out the rest. Cain was fourteen the year the priest rejected his offering. He had cut seven stalks of emmer wheat from the southern plot before sunrise. The altar took the lamb. The altar refused the wheat. Three months later he killed his brother in a field and walked east into the country of the people who shared his blood but not his name. He carried a leather pouch of seed grain from the field the altar had rejected.

He planted it in the soil of Nod. It grew. He fed six hundred people, including the woman whose son had died in the raids his mother's mission had set in motion. File 014 of The Unsealed Archives presents the firstborn of the Adamic default as the historical record carried him: the son no one named, the murderer who became the father, and the granary that fed the civilization the institution refused to bless. The Edenic Trilogy, Book Two. Companion to Eve: The Garden Gambit and Nephilim: The Genesis Experiment.