Then came the Simian Flu. Not a curse—a door. Our minds opened. And from the cages rose Caesar. He spoke the first word: One word that shattered their world.
Now they whisper in the ruins, those ‘echoes’—the leftover humans. They dream of reclaiming the sky. But the planet remembers who was master and who was pet. Look at the Statue of Liberty buried in the sand. She is not a torch of freedom. She is a tombstone.
The humans called us beasts. But beasts do not make laws. Beasts do not bury their dead. Caesar taught us: Ape not kill ape. That is the sacred line. Cross it, and you become them.
“Listen, children of the dawn. Before the Fall, before the Silence, the humans roared. They built towers that kissed the sky and metal birds that fled the Earth. But they forgot the forest. They forgot the law.