They had worked on the original creation, and were immensely proud of it. For millions of years, the divine forces of light, heat and gravity interacted in a vast cosmic dance predictable down to the second. It was good.
Until suddenly, the universe wasn’t quite spinning properly. Something had been added.
That was how they found out about life.
The work hadn’t been enough. The Creator had to go and add to it, infesting the universe with teeming objects that behaved unpredictably and upset the clockwork perfection of their universe.
They’d expunged it from three planets before they were caught.

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