She thought there was nothing stronger than a mother's bond. She was wrong. FIFTEEN THOUSAND YEARS AGO, the knowledge bringers--an amphibious, non-humanoid species known as the Huahuqui--came after a great global flood, gifting humans with math, science, and civility. We killed them all. Seventy years ago, we found one of their corpses preserved in ice and eventually created a clone named K'in. Our governments fought over the creature and we killed...