The answer had been sitting in front of Sylas for longer than he cared to admit, hidden beneath facts he had already accepted separately. Scorpion had once represented Greed before Rat took its place, while Hippo had represented Wrath before Boar somehow replaced it, and Sylas had spent so much time thinking about those distortions that he had never seriously questioned whether they were the only ones.
But then again... this one had been the least obvious of them all.
Pride still belonged to Monkey, or at least that was what everyone believed. Sylas watched another pulse of Pride leave his Seed and flow into the unstable figure before him, and the absurd compatibility between his Human Simioid Race and the Monkey King's path suddenly stopped feeling like a convenient coincidence.
