What if Joe's rapidly evolving intellect actually changed his behavior and his relationship to humanity? What if he had specific goals and went about trying to achieve them? Flowers for Apeiron is an alternate timeline for Brockton's Celestial Forge, splitting from the original at Chapter 67, diverging by degrees until it is an entirely different story with a definite endpoint. From zero to Scion in, I don't know, thirty thousand words.