The inevitable evolutionary decline of human predators hunting subhuman prey led to severely reduced circumstances for humans on Earth. At one stage their genealogy was interwoven into tissue mats of cascinoma cells. They were aggresive survivors, metasticising over the planet in a continuous films of human-like flesh. Their descendants were considered hopeless degenerates, multi-cellular melonomas limited to carpeting lake shores as slimey proteinacious mats of fleshy algae.They however retained consciousness and were able to witness their wretched fate. After an eternity of tortured lives, the mats of human tissue sensed something that could almost be described as hope, only to slip away quietly into even more depraved oblivion.