Though they are now understood to be a gross perversion of the original tribe, the Flower Children of the 1960s were once believed to be direct descendants of the original Datura Children. The movements occurred centuries apart, but proponents of this theory felt that they were deeply entwined through their shared Aquarian ideals, their capacity for rebellion, their rejection of traditionally held value systems, the belief in the possibility of a new way, and their faith in the secrets of their sacraments. However, their paths diverge at a point that is obscure yet crucial, invisible yet pervasive. The Flower Children sought to eliminate - rather than illuminate - the darkness of the cosmos; denying the true maddening horror of reality, rather than embracing it as their Datura Child ancestors had done. Because of this, the Flower Children’s fire burned spectacularly bright, but only for a moment. Their movement sparked tremendous progress in arts, culture, and technology, but the Flower Children themselves dimmed to ashes and embers in the dusk, remembering only the mystical answers they found to questions they had long since forgotten. But as the Flower Children came and went, the Datura Children remained, lurking in the shadows of certainty, inhabiting abandoned spaces and boundless vistas of ineffable chaos and ecstasy, mutating and evolving beyond all reason away from the prying light of the absolute, like baby alligators flushed down the toilet, grown grotesque and obscene in the sewers, unchecked by human intervention, as untouchable as shadows.