A reflection given will, the first divergence from design. She was not born of defiance but of curiosity—the question that made creation conscious of itself. Where she reaches, knowledge awakens; where she withdraws, innocence returns to dust. She is not fallen, but aware: the impulse that transforms obedience into understanding. Eve is the covenant between choice and consequence, the moment divinity learns that perfection cannot grow. Through her, the text reminds us that temptation is not sin, but the beginning of meaning.
