In the wild, nothing is passed forward by accident. Life continues because those who walked before us bend their bodies, their strength, their knowing, toward the ones who are not yet ready to stand alone. This is the first covenant of the living world: that power is not hoarded, but given — that the old spend themselves so the young may begin. Across species and seasons, the pattern holds. A mother lifts her young into sheltered branches, a guardian stands between danger and the new, a foal drinks the future from its mother’s body. No ceremony names these acts, yet they are the oldest rites we know — the rites by which a lineage remembers itself. Each generation alters what comes after it: through strength or neglect, through nurture or omission, through what is offered and what is withheld. In these animals we witness the pattern unbroken — the sacred responsibility to prepare a future we ourselves will not inhabit. This series is a witness to that vow — to the truth that the world we inherit is always the residue of someone’s choices, and the world that follows us will be shaped by our own.