"I..."

He began to shake a bit. The question had haunted him for eons. A creature with no basis in any scientific law. Where DID it come from? Why was it there? Why couldn't he explain it? The answer MIGHT be easy if he thought about it, but he was still locked in his scientific methodology, and thus the simple answer doesn't come to him.

Instead, he stood up abruptly. "I have to go," he muttered.