Yeah, I hadn't been on Epilogue forever, and then last week I started browsing it again for some reason--and then THIS WEEK it just radically changed its format. It was jarring. But I did remember your artwork from there!

I had a few rationales that were less evolutionary and more magic-ish, too. One was a sort of Lamarckian evolution, actually--some shapeshifting humans saw dolphins and were like, "Let's meet them halfway!"