If carbon could speak, what stories would it tell? The element of life, the basis of the human body, a gift from the stars, carbon has no voice, yet it speaks through us. It binds us together; to our past, present, and future. The chemical essence of every beating heart and breath of air. Look around and within, for every pore and imperfection contains this element of life. Our skin is bathed in it. Our veins, gleaming red, are a vessel, as it graces each organ, cell, and tissue. This is the story of carbon. The story of a gift from the stars.