“Most of this is beyond even our comprehension, but we offer you what we know. It’s a spirit. And it once stood guard over a place where magic was. A garden, some have said, though that may be simply another fiction.” “Why should it want to wipe the Seerkind out?” “They were made there, in that garden, kept from the eyes of Humankind, because they had raptures. But they fled from it.” “And Uriel —” “— was left alone, guarding an empty place. For centuries.”