She's not yours," Chris growled back.
"Yes, yes, keep her," Reyla brushed his protest aside. "This afternoon I was sitting in my library, thinking over your account of the memories you just gave me when the answer came to me. That presence could have been a Devine. Our legends say that long ago, this planet was a battleground, fought over as part of some endless war against dark forces. They began modifying the existing inhabitants with magic, importing new ones from other worlds to fight."
"I've heard a little of the story, Lillian tried to scare Annabel with it once. What are they though? Are they truly gods?"
"No one knows. There are no accounts of ever seeing one of those old gods and no one from that time is still living. Still, their powers were so incomprehensible to us that we w
