***Centuries ago*** “Look at them, tearing each other apart,” Adonai said in disgust. “I made them all with talents, and yet they squander them in war against my newest creation.” Hermia looked at her sister but said nothing. Of course, their father had made all these creatures, but he had also given them freewill. What did he expect to happen? Not this, clearly. Then again, he never could think poorly about his creations. Even when warned that making something that needed blood to survive would cause issues, he simply stated that death and life would find a balance. It had not. Then came wolves that could become people, and humans that communed with the underworld, nature and sentience mingled to form creatures from dreams and nightmares, and still no one said anything against it. It w

