“We gave him his life. A boy. Just a boy. He was young when he entered our pool. He should not have survived it. But he was strong, and the grand halls of the universe rang aloud with his purpose. We permitted him to live so that he might fulfill that purpose. We bound ourselves to him that he might survive.” “And… there’s no other way? For him to live without…” “This die was cast centuries ago. We accepted our fate, Alchemist. All of us did.”
