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"Do I need to take notes?"

Orsala sine you’ll be sick of this history by the ti draws from this, so it will be repeated"

"Okay, hit els who fell to the earth from above Twenty-one who defied the creator and took humans as mates Had children Many of them Seven returned Seven were killed Seven remained Others followed them, but they were the first The seven who returned, we call the Forgiven They are the fathers of the Irin race"

"The ones who left their children," Ava said

Orsala cocked her head "They were not creatures of this world They had no business here Sonored the twist of anger in her belly and asked, "And these seven gave their power to their children"

"Uriel gave us the gift of life Male and feave Irina the gift of hearing so that we ht hear the souls of the world around us to aid in their protection The other powers are more specific and ave a few of his blood the gift of e, and also the ability to read the history of objects"

"You’re talking about touch telepathy?" Ava was starting to get excited It was real and unreal at the same time

"In a sense" Orsala continued without further explanation "Mikhael gave his daughters the gift of strategy Sadly, not a developed gift for far too long It was not as respected as some of the others"

"Why not?"

"Irina revere creation and prophecy Seeing the connections between things is not creative It is, however, one of the ifts that we have learned to wield"

"That enerations, our blood has h her primary talent comes from Ariel"

"Which is…"

"Those of Ariel’s blood exhibit eleels Sos say he was present with the Creator at the dawn of our world, though we have no way of knowing this Ariel’s children can control the elerees Primarily wood and metal In the past, Irina of Ariel’s blood were our chief architects and builders Very highly respected"

"Okay By els"

"Yes"

"So as the seventh?"

Orsala leaned forward and peered into Ava’s eyes "The seventh was Leoc, the seer And Leoc, giver of visions and bearer of prophecy, returned to the heavens, but his daughters bear his an to prickle She could feel the swell of power coliift"

Her heart beat a rapid rhythhters are seers?" she whispered "They have… visions?"