“If that’s the case, better hope the same thing isn’t happening to the animals from Eden,” Lambert muses. “Sounds like something out of a fairy tale, doesn’t it?” If he sounds a little wry, well, because, well, that’s exactly what they’re in, from a very certain perspective. A story that people might only use to warn their children about staying out at night or the dangers of messing with faerie artifacts.

“Do you think it’s going to last? They were using it to dissect souls. That doesn’t sound too reversible to me.”