“Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.”

“Mamma," whispered Rannoch as he nestled by her side, "what is man?" Bracken looked into her calf's eyes. "Man? Man is something you must always fear." "But why must I fear him?" asked Rannoch. "Because, my little one...man is cruel and cold. He eats up everything he touches. He enslaves Lera and breaks the laws of the forest. Because, Rannoch, he is the only creature that hunts without need.”

“Yes,' growled Fell, 'for animals do not know what they do, but man has knowledge of his cruelty.”

“That story placed man above the animals, until man's fall at Eve's hand, and linked humans to God himself, fashioned in his image. But now the black wolf was telling the girl a grave secret. That man was an animal too.”

“But of all the animals, man holds the fate of the world in his hands.”

“...man will try to guard his faith more preciously even than his gold.”

“On his brow a leaf of oaken, Cangeling child shall be his fate. Understanding words strange spoken, Chased by anger, fear, and hate.”