Hearing about the origin of the Rat people, Farosa was pensive. She had never understood such mystical powers, nor could she think of any witch or Ancient Mystic with the ability to do such a thing. She could only attribute it to a new characteristic of the new era.
"Why is that?" Xu Yang was particularly curious. "Why, from human to rat, what exactly happened in the middle?"
"Having lived until now," Guan Wancang looked down at the dark ground, "I often fantasize that there is a powerful force that holds our fates, an especially detached existence that silently decides which of us will succeed and which will fail, while we can only drift along, unable to fight back. I believe that becoming a rat was also the result of that powerful force, with no choice on our part."
"There is little we can control, so we must try even harder," Xu Yang said.