"Yes," Vania said. "I do. Isn't the presence of thaids evidence enough? Monsters able to wield mana? Seriously? They should be proof enough that what we are doing actually makes sense."
Erik's gaze hardened. "The Silverline Corporation created the thaids, though. Your predecessors engineered these creatures to find a solution to a problem they themselves created. Even if the reasons you are doing this might be true, the amount of atrocities you committed surpassed any good proposition you might have. Don't pretend innocence when your hands shaped the very threats you claim to protect everyone against."
Vania nodded, surprising him. "Yes, we created the first thaids. I won't deny our role in that." Her eyes met his unflinchingly.
"But they were proof of something greater, something beyond our understanding—mana. A power that doesn't belong in our world, a power that shouldn't exist by any laws of physics we understood."
