Nadia muttered, "The Garde are the peacekeepers after all," but loud enough for Clare to hear.

"That's horrible, don't the trees die, they seem so," Clare paused, "alive."

"Nah, we just remove branches, it grows back within a few months, they don't really mind, they've been doing it since the angels first arrived, it's one of the reasons they exist."

Nathan gestured, with his finger to the end of the cave, as they grew closer toward the noise, "The chambers for the court, ...