"So he created you to artificially recycle those souls," Snow White guessed. "Flood them back so new ones would come out."

Snow White wasn't sure how Garland could control which souls were born, but perhaps it didn't matter. Perhaps with enough extra souls in the system, Terran ones would statistically start popping out. Perhaps it wasn't Garland's power at all, but whatever the Terrans had done in preparation.

They reminded Snow of the way the Grimm brothers had cheated death with their magic and his nose wrinkled with disgust. "They should have faced their mortality with dignity."