Are we sure this isn't some ploy of the publisher's to boost sales? After all, the best way to generate tons of interest in something is to tell people they can't have it.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
