For six thousand years, this has been the paradox of their existence: the world alters itself so easily to accommodate their casual whims they scarcely notice, while with a focused effort they can persuade it to change even its deepest nature, and yet when it comes to the desires of their own deepest natures, they can only push furtively and with restraint against the limits of far more arbitrary rules.

But love is an irresistible force, and the edicts of Heaven and Hell are not immovable.

In the end, the miracle wins.