The revelation at the end of the sixth day had unsettled the order they believed they understood, and even the quiet routines of the vineyard showed the break in their thoughts. Eden had been kept from them until its purpose stood beyond question, and the knowledge had struck deeply.

The day opened upon a land that bore fresh scars. The great beasts raised on the fifth day lay broken across valley and plain. Traditions keep reports of stone falling from the heights, of earth riven, of seas lifting walls against the shore.

The fifth day marks the first quiet turning in the labour of creation. Scripture speaks of the waters bringing forth living creatures and of birds rising in the firmament.