"Well...I have thought, perhaps I may come to work with the Master in the Tower, to be one of those seek among the books and the stars for lost names, and so...do no more harm, if not much good...."
"Maybe," said Vetch, "I am no seer, but I see before you, not rooms and books, but far seas, and the fire of dragons, and the towers of cities, and all such things a hawk sees when he flies far and high."
- from A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. LeGuin