In 2003, the Los Angeles office of Wolfram & Hart is destroyed by The Beast after it launched a brutal assault on their offices[REF] and then slaughtered almost everyone else in the city who worked for the company [REF].
When it is first visited by Angel, the room is occupied by a small girl[REF] named Mesektet, the most malevolent member of the Ra-Tet, a family of mystic beings [REF].