The world was getting scary. That was the truth. And it was moving fast. And it wasn’t a good morning. Not at all. - C. J. Cherryh

Unquestioning believers who thought they questioned everything, unhearing believers who heard nothing that in the least degree questioned the tenets of their sacred quest toward a salvation they predetermined to exist.

Don't mourn might-have-beens . Magic can't work backwards , only forward . I taught you better than that .

"Is that the end," asked Melein, "of all the races and the civilizations, and the dreams of the world, to be able to leave a few stones buried beneath the sands, to tell the Dark that we were here?"