What I needed was a vessel. A concept for you to cling to and fill with your own ideas, because that’s how human magic works. You take something innocent, like a city, and you give it power by projecting your fears and desires on top of it. On a person-by-person level, it doesn’t add up to much. But sell a dream to the world—combine the ambition of thousands, millions, billions of humans—and you end up with monsters no one can control, including yourselves.”
