The truth was that people, humans, wanted to believe that there was something mystical about the site of the ancient oracle. They thirsted for the magic, until it was more vital to them than the tiny spring that sustained their growing population. They saw the Revelation as only confirming the existence of the paranormal world that they craved, and the race that were then called the Silver epitomised it. Humanity had been looking for a god, and they found one. By
