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So you say, with your back to him: “What did they call it?

“The obelisk-builders. You said they had a word for the stuff in the obelisks. “The stuff of orogeny. What was their word, since we don’t have one anymore?”

He starts to shake his head, winces as this causes him pain somewhere, sighs instead. “They called it magic.”