“Her eyes twinkled as she took in my scowl. "Okay, yes, but how?" I thought at her. "Do you know how a cell phone works?" "Uh . . . vaguely?" "Well, that’s about all I know about this circle. There are a few magi alive who can understand it and possibly even build its equal, but I'm not one of them. Archibald in his youth was one of them, but that was a long time ago." "So we're not living in a golden age of magic? This is a relic, then?" "It’s what we call an Atlantean artifact." "The whole... superadvanced civilization that fell into the sea thing and left no proof of their existence is real?" I tried and failed to tamp down my skepticism. "Even on this side of the Veil we don't know much, but we believe that they are the reason the Veil exists. However, we do know they were not human. They had a civilization that stretched across many planes. We believe the so-called island was their first toehold on our world." "So they created the Veil to keep the natives in line?" "No, the Veil was put in place by those who crushed the Atlanteans and erased almost all traces of them from the earth.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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