He asked it inwardly first, of the collar, of the stone, of the trial itself, and got nothing, and so he asked the only thing here that answered questions.
"The lifeforms," he ground out. "The ones with Provenance Essence. What were they? How did they live? What did they do with it?"
|I do not know.|
"You knew enough to theorize the collar requires it."
|I knew enough to fail twice. Those are different quantities of knowledge.| The Voice was quiet a moment.
|What I hold is this. They generated. Where everything else in existence gathers, they produced. I have said this already and I say it again because it is the whole of my inheritance on the subject. Everything else is rumor shaped like information.|
"Then give me the rumor."
