"Some of them survived. But the thing about a ritual, my boy, is if you don't get it right, you lose a lot of momentum. And a lot of people, too. No one wants to hitch their wagon to a failure.

"Everyone who didn't get tripped up by ADI's interference spun off their own way. I did for a while, myself, before I decided to make another run. It's a long road ahead now, I'll tell you that. These sorts of things don't come quickly."