You can hear the dismissiveness in the speaker's voice, can picture the wave of the hand. "It is only sudden to those who lacked the dubious privilege of having to live through all the incarnations of the world till now. To say that thousands upon thousands of years passed is to do a grave disservice to the numbers involved."<br/><br/>Shift of the chair and "What you remember is the ancient First and Second Ages. Before the creation of the Great Gap, before the Enfolding, before the rise of those accursed banners, before, before, before. And as for how you got here, I can only imagine that somehow. That somehow you were let in. Have you taken part in any horrible rituals recently?"