What is recorded here

Fairy forts are a misnomer. Humans built them, lived in them, abandoned them, and only later invented fairies to fill the empty rooms. That is the whole trick. The fort is not a fantasy, it is a memory that lost its people. What sounds like magic is often just age.

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