Once they had Language, the Cri could tell the Essei what they believed. They worshipped Jol, their star. They saw the Orum, and they ordered their lives by them.

It was, almost exactly, the faith the Essei had set aside: the old religion of their own Moon, still alive on another.

Essei scholars of the period describe the discovery in their own records with one word. It is translated, depending on the scholar, as “proof” or as “relic”.