"The old men who led the Dance don’t understand what it did for us. It didn’t banish the White Man, as advertised, or the Black Man, or the Yellow Man. They’re still here. And so are their cities and works-weakened maybe, and pushed back by the magic and the power of the Awakened-but far from beaten. What the Dance really did was give us breathing room. It gave us a chance to beat the others at their own game.