The Cracks Between (смешанная)

It is said that "History is written by the victors", but what happens when there are no clear winners? The age of true magic has been buried under centuries of neglect and fear, its origins collapsed into legend, and through the passage of time its legends worn down to myth, until nothing remained but the faint echoes of something that was once so much greater.
 
Hermione Granger grew up sitting at the corner of her father's table on D&D Friday nights, watching heroes and villains come to life, through adventurers delving into dungeons, gods toppling empires, monsters that had terrorized the world since before the dawn of time. When it proved that the idea of a magical world was closer to reality than she originally thought, her repressed thoughts would inadvertently gush out—
“Does that mean you’re a mage?” Hermione asked, with childlike wonder in her eyes.
“Mage?” McGonagall frowned in confusion.