<P>The explorers learned that some legends say, "El Cid will one day return, and no we are not being arrogant," while other theories say, "Your behavior is arrogant." It is said that after spending a month in the city, the first ten days of which were spent proving that they didn't know the city's history and really did want to learn, they left having concluded various things including but not limited to:
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<P>1. It is impossible to convince a Cidite he or she is wrong.
<P>2. These people's devotions to their own viewpoints and ability to ignore all other considerations (logic, reality, incoming missiles) combined with their numbers could make them a nigh unstoppable force if they were to work together.
<P>3. These people's devotions to their own viewpoints and ability to ignore all other considerations makes it unlikely bordering on impossible for them to work together.
<P>4. The time had come to get out of there.
<P>5. They couldn't take much more of that.
<P>6. They never wanted to go back.
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<P>One member of the expedition got fed up, killed several Cidites with a DTS and, while the others were explaining that no, the DTS could not possibly have prevailed against the heavy weapon armed Cidites, was dragged out of the city by his companion and has since stopped frothing at the mouth.
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<P>When the expedition returned they were not, in fact, committed. In spite of what Cid may have said, we do not ill treat those with other viewpoints. We roll our eyes. Unfortunately this practice of eye rolling has made it so that the claims of the mirror city were never investigated. There is no evidence for or against the great fortress of the Cidites. It is regarded as a modern myth and nothing more.
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<P>Yet even those who maintain that there could not be such a city are at a loss to explain exactly where it was that El Cid went, or why his beliefs had been reaffirmed in the time he was gone.