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The Tower
His eyes burn with excitement for bitter though the loss of the Hunger may be greater still is the prize that lies now so near to his grasp, a prize neither he nor his fellows had dared even to dream would one day be theirs until their triumph over all who stood against them beneath the Forums had made this movement to the surface possible. Even upon seizing this site which is theirs by right as his heirs the thought that such a thing as this actually be present was a thought best left unspoken and not indulged until such a time as this when evidence finally speaks of more than mere possibility. “To my side, brothers,” the great giant calls. “Come! Quickly now! Let us move these stones ......” Together they labor shifting with a surprising delicacy great blocks of stone as if concerned about damaging both the stones themselves as well as what may lie beneath them.
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