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The festive aten and his corinned, well,in her hair It seeray clouds settled over the table

“We en continued “In fact it should spur us to find answers, and that’s why I have called you all together: to find answers, for the wall is constantly weakening We cannot fix the breach, but there s we can do We were always more powerful as a collective than as individuals”

“We have been looking at the problem of the wall,” Itharos said, with a wink at Dale He conjured out of the air copious diagrams and equations scrawled across scrolls

However, as if this was soan to ru beneath Dale’s chair She stood in alarrew, enco dust Crockery fell out of cupboards and crashed to the floor A crack jagged up one wall and the floor pitched so h she were on a ship at sea

Blocks of rock tu above and s it would not be enough to protect her if the whole tower decided to collapse

She are of Merdigen shouting orders and theto and fro in the dust haze until they disappeared beneath the arches on either side of the chamber

Another block crashed to the floor just inches fro if this was the end of all things

Alton paced alongside the wall His night’s sleep had been worse than usual, filled with s full of fear and despair eating at his mind He awoke full of trepidation

And yet everything about thewas as usual The encampment went about its day-to-day business and the wall and tower reed He’d hurried Dale through breakfast wondering if the es in the toould note any difference and provide an answer to his disquiet He hadn’t told Dale how he felt, but he had practically pushed her through the wall

Now he apprehensively awaited her return Waited, waited, and waited He was sick of waiting when he should be able to get answers for himself

On impulse, he halted in front of the tower and pressed his pal hurled away fro He kneas the wall guardians sending outon?

He was joyous that the guardians allowed him this much communication, but he feared what it meant

Just then the ground pitched beneath hi He did not juainst it, leaned into it, and tried to reround rolled under his feet

“Dale!” he screauish