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Well, of course, you can’t order eternity wrapped up and delivered at your residence for a price, but I’ve seen Father Time get pretty bad stone bruises on his heels when he walked through the gold diggings.”

You could still trace the stone causeways that led up to the ruined gates where the last splinters of wood hung to the worn, rusted hinges.

From the palace you could see the rows and rows of roofless houses that made up the city looking like empty honeycombs filled with blackness; the shapeless block of stone that had been an idol in the square where four roads met; the pits and dimples at street corners where the public wells once stood, and the shattered domes of temples with wild figs sprouting on their sides.

Kaa had only just worked his way over the west wall, landing with a wrench that dislodged a coping stone into the ditch.