“My gaze drifts up again to the break in the wall and the night sky beyond it. 'So why call this the Keep of Ages?' I ask. 'Maybe they hoped it would stand forever,' Linus says. 'It's about timelessness.' 'Immortality,' Burnham says. I smile. 'Ironic, isn't it, since it's crumbling?”
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