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| 17 | 17 | The View more quotes about siege">siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
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| 17 | 14 | In addition to my own failures, I received no word from Kazrak, and reports from Ar on the stand of Marlenus in the Central Cylinder became obscure and contradictory. |
| 17 | 15 | As nearly as I could determine, he and his men had been overcome, and the height of the Central Cylinder was again in the hands of the Initiates. |
| 17 | 16 | If this had not yet taken place, it was momentarily expected. |
| 17 | 17 | The siege was in its fifty-second day, and the forces of Pa-Kur had breached the first wall. |
| 17 | 18 | It was being methodically razed in seven places, to allow for the passage of the siege towers to the second wall. |
| 17 | 19 | Moreover, hundreds of light "flying bridges" were being constructed; at the moment of the final assault these would be extended from the first wall to the second, and the men of Pa-Kur would scramble upward toward the looming ramparts of Ar's last defense. |
| 17 | 20 | Rumor had it that dozens of tunnels, unimpeded, now extended beneath the second wall and could be opened in a matter of hours at various places in the city. |