1 We placed our glass box upon the table before them.
2 Then we took our glass box, and we went on into the forest.
3 And our glass box stood before us on the cold oven, as we had left it.
4 And we came to a stream which lay as a streak of glass among the trees.
5 Only the glass box in our arms is like a living heart that gives us strength.
6 We have stolen glass vials and powders and acids from the Home of the Scholars.
7 We swung our fist through the windowpane, and we leapt out in a ringing rain of glass.
8 And we looked straight into the eyes of the Council, but their eyes were as cold blue glass buttons.
9 On the ground there were long thin tracks of iron, but it was not iron; it felt smooth and cold as glass.
10 We shall go to this Council and we shall lay before them, as our gift, this glass box with the power of the sky.
11 We found wires that led to strange little globes of glass on the walls; they contained threads of metal thinner than a spider's web.
12 We are old now, yet we were young this morning, when we carried our glass box through the streets of the City to the Home of the Scholars.
13 We forgot, that night, to watch the sand in the glass which tells us when three hours have passed and it is time to return to the City Theatre.
14 And when we cleaned the yard of the Home of the Scholars, we gathered the glass vials, the pieces of metal, the dried bones which they had discarded.
15 And there, before us, on a broad summit, with the mountains rising behind it, stood a house such as we had never seen, and the white fire came from the sun on the glass of its windows.
16 Tonight, after more days and trials than we can count, we finished building a strange thing, from the remains of the Unmentionable Times, a box of glass, devised to give forth the power of the sky of greater strength than we had ever achieved before.
17 All the great modern inventions come from the Home of the Scholars, such as the newest one, which was found only a hundred years ago, of how to make candles from wax and string; also, how to make glass, which is put in our windows to protect us from the rain.
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