1 We had nothing to fear from them.
2 For men may wish nothing for themselves.
3 Only we felt nothing upon our back any longer.
4 We saw nothing as we entered, save the sky in the great windows, blue and glowing.
5 We lit the candle and we saw that our place had not been found and nothing had been touched.
6 They would see nothing, save our crime of working alone, and they would destroy us and our light.
7 We can light our tunnel, and the City, and all the Cities of the world with nothing save metal and wires.
8 No men stopped us, for there were none about from the Palace of Corrective Detention, and the others knew nothing.
9 Had the others seen it, they could have guessed nothing, for it looked only as if we were shading our eyes from the sun.
10 There was nothing left around us, nothing save night and a thin thread of flame in it, as a crack in the wall of a prison.
11 We could not see our body nor feel it, and in that moment nothing existed save our two hands over a wire glowing in a black abyss.
12 Give no thought to us, for we are nothing, but listen to our words, for we bring you a gift such as had never been brought to men.
13 The second blow stopped the first, and for a second we felt nothing, then the pain struck us in our throat and fire ran in our lungs without air.
14 We wish nothing, save to be alone and to learn, and to feel as if with each day our sight were growing sharper than the hawk's and clearer than rock crystal.
15 And now there is nothing here save our one body, and it is strange to see only two legs stretched on the ground, and on the wall before us the shadow of our one head.
16 It makes the needle move and turn on the compass which we stole from the Home of the Scholars; but we had been taught, when still a child, that the loadstone points to the north and that this is a law which nothing can change; yet our new power defies all laws.
17 A flaming grill kept dancing before our eyes, and we thought of nothing save that grill, a grill, a grill of red squares, and then we knew that we were looking at the squares of the iron grill in the door, and there were also the squares of stone on the walls, and the squares which the lash was cutting upon our back, crossing and re-crossing itself in our flesh.
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