The poor fellow has but lately arrived in Iraz. You, too, Master Jorian, to answer technical questions.Įxcuse me, my lords, said Jorian. It were inconsiderate to ask one of your years to climb thirty flights, so you shall ride with us. The squad of guardsmen clattered up the stairs, keeping pace with the lift.ĭoctor Karadur he said. He jerked his cords, and the lift rose, groaning.
Like the tower, Saghol, the ground-floor lift attendant, had been cleaned up for the occasion. Will you kindly mind your business, whilst I. I believe I was conversing with Master Jorian, when you cut in, Amazluek, said Vegh. Soliciting a new member already, eh, Vegh? said the tall, thin grandee with the pointed gray beard. A plump, trousered man a little older than Jorianaddressed him. The king waddled over to a window, where to Borai he pointed out various things below, talking animatedly. Pick strong men with sound hearts We would not have them collapse halfway up, heh heh. We would speak to him of plans for the city, and where better to discuss such things than this lofty eyrie, whence it is spread out below us like a map?ĭetail a squad of the guard to ascend the tower by the stairs, keeping on a level with us as the lift bears us aloft. Pray explain this to me, good Master Jorian. We have not been up here in years, heh, heh, said King Ishbahar, raising his voice to be heard above the clatter and splashing. Another mechanism struck a gong on the hour. The bucket wheel drove a gear train connected to the shafts of the four clocks on the four sides of the tower. At the bottom of their travel, the buckets tipped, spilling their water into the trough, whence it ran to the sump. As each bucket filled, the escapement released the wheel, allowing it to rotate just far enough to bring an empty bucket under the spout. Water ran from this reservoir through a pipe to a large wheel bearing a circle of buckets. The shaft driven by the horse mill on the ground floor rotated, driving the pump that raised water from the sump to the reservoir above. On the clockwork floor, the machinery was in full noisy operation.
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