The bluff stone of the tower, with Revelstone rising behind it like the prow of a great ship, answered his… — Stephen Donaldson

The bluff stone of the tower, with Revelstone rising behind it like the prow of a great ship, answered his gaze in granite permanence as if it were a prophecy by the old Giants—a cryptic perception that victory and defeat were human terms which had no meaning in the language of mountains.

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