The few visible cues he gave in advance of his fiery leap would go unseen, and then I’d be dead and thrown back to the bottom of the stairs, only to run back up through the gauntlet to be killed again.Īnd then, as if exhausted from seeing me caught in the same loop again and again, those soldiers began to disappear, bored by the predictability of my appearance, or in merciful recognition that repeated battle with the same enemy in the same place had begun to lose its meaning. ![]() ![]() So large was this beast that when I was close enough to attack the toenail of his forepaw, the rest of his body would be impossible to see. And for days he killed me dead in one move, leaping into the air and spraying a pool of fire down in a circle so wide I couldn’t get out of its way, no matter how fast I sprinted. For days I climbed these stairs, slowly chipping my way through the scorched hulks, before coming to the top, passing through one last misty arch and finding the precursor of all life in the universe there on a stony circular pedestal with nothing but sky behind.
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