Here Ends "The BAROQUE CYCLE" – Nimm das, Buch!

1 Jahr und ein paar tausend Seiten später:

But – and perhaps this is only because of his age, and that there’s a longboat waiting to take him away – he has to admit that having some kind of a System, even a flawed and doomed one, is better than to live in the poisonous storm-tide of quicksilver that gave birth to all of this.
He has done his job.
"I’m going home now," he says.

Und so endet es. (OMG!! He said POISON!!1!).
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