It was absurd what he did next. He put up his hands and braced it, as though, with the strength of his body, he could hold it up. There were carvings of gods in just this pose. In the Temple of Thakra, seraphim upheld the heavens. It might have been absurd to see Lazlo attempt it, but nobody laughed, and nobody looked away. And so they saw, all together, what happened next. It had the feel of a shared hallucination.
