seventy feet long and fifteen feet wide. Likely fourteen feet, to be a multiple of seven. The holy number. Bryce scanned the hall. The only thing in it was a set of crystal pipes shooting upward into the ceiling, with plaques beneath them, and small black screens beside the plaques. Seven pipes. The crystal floor glowed at her feet as she approached the nearest plaque. Hesperus. The Evening Star. Brows rising, Bryce strode to the next pipe and plaque. Polaris. The North Star. Plaque after plaque, pipe after pipe, Bryce read the individual names of each Asteri. Eosphoros. Octartis. Austrus. She
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