Gil
Look at that, by Zarg’s statue.

Kiddu looks closely, squint­ing too.

Kiddu
I don’t see any­thing.…
Gil
There’s a guy walk­ing around the statue—
Kiddu
Home­less per­son?
Gil
I don’t think so.…

Gil isn’t sure, but the shad­owy fig­ure seems to be dump­ing some­thing out as it cir­cles the statue.

Gil
Look!

The shadow begins to glow with a vio­let light.

The light nar­rows and becomes con­cen­trated in the shadow’s hand. Then the light launches like an arrow, trail­ing an arc­ing vio­let ray up and over the Divid­ing Wall.

Gil looks back at the source of the arrow of light. But he’s van­ished.

Gil
Where’d he go?

Not a sec­ond later, there’s another glow from a sec­ond fig­ure, perched on a dis­tant bank’s rooftop. This glow is orange.

Then a whoooosh!, like the sound of fire eat­ing air. An arc of orange light shoots out from the rooftop fig­ure straight into Zargon’s statue.

With a deaf­en­ing crack, the statue explodes.

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