ring She was quite still, her head limp on the b . Dor felt an ang an in his feet and shot up thr Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh …” y wafted into the empty air of ough the mor y sun. He ran with his lungs , until, at last, he saw it. It stood so tall; its peak was hidden b d it, obsessed with one last hope harted time and measur . T yramid, its stairs r s glorious ascent. No one dared set foot on them. Some men even lo y y passed. T eral guar looked up ut none suspected w y Bef y could react, he was sprinting up the king’ special steps man? Did he belong? One y eral dropped their tools and bricks Quickly the slaes began ascending the race f ens had begun. The guar ollo eople near the base joined in. T or po le thing e scaling the to ou could hear a rising r the collective y y to take wt was not theirs. hat happened next is a matter of T y history tells the story Babel was either destry w ther Time could testify to something else y same day. As the people climbed, the structure began to rumb he brick g ed. A thundering sound was heard—and then the bottom of the toer melted ay he top b he middle hung in the air, defying anything man had e sought to r shaken from a tree branch. Tough it all, Dor climbed, until he was the only fi gure still clinging to the stair. He climbed past dizzi
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