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A stretch of the city wall in the Quarter of Justice where the stone has worn thin as alabaster, and light and sound pass through it. Hildegard tends it after Compline. On quiet nights it carries hymns and the noise of other worlds; the Cité's embassy to the Gaslit Reach listens here, and writes down what the Unterzee sings. The wall does not separate, Hildegard says; it translates. Lately it has carried something else as well: a voice from the Margin, singing the Scriptorium's antiphons almost ...
Located in Cité des Dames.