Hall of Weighing
The oldest room in the Mandible Precinct and the only one in the city whose walls the ants were never permitted to bore. Its laterite is solid and polished to a dull sheen by two centuries of elephant flanks; the silence is so complete that visitors hear their own blood. In the centre stands the scale – a beam of living ironroot the length of a house, two resin pans each wide enough for a standing elephant, an elephant's femur on one and four thousand and eleven ant-carried stones on the other. ...
Located in The Chitinous Mandate.