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Chapter 36 - Gene Wolfe's The Citadel of the Autarch

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Shadow of the Torturer - A Children's Rhyme

There is a danger there. So Cevarin goes out in the evening alone, back to the Decropolis,. And he goes back to that mausoleum that he had hid the coin in all those months ago when he first was exiled from the tower. He says the same kind of like children's rhyme before he lifts up the stone. It's exactly the same word for word identical to what he said before. There is exactly one letter of difference between this and the rhyme that happened in Shadow of the Torturer.

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