<div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/c/c4/Teresa.full.2218632.jpg)</div><div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/6/68/B143ef625b323da0d34435cd3e5e1b52c4f8f117d8dae1a6b1c080fcfcb73d6c.jpg)</div><strong>Sanja</strong>(https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iaJaDaJ8DzyYgO_Xkca8Jc0KFS-Jg0BmdAGbEDhr9-o/edit)<br/>Spark (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1R3URUvvMd7TgYuyiFGfbNueuoCKhOVbhAoeR_Z106CY/edit)<br/><br/>At the top of the many flights of stairs, the three girls emerged out onto an open tower.  Spark giggled and ran to the edge, then beckoned the others to join her.<br/><br/>The stars were a vast expanse of briliant white diamonds in the black velvet sky.  "Look there," she said, pointing down at at the two turrets beneath them, each at a corner of the tower.  "Implosion bows--like the one in the workshop, but larger and heavier.  I've gotten to work with them a few times.  I read once, long ago, the raksha burst through the borders of creation on the back of a massive bird with six wings.  It carried a whole army on it's back, but the artilery of the manse took it down."<br/><br/>She turned to point to another tower, half visibile in the distance, "That's where my family works.  My mother maintains the Storm Hammer there, and my father powers it."<br/><br/>Sanja grinned, "I thought we were up here to relax, not gush about siege weapons and historical wars."