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The locked and  \nrusted gate that stood before us, with wisps of river fog threading its spikes like  \n“The guard has gone.” Thus my friend Roche spoke to Drotte, who had already seen it for himself.  \nDoubtfully, the boy Eata suggested that we go around. A lift of his thin, freckled arm indicated the thousands of paces of wall stretching across the slum and sweeping up the hill until at last they met the high curtain wall of the Citadel. It was a walk I would take, much later.  \n“And try to get through the barbican without a safe-conduct? They'd send to Master Gurloes.”  \n“But why would the guard leave?”  \n“It doesn't matter.” Drotte rattled the gate.“Eata, see if you can slip between the bars.”  \nDrotte was our captain, and Eata put an arm and a leg through the iron palings, but it was immediately clear that there was no hope of his getting his body to follow.  \n“Someone's coming,” Roche whispered. Drotte jerked Eata out. I looked down the street. Lanterns swung there among the fog-muZed sounds of feet and voices. I would have hidden, but Roche held me, saying,“Wait, I see pikes.”  \n“Do you think it's the guard returning?”  \nHe shook his head. “Too many.”  \n“A dozen men at least,” Drotte said.  \nStill wet from Gyoll we waited. In the recesses of my mind we stand shivering there even now. Just as all that appears imperishable tends toward its own destruction, those moments that at the time seem the most fleeting recreate themselves—not only  \nI. RESURRECTION AND DEATH 2  \nin my memory (which in the final accounting loses nothing) but in the throbbing of my heart and the prickling of my hair, making themselves new just as our Commonwealth reconstitutes itself each morning in the shrill tones of its own clarions.  \nThe men had no armor, as I could soon see by the sickly yellow light of the lanterns; but they had pikes, as Drotte had said, and staves and hatchets. Their leader wore a long, double-edged knife in his belt. What interested me more was the massive key threaded on a cord around his neck; it looked as if it might fit the lock of the gate.  \nLittle Eata fidgeted with nervousness, and the leader saw us and lifted his lantern over his head. “We're waiting to get in, goodman,” Drotte called. He was the taller, but he made his dark face humble and respectful.  \n“Not until dawn,” the leader said gruZy. “You young fellows had better get home.”  \n“Goodman, the guard was supposed to let us in, but he's not here.”  \n“You won't be getting in tonight.” The leader put his hand on the hilt of his knife before taking a step closer. For a moment I was afraid he knew who we were.  \nDrotte moved away, and the rest ofus stayed behind him. “Who are you, goodman? You're not soldiers.”  \n“We're the volunteers,” o","cbCair4AcsxpVWHF","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCair4AcsxpVWHF","pdf",804743,219,"English","# I RESURRECTION AND DEATH\n## II SEVERIAN\n## III THE AUTARCH'S FACE\n## IV TRISKELE\n## V THE PICTURE-CLEANER AND OTHERS\n## VI THE MASTER OF THE CURATORS\n## VII THE TRAITRESS\n## VIII THE CONVERSATIONALIST\n## IX THE HOUSE AZURE\n## X THE LAST YEAR\n## XI THE FEAST\n## XII THE TRAITOR\n## XIII THE LICTOR OF THRAX\n## XIV Terminus Est\n## XV BALDANDERS\n## XVI THE RAG SHOP\n## XVII THE CHALLENGE\n## XVIII THE DESTRUCTION OF THE ALTAR\n## XIX THE BOTANIC GARDENS\n## XX FATHER INIRE'S MIRRORS\n## XXI THE HUT IN THE JUNGLE\n## XXII DORCAS\n## XXIII HILDEGRIN\n## XXIV THE FLOWER OF DISSOLUION\n## XXV THE INN OF LOST LOVES\n## XXVI SENNET\n## XXVII IS HE DEAD?\n## XXVIII CARNIFEX\n## XXIX AGILUS\n## XXX NIGHT\n## XXXI THE SHADOW OF THE TORTURER\n## XXXII THE PLAY\n## XXXIII FIVE LEGS\n## XXXIV MORNING\n## XXXV HETHOR\n## APPENDIX","[{\"question\":\"What conflict happens at the gate in Chapter I?\",\"answer\":\"A small group tries to enter the Citadel at night, but armed men refuse entry without permission. 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