A twenty-foot ribbon of road veered into the room at an insane angle. The railing was twisted, but there were the stalks of street lights still intact along the edges.
"Do you think we could climb that?" asked Geo. "It doesn't look too steep."
"For what?" Urson wanted to know.
"To get some place high enough to see if there's anything that looks like a temple."
"Oh," said Urson in a reconciled voice.
In general the walk was in good shape. Occasional sections of railing had twisted away, but the road itself mounted surely between the sheering faces of the buildings on either side of them through advancing sunset.
It branched before them and they went left. It branched again and again they avoided the right-handed road. A sign, half the length of a three masted ship, hung lopsidedly above them on a building to one side.
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As they rounded the corner of the building, Snake suddenly stopped and put his hand to his head.