High Priest Lemmy walked up the steep winding switchbacks that led up to the highest hill in the Temple Hill district. This was the eponymous "Hill" that the district was named for. The foundations of the old temple still stood, supporting the newer architecture of the Immutable Library which rose above them.

Lemmy's legs ached with exhaustion, and he was silently saying prayers to Rotosk, god of a thousand spinal columns to stave off the same pain in his back. He had already been tired after offic...