Episode 17.
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Chapter 7. The time pleat closes. Clouds of butterflies ascend from roosts in trees deep in an emerald valley; Shimmer does his best to guard them. A millennium goes by. Raiders return, but are defeated: peace. De Quincey: How can there have been so much of time? Wordsworth: Have we perfected our natures over time, or was there one step up?
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