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None of them could tell afterward what Castle Gargath
looked like, since the appearance of the castle shifted
constantly. First it was a massive fortress with four tall,
stalwart towers topped by battlements. As they watched in
amazement, the towers swelled out and spiraled upward
into graceful minarets. Then the towers melted together,
forming one gigantic dome that separated into four square
towers once more. While all this was going on, turrets
sprouted from the walls like fungi, windows blinked open
and shut, a drawbridge over a moat became a bower of
gray roses over a still, gray pond.
"The power of the Graygem," Dougan remarked. "'The
power of the Graygem,'" Tanin mimicked sarcastically. He
shook his fist at the dwarf. "I'm getting so sick of hearing
about that blasted rock that I - "
"I meant that I've figured out what's going on!" Palin
interrupted.
"Well, what?" Sturm asked miserably. "They don't want
us to go, apparently. Yet they threaten to kill us if we try to
turn back! They take our clothes . . ."
In addition to losing their armor and their weapons, he
and Tanin had been stripped of their clothes; the chief
having discovered that the armor chafed without anything
underneath it
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