Kevin's Watch doesn't go straight up. It leans out from the mountain. It is a \\ not a ||. So the stairs go staight up the steep slope on the upper side.iquestor wrote:When you have a column that is 1000 feet high, how could the stairs not wrap around? the graphic doesnt make any sense, it looks more like a ladder there. I always thought they wrapped.. I looked at LFB's description, it doesnt seem to say.
Obliquely: not perpendicular; inclinedIn [u]Lord Foul's Bane[/u] was wrote:There he saw that he was on the tip of a slim splinter of stone-at least five hundred feet long-that pointed obliquely up from the base of the cliff like a rigid finger accusing the sky. Stairs had been cut into the upper surface of the shaft, but it was as steep as a ladder.
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