There were one hundred and ten when I arrived at El Teb Wells." He looked across at the Tracer, repeating: "One hundred and ten--when I arrived.

One fell the first night--a distant pillar far away on the horizon.

Four thousand years had it stood there.

And it fell--the first night of my arrival.

I heard it; the nights are cold at El Teb Wells, and I was lying awake, all a-shiver, counting the stars to make me sleep.