III, ch. 12

Reply: Item #1421618 from URTH at LISTS.BEST.COM@INET# Releasing the floodgates does =not= kill the prisoners of the vincula (not "jacal," that's the hut on the cliff near the wall where Jader lives) in Thrax. After all, "following the flood" Severian holds aloft the Claw, which burns its brightest, and all the dampened prisoners see it but not him. The Claw gives them =strength=. =mantis=