" "What?" She yawned again unable to stave off sleep much longer. "That men have always dreamed of being the rulers of the Inner Darkness and some finally made it only to have it.

Individuals. " "Maybe " the Barnacle suggested "they're just busybodies. There are humans like that. Psychopathic dogooders always sticking in their noses never letting well enough alone. " "I don't think so " I argued back at him. "If they are frying to help us I'd guess it's a religion with them. Like the old friars who wandered all over Europe in the early days. Like the Good Samaritan. Like the Salvation Army. " But he wouldn't have it that way..
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The people were puzzled and perplexed in their attempts to understand it. It seems that the citadel of Athens had been formerly surrounded by a wooden palisade. Some thought that this was what was referred to by the "wooden walls " and that the meaning of the oracle was that they must rebuild the palisade and then retreat to the citadel when the Persians should approach and defend themselves there. Others conceived that the phrase referred to ships and that the oracle meant to direct them to meet their enemies with a fleet upon the sea. Salamis which was also mentioned by the oracle was an island not far from Athens being west of the city between it and the Isthmus of Corinth. Those who supposed that by the "wooden walls" was denoted the fleet thought that Salamis might have been alluded to as the place.
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