Pieter de Hooch paintings

Pieter de Hooch paintings
Pietro Perugino paintings
Peter Paul Rubens paintings
incidents at the Power Lines, Classmate X had arrived on Great Mall, presumably to sever the remaining diplomatic ties between East and West Campus. I half expected Stoker to wait for me, but as I entered the lobby of Tower Hall I saw him drive off towards a squadron of his troopers roaring up in ragged files from the direction of Main Gate.
The elevator-guard frowned at my detention-suit, consulted an empty clipboard, and forbade me the Belfry-lift.
"Don't you remember me?" I asked pleasantly.
"I remember you, all right." His tone was not cordial. "But your name ain't on my list any more. In fact, there ain't any list, since you flunked up the college. Nobody's allowed up there."
I asked where Dr. Eierkopf was, in that case -- for I'd assumed Stoker was lying to me -- and was told that he was indeed still in the Belfry -- or at least his skeleton must be: the lift had not been summoned since Croaker's desertion, the guard said (not without grim satisfaction); as nobody was allowed access to the Clockworks without the Chancellor's