Scepter of Nowhere, part 4: The Spiral Tower

Scepter of Nowhere, part 4: The Spiral Tower, is now posted.

It was the work of titans. It was a spiral tower of bronze and black metal, bright as a looking glass, easily half a mile across at its base, twisted like the horn of a unicorn, rising course upon course. Like an aqueduct, there reared arch after black arch, holding gates wide enough that an army eager to storm heaven could have emerged.