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- Rusko smiled back, taking the young man's words as a compliment. "So," he said, looking up at the titanic figure, "does it work?"
- "Not yet." Urza pulled a chain from around his neck.
- Rusko saw that the chain was attached to a large gem, a dark ruby flecked with streaks of multicolored fire. Urza climbed the step-ladder until he was level with the great creature's head, and pushed the gem inside.
- Standing on tiptoe, Rusko could see the young man touching the ruby stone to the dead, inert gem in the creature's head.
- The gem in the creature's head began to glow, slowly, erratically at first, then with a stronger beacon, until it was as strong as the stone Urza held. It radiated with a sapphire light shot through with sparks of white.
- It was, thought the clock maker, like watching someone set a fire by placing a burning stick against another.
- As the new gem glowed, the creature began to move. It raised one arm, then lowered it, then raised it again. The gears and pulleys at the machine's arm and shoulder whined softly as they moved. Urza lowered the creature's visor. The light of the gem shone through its eyeholes.
- "There," said Urza. "Now the machine has a new soul as well."
- ***
- The Brother's War, Chapter 6
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