QUOTE : then a rumble in the earth stopped him. It stopped all of them. It started low at first, as if only a sound. But it increased to the point of causing wooden structures all around the city to shake. Then it became an enduring quake of large magnitude. The very walls they were standing on began to shake back and forth with such force that the soldiers could barely steady themselves. And then the ground in the center of the city split in half and a massive wave of energy swept over the city. Large portions of the outer walls of Jericho just crumbled to the ground like sandcastles in a desert wind. The inner wall was the second to fall under the wave. A large part of it tumbled over and crushed houses and inhabitants. Alyun, Jebir, and their guards were on part of that tumbling wall. They fell to the ground thirty feet below in a pile of dust and rubble.