I. The Pause Before the WallAnd the elder approached the great wall, stopping a couple of steps before touching it and breathing deeply. The wall, cold and vast, seemed like the record of all the time that had passed in the external world. But upon exhaling, memory transported him to a singular instant: "Nunca se me olvidará el día en que naciste... Podrán pasar mil años pero siempre vivirás en mi corazón." (What, in the non-linear language of the soul, means: A thousand ages may pass, yet th...