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Olam assumed that he was now much farther west than Valentinus and Perscors could be. This intuition did not disturb him, but he was troubled nevertheless, and as he studied the landscape, he began to understand the causes of his uneasiness.
He had come to the end of the Marcionite lands. Before him the Kenoma began, and beyond this muddy world ought to be the region of the devil-worshipping Arimaneans. There, amid horrors, Saklas had concealed the one place on Lucifer that was no part of his creation, the tower that Olam had built with his own hands, to mark the place of the Pleroma. And there, Olam resolved, Valentinus would be healed and renewed. Perhaps, he thought more dubiously, Perscors might win a release also, if he survived to get there.