The Clock is well past the eleven now. There is perhaps half an hour before the quake is due.
But the more interesting sight is
outside. The battle-weary and wounded have returned, perhaps not triumphant against the army set upon them, but with the completion of their objective.
Urza accepts the Armageddon Key -- a crystalline sphere pulsing with the lights of the five manas -- from Gavroche and sprints in the back door, coming to stand before the Clock itself.
Now he just has to figure out how to use the thing.
[ooc: main thread is plotlocked, but reaction tags are welcome.]