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JUAN FRANCISCO BLANCO
The titanic stone-bodied creature, known only to a few High
Spirits as Zipakná, stopped dead in his tracks on the sea bottom.
He cocked his square head and listened, feeling as well as hearing
the immense noise from his Staff of Power right through the
water. The precious staff had been handed down to him from a
thousand generations of his unique kind. As Huracán would tell
Tital in a private talk at a later time, this had occurred over a time
period of more than five billion Earth years. In the Staff of Power
was unimaginable power for the one who held it if he was able to
chant the ancient inscriptions that spiraled a