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A small mudbrick watermill on an irrigation channel outside a seventh-century Central Asian oasis city: rough plastered walls, a low beamed ceiling of poplar poles, a wooden hopper and chute above the stones, grain sacks stacked to shoulder height, water noise coming through a hole in the floor. the fugitive's shoulder is against the stacked grain sacks, both on the same flour-dusted floor as the millstones. the hopper's chute ends directly over the centre of the upper millstone, grain running from one into the other. the wooden shaft rises from the centre of the upper stone into the ceiling beams, connecting stone and mechanism as one working machine. The millstones are about the width of a cartwheel; the whole room is small enough that the man and the machinery are within two paces of each other. 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