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As always, when evening fell, the sentinels shut the city gates. But closing the gates only served to imprison the fear within the city. As a terrible expectation of doom settled over the silent, lightless houses like a deadly vapor, the darkness descended over Rome—once glorious but now fallen and trembling in fear—like a shroud. Yet the stars shone as carelessly as ever, heedless of the people’s supplications, and the crescent moon swayed silently in the sky as though no barbarian threat existed at all. The sleepless and helpless Romans began to await the arrival of the Vandals, like a condemned man awaiting the fall of the raised axe.