14. When its rule was coming to an end and it was about to vanish like the first wing,
15. a voice said to it,
16. “Listen, you have ruled the world for a long time, and I want you to hear this message before you disappear:
17. no one after you will rule as long as you did — not even half as long.”
18. The third wing rose up and governed as the earlier ones had done; then it also vanished.
19. The same thing happened to all the other wings: one after the other they rose to power and then vanished.
20. I kept looking, and after a while the other small wings on the right side rose up to seize power. Some of them governed briefly and quickly disappeared,