You want the see the citadel, don't you? All the way below...

( Traipsing, half walking, half hopping, he loiters near the telescope, peering through the lens. ) It's a really long way down! So long. This tower is big, it's the tallest ever. It's as tall as... as seven, or eight houses! Or fourteen! Or...

( ...twenty? Ah, but to be young, with no true grasp of mathematics and architecture. )

But it doesn't show what's below prettier, just because it's tall. It can't make sickness go away.