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,
21 while others rose up but were never able to govern.
22 Then I noticed that the twelve large wings and two of the small wings had disappeared.