After slaughtering the Extractors, Thor flew through the skies of the old industrial quarter of State X, the sun dropping behind the factory towers.
She hung high over rusted roofs and broken chimneys, carrying the Terrible Three inside bands of lightning that wrapped around their chains and kept them from falling.
This district had once held foundries, storage depots and processing plants, but most of the structures had been abandoned. Espel's directions led her past three collapsed warehouses and into a fenced compound where an old bunker sat beneath a hill of cracked stone.
Thor landed beside the entrance hard enough to shake dust from the rusted door.
Caelem hit the ground first and immediately started shouting.
"Hey! Lancet sent you, didn't he?" He dragged his Gracebreakers behind him while Thor pulled open the bunker door. She realized that months in prison hadn't weakened his mouth.
