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"She learned nothing," Catcher said, words tight with anger "She tried to apply huy to a supernatural situation, and it failed She was bamboozled by the Order, and they failed All due respect to ourto do? They can’t use jets The dragon can fly and walk It can evade anything they send at it They put a plane in the air, and she’ll blow it out of the sky, and kill everyone unlucky enough to be standing beneath it They’ll end up settingit in the process"

"They’ll use aret it on the ground in order to contain the collateral dae, at least as much as they can"

"So they’ll roll tanks down Michigan Avenue? Shoot mortars at Willis Tower? She’ll destroyto take down the dragon They need pinpointed ic"

"She’ll have decided--or the polls will have decided for her--that a joint huht was a failure because ere involved"

"Last night was a failure because she involved the wrong people"

"She had a randfather said "The probleer--"

"And scalier," Jeff put in

My grandfather nodded "So it was a failure, and she’s going in the other direction"

"We stay hoives the city to the uns"

"That’s about the way of it," randfather said He rose, water bottle still in hand "I suppose we should be going"

"Going?" Jeff asked He looked crestfallen, buht

My grandfather’s s to step in and try to fix this nonsense, we’d better hit the road before the CPD coe as she can as quickly as she can, because she’ll want your attention Give it to her, and take her down"

He walked to the door, leaving all of us staring after hiets her

"Apparently so," Ethan said, and glanced down at me "Sentinel, is your sword ready?"

"And eager," I said "Let’s go"

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