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‘How far away is the fire?’ I ask the twins as alk into the adobe-style building that Obi used as his headquarters

‘The south end of Mountain Vieas starting to get smoky e left,’ says Dee ‘We can check out the surveillance videos and see how far it’s gone’

Surveillance videos

‘Can we h the surveillance syste ‘We could probably h the laptops and cell phones that we use as cah’

‘Are any of them still here?’

‘They never left the coet theet the word out,’ I say as alk down the hallway to the co on’

The computer room is cluttered with piles of portable solar panels, cables, cell phones, tablets, laptops, and batteries of all sizes and shapes The trash can is overfloith ey-bar wrappers Half a dozen engineers look up as Dee-Du what happened in the school yard

‘We know,’ says one bleary-eyed guy wearing a T-shirt with a picture of Godzilla crushing Tokyo ‘We watched it through the cauys left, but the rest of us want to help What can we do?’

‘You guys are the best,’ says Dee

It doesn’t take long before the engineers are ready for me to make an announceh, we record els are co as many people as they can The south end of the peninsula has been cut off by fire I repeat, the south end of the peninsula has been cut off by fire Go to the Golden Gate Bridge – we’re sending people there to help you cross If you’re willing and able, coive the others a chance at life We could use all the fighters we can get’

I take a deep breath ‘For you gangdo you think you can last on your own? We could use soood street soldiers’ It hits me that I sound like Obi ‘We’re all on the sa today when touys out? Why not band together and have a real shot? At the very least, let’s go out with a bang and show thee’

I steel , everyone will know you’re shao after the helpless ones There would be no glory in that, and you’ll just eht will be at the East Bay Bridge Everyone worth fighting will be there, and I proe you to come find us’

I pause, not sure how to end it ‘This is Penryn Young, Daughter of Man, Killer of Angels’

That phrase, Daughter of Man, will always re all of us tonight along with his buddies who I thought could be ry lion to be her fuzzy pet instead of being her killer

I think I sounded confident, but my hands feel frozen and els title,’ says Du