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The orcas were farhi Tom was reminded of his short and disastrous career as an officer in the British army He would have been proud to have commanded a squad of men who performed in such an efficient and well-disciplined manner as the orcas The way they handled the boat was superb

He returned his attention to the city The sun had come out and he could see it more clearly His first iht of its power Noasn't so sure The buildings were huge and that hat he had noticed at first But, on closer inspection, so was very odd about them

As the boat came closer to shore he couldApart fron of life There were few boats at sea and little movement on land It was difficult to reconcile this with the size of the place

The reason soon beco host city The towering buildings were no more than e Soes of collapse

What he had previously seen as bridges were skyscrapers that reave way They were propped up by other buildings and sticking out at crazy angles He was reminded of fallen trees in a rainforest They re and cut the

No one had co There was a ss looked new They werearound them was in ruins The most likely explanation was that a catastrophe had occurred and wiped out s were pearly white as if coated in a substance that listen They shone in the afternoon sun and ca to the eye

Some reminded him of Indian architecture One would have rivalled the Taj Mahal Others werelines that mimicked nature They stood beside structures that seemed entirely functional Track ways spiralled up to nowhere Huge funnels rotated on the tops of towers Toht be