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He barked out a peal of cynical laughter, broken inter fit "You expect fire control after what you saw on the ether?" He bellowed, his voice echoing hollowly in the flame-strewn silence "Maybe you should fire me now!"

Despite the flames that licked ravenously at his protective barrier, Tescadji felt strangely cold after his tirade But another strange thing, he realized, was the fact that he could hear no a was terribly wrong He could feel it With this much devastation, there was no way that there could not be a response from local authorities

"It's unbelievable what a little knowledge can do," a voice said out of nowhere Tescadji's training prevented hi no source for the voice left hiarbled, as if so it from the bowels of a deep, invisible cave

"Who's there?" Tescadji said to the nothingness "Who are you? Show yourself!"

"I'll be ive me a moment," The voice replied, this time closer and clearer than before "I hate to travel this way, but it being an e the voice

The world in front of him bent and warped, as if it were a reflection set upon recently troubled water The oscillating ripples then bent into a slender, hu as it came ever forward, into Jenius

"I told HQ that one man wouldn't be able to stop this," Jenius said, dis the ruin "I'm sorry that you had to be here to see this, Tescadji; I really ans of life?" Tescadji said, steadfastly holding onto the possibility, however faint, that there could be somebody -anybody- still alive Elves, after all, could sense life, and so if anyone could tell for certain, Jenius would

But the elf put finality on that hope's extinguish, Jenius sadly shook his head

"I'm sorry"

"Bloody hell!" Tescadji spat out, and kicked at a nearby slab of concrete rubble "All of the about it!" Tescadji snarled bitterly, pacing back and forth across the concrete and marble streay "It's not like I didn't try, chief, I …"