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- “Oops, time to go!” I say, concluding that if the nanobots’ origins aren’t here in this room, I’d better run. Literally.
- I’m out the window and web-slinging myself around the side of the building faster than I can hear Starling demand, “Get him!”
- I’m running along the side of the building, holding my web latched to the roof, because I have a plan. Well, kinda. At least, it should work in theory. I run, and run, and run, shortening my web as I go so I’m sprinting in a spiral higher and higher into the sky, my body parallel to the ground. As I go, I’m glancing through the windows. The building is so narrow, it’s easy to see straight through to the other side as I run.
- And, with all three of them in a trail behind me, we’ve completely circled the building. I look down and can see Shadow’s beacon of glowing yellow hair just below me, and I decide this is the moment. I double back, darting up and back the way I came, and then plunging straight down. Hollowclaw dives right behind me. I watch as I slip past Shadow, face to face with them for a split second, just long enough for me to flash them a smile, and then plunge as I hear Hollowclaw and Shadow collide in the air above me.
- The sound of metal crumpling around itself, twisting and tangling together… it sounds like a car crash. And when I see the smoking, sparking, mangled mess that is intertwined Shadow and Hollowclaw falling several stories, their screams ringing out, I shoot my web between this building and the rooftop of the building adjacent, wrapping them up in a big ol’ mangled cocoon of smoking wing contraptions still strapped to their backs.
- “Good luck squirming out of that,” I say before turning my attention back to Starling.
- ***
- Chapter 17
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