Gil is asleep when his father burns Mechanicsburg and his Heterodyne and its Knights of Jove and its thousands of conspiracies and monsters to the ground. He won’t wake up for five days.
He won’t believe it for seven.
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The top of Mechanicsburg burns – the houses, the shops, the Great Hospital, every single stone aboveground. It burns actinic blue for days on end. The only survivors are in the tunnels.
They go a lot deeper, a lot farther than anyone may have thought.
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When she’s twenty-six Agatha kills Klaus herself, using her own original body as bait. (Nothing else would have worked.) Her cloned body works fine, if a bit stiffly, and she has to restart her warrior training from square zero. But she won.
There is no Europa left.