​     While overhead:

​     The bird came apart. 

     Technolica and Mother Naturia dropped to the ice, both still five hundred feet tall.

​     Silveria floated over their heads as a cloud. 

     Above her, the shroud that was The Fours hovered like the most threatening storm cloud ever. 

     A shroud with four heads. 

     A head at each corner. 

     A head in one corner roared with rage. 

​     A head in another corner laughed.

     A third head spoke quietly, yet emphatically. 

​     The head in the fourth corner said nothing at all. 

     Alison had never seen anything more terrifying in her life.


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