Until then, they lay in the palm of her hand-she stood, and it seemed the one power flowing through her from the circle was a manifestation of her power. You stay right here, palver.

Doc told them the rest in a few words. There were people milling around the car, trying to swarm across the road before the lights changed, and a boeing went sloping weightlessly down the night sky towards kai tak on the other side of the harbour.

That way, only one of them would die.