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Introductions and explanations were handled in the few minutes they were on the water, but all conversations ended abruptly when they reached the Tower of London. The sun was almost fully risen now, and the absolute horror of what was left of the world was in full view. ‘Of all the awful things I’ve seen,’ Vicky said with tears running down her dirt-streaked cheeks, ‘I don’t think anything hurts as much as this.’
The dank hotel where they’d lived in squalor had all but disappeared, reduced to a mound of rubble. On the other side of the Tower, the waterfront apartment building where the group had originally based themselves was still standing but was now just a blackened skeletal frame. Behind it, Tower Place had been similarly ravaged. There were no trees anymore, just lines of stunte
