“In the city?” I was surprised. “After the explosion, won’t the people understand that the time has finally come to throw off their yoke?”
“I don’t advise you to try to explain it to them.”
I shrugged my shoulders, not understanding what he was leading to.
And right at that moment a deafening explosion reverberated. Flames puffed violently from the windows and doors of the building, breaking the door and window frames, grabbing everything within their reach. More and more rats had gathered on the roof. They comically jumped along the burning metal plate, climbing onto chimneys, sliding and flying down right into the flames. But when the rafters caught fire, they all rolled from the roof dead.
Several dozen creatures crazed from terror swiftly rushed past us.
In the air you could sense
