Chapter 36
Kansas City was nothing like she remembered it. The drive from the airport to LIGHTS headquarters was so depressing, Jo was tempted not to look out the window at all, but she couldn’t help herself. The entire city looked like a demilitarized zone--after a bombing--and she couldn’t help but remember how alive and full of adventurous things to do and places to go the city had once been. Now, it was full of crumbling buildings, cars that looked like they’d been bombed, boarded up windows on the dwellings that were empty and bars on the ones that were not.
Jamie had been right. Two days after Aaron’s cremation, when the team was ready to come back to the US, there were plenty of former LIGHTS team members or their allies prepared to help, including several European governments tha
