Epilogue 2
Cadmus Smith followed Shade down into the lowest basement of the Facility. Shade walked before him upright and with a rigid back, almost like she was marching, which Cadmus appreciated, because it showed that her time in the military had not gone to waste.
Cadmus probably should have been back in his office in Washington, talking with President Plutarch and the military about the rebuilding of San Francisco, reading reports by his G-Men agents out in the field about the current state of the world, and other important duties that belonged to him as the Director of the Department of Superpowered and Extraterrestrial Beings.
But Cadmus had had this particular meeting on his calendar since last week, when Shade and Mr. Apollo returned to the Facility with both a report of what ha
